Expect the Lions to draft at least one WR
It won’t be in the first round, not even after any hypothetical trade back, but the Lions have done quite a bit of homework on the wide receiver class this year. And it’s a spectacular group of wideouts, full of future NFL starters that will fall into the middle rounds.
One key name to watch is a player who had himself a great combine: Baylor’s Denzel Mims. The Lions worked with Mims at the Senior Bowl and came away very impressed. Mims said of Patricia, “he’s a great coach” during his podium interview, too. He’s got the size, the toughness and the ability to make the first tackler miss that the Lions covet in Darrell Bevell’s offense.
Mims isn’t the only wideout the Lions have interest in. Even some players who didn’t work out, whether because of injury (Florida’s Van Jefferson, son of ex-Lions WR/coach Shawn) or choice (Clemson’s Tee Higgins), are wideouts you’re going to see linked to Detroit in the coming weeks. Everything I have witnessed and heard makes me believe the Lions’ interest in a WR in rounds 2-4 is very real.