Tom Petty once said “the waiting is the hardest part.” For Detroit Lions fans, that’s all they had for the first few days of free agency. It seemed like plenty of other teams were having fun while the Lions were vanishing players off their roster like Thanos after he got all the infinity stones.
But then late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, after Bill Belichick stopped spending money like a 45-year-old man whose teenage daughter told him he wasn’t cool, the Lions made their first significant move.
This was a pretty good first move by general manager Brad Holmes.