For a second straight year, the Lions mostly passed on adding any pass rush through the draft. Six picks came in and only two went to defense, with only Alabama defensive lineman Da'Shawn Hand coming in the fourth round to help out the front seven. He had nine sacks in four college seasons.
General manager Bob Quinn said that was just the way the board worked. It might have had something to do with Boston College's Harold Landry, a popular Lions mock, getting flagged by teams for knee and back issues and falling from his top-20 projection into the second round.