Deciphering the importance of which teams attended which schools pro days can often be a fruitless task, as the progressive movement towards virtual information has become more popular in the NFL scouting world. Teams spend months gathering information on prospects, scouting games, watching film, conducting interviews, and studying the Combine, but you can often gain more information seeing a player practice in person, which is the true value of pro days.
The Detroit Lions have sent a wealth of personnel—scouts, coaches, front office executives—to nearly every pro day they can, but every once in a while there is an obvious connection worth recognizing.