The Detroit Lions really needed a safety in this draft. For days we kept wondering when it was going to come. Would the Lions take Kyle Hamilton in the first round? Jaquan Brisker on day two? What about Smoke Monday on day three? In the end, the Lions passed on all of them and got their man in round three when they drafted Illinois safety Kerby Joseph.
In order to learn more about the Lions' new safety, we enlisted the help of Illinois football beat writer Bob Asmussen from the Champaign News-Gazette to help us out.