Fourth round: Bradlee Anae, Utah
Another player who shined for the Lions coaches during Senior Bowl week, Anae wins with power-to-speed rushes. He’s an attack dog, always playing offense as a defender.
As you might expect, that approach doesn’t always work. It does command blocking attention and makes the physical 257-pounder difficult to play against. So does Anae’s variety of pass rush moves and quickness at which he can string them together. He’s especially good at chucking tight ends trying to get out into routes, something the Lions coaching staff will appreciate.
Anae would be a round or two higher based on game tape, but he is a limited athlete. His combine performance was quietly quite poor, finishing below average in most metric testing:
In short, Anae is a solid football player but one with a limited ceiling due to his relative lack of athleticism.