Pirate Rick'S MOCK DRAFT
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Draft Selections
Taliese Fuaga Head Shot
PICK: 29 RND: 1 (DET)
Taliese Fuaga
OT Oregon State
Malachi Corley Head Shot
PICK: 61 RND: 2 (DET)
Malachi Corley
WR Western Kentucky
Kamren Kinchens Head Shot
PICK: 73 RND: 3 (DET)
Kamren Kinchens
S Miami (FL)
Jarrian Jones Head Shot
PICK: 164 RND: 5 (DET)
Jarrian Jones
CB Florida State
Logan Lee Head Shot
PICK: 201 RND: 6 (DET)
Logan Lee
DL Iowa
Zion Tupuola-Fetui Head Shot
PICK: 205 RND: 6 (DET)
Zion Tupuola-Fetui
DE-EDGE Washington
Ethan Driskell Head Shot
PICK: 249 RND: 7 (DET)
Ethan Driskell
OT Marshall
Draft Grade — Lions
Overall B
ValueB NeedB+ TradesB- FutureB-
The Lions won the night they stopped Jones from sliding. Grade: B.

Every so often the board makes a mistake, and the Lions were there to profit. Jarrian Jones, the No. 136 name on the board, should have been long gone before the Round 5 slot. A dependable weekend that grades out a B.

They are betting Driskell proves the room right and everyone else wrong. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through linebacker.

Good work on the whole, with linebacker the one box left unchecked.

Pick Analysis
Pick29 Rnd1 Taliese Fuaga
In No. 29 they get a plug-and-play piece up front, outstanding value to boot. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Pick61 Rnd2 Malachi Corley
No drama and no debate, Malachi Corley went about where he belonged in the 61st pick. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Pick73 Rnd3 Kamren Kinchens
A tidy bit of business in the Round 3 slot, where Kamren Kinchens graded well above the range. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Pick164 Rnd5 Jarrian Jones
They barely believed it either: Jarrian Jones still on the board at the 164th overall pick. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick201 Rnd6 Logan Lee
They liked Logan Lee enough to skip the value, taking him in slot 201. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Pick205 Rnd6 Zion Tupuola-Fetui
They jumped the gun on Zion Tupuola-Fetui, taking him earlier than his grade liked. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick249 Rnd7 Ethan Driskell
They paid up for Ethan Driskell at pick 249 when waiting would have done the job. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.