The NFL Draft can often by defined just as much by the player you don’t take as the one you did choose to select. Case in point, passing over Aaron Donald and Odell Beckham Jr. will likely haunt Martin Mayhew for the rest of his life, even though over the course of his time at general manager he drafted the best Lions in the modern era: Matthew Stafford, Ndamukong Suh, and Darius Slay.
So we kick off Part 2 of our 2022 NFL Draft superlatives for the Detroit Lions by identifying a pick we wish current Lions general manager Brad Holmes would’ve made last weekend.