For the majority of the offseason, Detroit Lions fans debated which edge defender the team should take with the second overall pick. Early on, the debate centered around Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux and Michigan’s Aidan Hutchinson, with Georgia’s Travon Walker working his way into the conversation late. An argument could be easily made for any of them. Thibodeaux was the most polished pass rusher of the group. Walker had unreal athletic traits whose potential could be highest of them all. Hutchinson is a well-balanced player with an unteachable motor.
We’ll never be certain which of these players the Lions’ preferred most—although it obviously wasn’t Thibodeaux, and Dan Campbell’s reaction in the war room seems to suggest he favored Hutchinson—but many have suggested the Lions got the best of the trio.