The Detroit Lions have never been good drafters. After looking through draft class after draft class for a franchise with one playoff win in the Super Bowl era and consistent mediocrity or worse, there wasn’t much to choose from. Even the draft classes with Calvin Johnson and Barry Sanders were not very good otherwise and didn’t produce consistent winning. But for four years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Lions were consistently over .500 -- largely because of their 1967 draft class, which featured a Hall of Famer and a superstar. Here’s a look at the four major players who came from that draft.
Lions' best draft class featured a future Hall of Famer and a superstar
