General Manager Brad Holmes has built the Lions into a winner in recent years and that earns him the opportunity to take some chances in the draft.
Holmes took one of them in the third round this year. He dealt the 102nd pick and two 2026 third-rounders to move up to No. 70 in order to select wide receiver Isaac TeSlaa out of Arkansas. The Lions got a couple of other mid-round picks in the deal, but the success of the trade will fall on a wideout who few expected to go so early.
TeSlaa brings a lot of size to the slot, which would be a different look for the Lions, and worked out well at the Combine, which led Holmes to give him a different grade than others and he said on 97.