With less than a month left in the 2021 regular season, many have already started heavily focusing on the 2022 NFL draft. With an ESPN SportsCenter mock draft special on ESPN2 at 5 p.m. ET on the docket for Tuesday, Todd McShay published his first Mock Draft of the new draft cycle.
For his selections, McShay used ESPN’s power index to project the draft order, which slotted the Lions with picks No. 1 and No. 25, the latter being via the Los Angeles Rams selection acquired by the Lions via the Matthew Stafford trade.