Allen Park – Nineteen of the 90 players in training camp for the Lions on Thursday played at Southeastern Conference schools, the most of any college conference, with 18 coming from the Big Ten.
Heading the Lions’ list are a quartet of players apiece from Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin.
It all makes sense so far: High-quality football, often stylistically intertwined with what the Lions are trying to build, maybe with a dash of geographic bias in the Big Ten’s case.