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Draft Selections
Quinyon Mitchell Head Shot
PICK: 30 RND: 1 (DET)
Quinyon Mitchell
CB Toledo
Payton Wilson Head Shot
PICK: 62 RND: 2 (DET)
Payton Wilson
LB North Carolina State
Cooper Beebe Head Shot
PICK: 73 RND: 3 (DET)
Cooper Beebe
OG Kansas State
Brenden Rice Head Shot
PICK: 93 RND: 3 (DET)
Brenden Rice
WR USC
Austin Booker Head Shot
PICK: 167 RND: 5 (DET)
Austin Booker
DL-EDGE Kansas
Brevyn Spann-Ford Head Shot
PICK: 208 RND: 6 (DET)
Brevyn Spann-Ford
TE Minnesota
Dwight McGlothern Head Shot
PICK: 251 RND: 7 (DET)
Dwight McGlothern
CB Arkansas
Draft Grade — Lions
Overall B
ValueB- NeedA- TradesB- FutureB-
The Lions cashed the board's mistake on Rice: B.

The board owed the Lions one, and it paid up: Brenden Rice, the No. 71 name on the board, sitting there at the 93rd pick like a gift left on the doorstep.

They punted on safety, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest. The Wilson pick is the one the value grade keeps tripping over. They left with cornerback solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

The weekend tilted hard toward the defense.

Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.

Pick Analysis
Pick30 Rnd1 Quinyon Mitchell
In pick 30 they get an island corner. Exactly the need they had to hit.
Pick62 Rnd2 Payton Wilson
They went early on Payton Wilson in the Round 2 slot, and the value did not follow. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Pick73 Rnd3 Cooper Beebe
No drama and no debate, Cooper Beebe went about where he belonged in No. 73. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick93 Rnd3 Brenden Rice
Circle this one: Brenden Rice at the 93rd pick is a fall that decides a draft. A need, and now a little less of one.
Pick167 Rnd5 Austin Booker
Austin Booker at slot 167 is money in the bank, a edge rusher taken below his worth. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Pick208 Rnd6 Brevyn Spann-Ford
A premium they did not need to pay, Brevyn Spann-Ford a notch or two before his time. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Pick251 Rnd7 Dwight McGlothern
By-the-book stuff, Dwight McGlothern at the 251st overall pick squarely in line with his ranking. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.