The Detroit Lions have need of a skilled running back. They also need some help on the offensive line, the defensive line, linebacker and another corner back would be nice too.
That’s not a tiny list. As a matter of fact, that is a list that will pretty much take up all of the Lions resources to fill this offseason.
So when a friend of mine turned to me the other day and said, ‘you know trading up to get Saquon Barkley would be totally worth it.’ My response was about to be an abrupt disagreement, when he added, ‘just block out the negatives of the cost to get him and think only of the positives of having him in the Lions backfield.