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Draft Selections
Jer'Zhan Newton Head Shot
PICK: 29 RND: 1 (DET)
Jer'Zhan Newton
DL Illinois
Chris Braswell Head Shot
PICK: 61 RND: 2 (DET)
Chris Braswell
LB-EDGE Alabama
Brenden Rice Head Shot
PICK: 73 RND: 3 (DET)
Brenden Rice
WR USC
Julian Pearl Head Shot
PICK: 164 RND: 5 (DET)
Julian Pearl
OT Illinois
Beau Brade Head Shot
PICK: 201 RND: 6 (DET)
Beau Brade
S Maryland
Dwight McGlothern Head Shot
PICK: 205 RND: 6 (DET)
Dwight McGlothern
CB Arkansas
Frank Gore Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 249 RND: 7 (DET)
Frank Gore Jr.
RB Southern Miss
Draft Grade — Lions
Overall B
ValueB+ NeedB TradesB- FutureB-
The Lions let Brade fall and pounced. Final grade: B.

Somebody in pick 201 was going to get robbed, and it turned out to be the rest of the league. The Lions sat still while Beau Brade, the No. 134 name on the board, slid all the way to them, then sprinted to the podium.

The Pearl pick is the one the value grade keeps tripping over. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped linebacker, which is a strange place to end up. They left with cornerback solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

The trenches got the money picks, top to bottom.

In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the linebacker spot they never got to.

Pick Analysis
Pick29 Rnd1 Jer'Zhan Newton
In the 29th pick they get a disruptive interior force at a price that makes it sweeter.
Pick61 Rnd2 Chris Braswell
Chris Braswell at slot 61 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Pick73 Rnd3 Brenden Rice
They left a pile of value on the table to take Brenden Rice this early at the 73rd overall pick. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Pick164 Rnd5 Julian Pearl
Julian Pearl in the Round 5 slot is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick201 Rnd6 Beau Brade
Somehow Beau Brade was still sitting there in Round 6, Pick 26, and they pounced on premier safety value. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Pick205 Rnd6 Dwight McGlothern
A top-tier cornerback at a bargain, Dwight McGlothern in pick No. 205, plain and simple. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Pick249 Rnd7 Frank Gore Jr.
Steal is underselling it; Frank Gore Jr. at pick 249 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.