On Thursday night, general manager Brad Holmes and the rest of Detroit Lions brass made the pick. The safe pick, but the right pick.
That’s right, I said it: the right pick.
They wasted no time, turning the pick in shortly after the Lions were on the clock at No. 7 overall. After all the talk about Detroit entertaining trade offers for their first-round pick, and even learning about their interest in moving up for the No. 4 pick to select LSU’s Ja’Marr Chase, the Lions stood pat and selected Oregon’s wunderkind Penei Sewell.