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Saturday open thread: Did the Detroit Lions’ first-round trade work out for the best?

The dust has settled on the Detroit Lions’ blockbuster trade in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft. All of the picks involved in the trade have now been used on a player, giving us a little more insight into what the Lions could have had if they decided, instead, to let the board fall to them.

As a reminder, here are the picks involved in the trade, and the players subsequently drafted at each position.

Lions got:

  • Pick 12 — WR Jameson Williams
  • Pick 46 — DL Josh Paschal

Vikings got:

That alone provides an interesting comparison.