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Detroit Lions offensive line 'can be as good as we want to be' after Penei Sewell addition

Hank Fraley was ready to head home to Minnesota to see his family during UCLA's early-October bye in 2017 when he made an abrupt change of plans to visit one of the top high school offensive linemen in the country, Utah prep star Penei Sewell.

Fraley, then an assistant at UCLA, made a lasting impression on Sewell that day as one of the few coaches who traveled to Sewell's out-of-the-way high school to see him play.

"I knew he was different because he was one of the few that did that," Sewell said earlier this month.