The Detroit Lions hit it big in the "eighth round" of the NFL draft last year, signing two cornerbacks among their undrafted free agent class who played significant roles as rookies.
AJ Parker won the starting slot cornerback in Week 1, and Jerry Jacobs emerged as starting outside corner before tearing his ACL late in the season.
"Dan (Campbell) and I have always said you can call us the land of opportunity," Lions general manager Brad Holmes said in his pre-draft news conference. "We don’t care where you come from. We don’t care where you got drafted, what the depth chart looks like where, ‘Oh, this guy’s a vet,’ and all that.