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What if the Detroit Lions had drafted Aaron Donald?

In case you missed it, it’s “What If?” week at SB Nation, where we imagine scenarios that could have gone differently for our favorite teams. Our first installment imagined a scenario in which the Lions had re-signed Ndamukong Suh after the 2014 season.

No football decision over the past five years has tormented the Detroit Lions fanbase more than the decision general manager Martin Mayhew made on May 8, 2014.

The Lions, coming off a collapse of epic proportions in the 2013 season, were in need of one piece to push them back into NFC North contention.