DENVER -- The most dramatic moments for the Detroit Lions on Sunday came hundreds of miles and two time zones away from Empower Field at Mile High. For the purposes this flailing Lions season and everything that is to come in the future, what happened in Maryland and Miami mattered much more.
As games between fellow top-5 draft contenders went to overtime -- actually overlapping with a quarter of Detroit’s 27-17 loss to Denver on Sunday -- there were questions about how high or how low the Lions could go, at least in terms of the 2020 NFL draft.