For the second straight year, we’ll spend the summer counting down the top 20 players on the Lions roster in anticipation of training camp.
This isn’t meant to be a gauge of how players have performed in the past or what they did last year. This is more a prediction of how valuable each player will be to the Lions this fall, accounting for the role they’ll play on the team. Left tackle Taylor Decker would have been a top-five selection had he not tore the labrum in his right shoulder in early June. With Decker potentially out for half the season or more, his role has diminished to the point that he does not appear on this list.