![]() How much better will Gibbs and Montgomery be? It seems like an incremental benefit at best for a lot of draft capital and a fairly big contract for a 26-year-old running back that had fewer rushing yards and yards per carry than Williams last season.Īnd at tight end, was it really a good move to trade Hockenson, who earned his second Pro Bowl nod last season after finishing second in receiving yards among tight ends? Who knows what the future holds for LaPorta, but history suggests that tight ends can be notoriously slow developing in the NFL. Jamaal Williams had over 1,000 yards rushing last season. Swift averaged 5.5 yards per carry in 2022 and 8.1 yards per reception and 931 yards from scrimmage. Both Swift and Hockenson are good players, but apparently didn’t have a future in Dan Campbell’s vision for the Lions. Hooker may be an eventual replacement for Jared Goff, who’s still just 28. Gibbs replaces D’Andre Swift, who was traded, and LaPorta replaces TJ Hockenson, whom the Lions traded to the Vikings before the trade deadline last year. The other perplexing aspect of the Lions draft is that they appear to be replacements for players the Lions traded in their prime. Using top draft picks on positions that don’t command as big second contracts is not a good use of draft capital. Antoine Green, WR, North Carolina (#219 overall)ĭetroit’s draft was polarizing among pundits as the consensus was that while it was generally thought that they picked good players with their top picks, the positional value was extremely poor.Colby Sorsdahl, T, William & Mary (#152 overall).Brodric Martin, NT, Western Kentucky (#96 overall).Hendon Hooker, QB, Tennessee (#68 overall).Brian Branch, S/CB, Alabama (#45 overall).Jahmyr Gibbs, RB, Alabama (#12 overall). ![]() In addition to the Lions’ free agency moves, they also had the third-most draft capital in the league, which they used to draft the following players: The Lions were also hit with suspensions to multiple players and staff for violating league gambling rules, most notably last year’s top draft pick Jameson Williams, who is suspended for the first six games of this season.
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