While I normally start off my first mock of the draft season with, “It’s that time of year,” I think it’s important to note that it’s always kind of that time of year. The draft season never stops, it just cycles over to the next one. For the Detroit Lions, picking at third overall brings back those feelings of inevitability that we used to deal with on the regular. The first couple picks lock in very early and it leaves the Lions with basically one of only a small handful of choices early on.
Since this mock presumes no trades (out of convenience, but if it helps just imagine that nobody likes Bob Quinn), the first pick probably won’t come as much of a shock.