USAT: Lions Wire audio clip

USAT: Lions Wire

Feb 9, 2022

In the first edition of the Detroit Lions mock offseason, we played it pretty straight. There were no huge surprises in players being cut or re-signed, no wild free agent pipe dreams, no out-of-left-field projections in the draft. - Things change here in the second edition. Let’s have some fun! - As with the first edition, this is not a prediction of what will happen. It’s an idea of a pathway the Lions front office could choose to travel, a basic blueprint for a way to move the team (hopefully) forward. To be frank, there are moves included that I think are absurdly stupid, but NFL teams prove capable of that sort of decision-making all the time. - In this edition, there are three trades. One involves exporting a player, another brings in a splashy new face that directly impacts the draft and free agency plans, and the third happens during the mock draft.

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