Back to the Detroit Lions Newsfeed

Quinn must draft for future, not for present

Detroit Free Press sports writers Drew Sharp and Carlos Monarrez discuss which player the Lions might draft 16th overall. Video by Carlos Monarrez/DFP

With all eyes on the NFL draft, this is the first-year general manager's time to show the Lions are doing things right

It’s never easy eradicating ghosts.

And for the Detroit Lions, it remains a constant exorcism.

They remain that boat in which the first impulse is always looking for that hole in the floor that sinks them to the bottom. It’s no different with a new general manager, a mostly new scouting apparatus and a strategic blueprint more consistent with how the New England Patriots conducted business.