Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes has said time and time again that they don’t truly approach the draft with immediate needs in mind. He said as much recently during the owners meetings two weeks ago.
“We’re not a needs-based drafting team,” Holme said. “We just get the best football player for us so we don’t really get too fixated on positions.”
Despite that, most of the conversation with the Lions’ first-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft has been about trench players. However, in The Athletic’s Dane Brugler’s seven-round mock draft, he took the Lions’ anti-needs based approach to an extreme.