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Detroit Lions draft regrets: Top 5 ‘ones who got away’

Everyone knows that even as the NFL Draft process gets more and more intense by the year, it’s still an inexact science, with a lot that can go wrong.

Through the years, the Detroit Lions have gotten plenty of ridicule (a lot of it deserved) for some of their highly publicized ‘busts’, guys like Andre Ware, Charles Rogers, Joey Harrington, and Mike Williams that entered with great expectations but flopped once they reached the league.

However, when looking at the ‘what ifs’ when thinking back to draft days that went wrong, it’s just as interesting to take a look at some of the future legends that our team didn’t pick.