Versatility.
Matt Patricia values it. Ed Oliver has it. That about sums up why I gave Oliver to the Detroit Lions in my Mock Draft 2.0, the post-free agency version, posted right here Wednesday on Freep.com.
The Lions, with the multiple fronts they run and gameplan-specific defense they employ, want lots of players who can do lots of different things, and if there’s one constant to what I’ve heard about Oliver during this pre-draft process, it’s that he can wreck games in a whole lot of different ways.