When it comes to working the phones on draft day, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes isn’t afraid to pick it up and make a call.
In his second draft at the helm, Holmes packaged up picks and sent them to Minnesota in order to move up 20 spots and take wide receiver Jameson Williams. The year before that, Holmes had to find the resolve to stand pat and let the board fall his way to select Levi Onwuzurike. The NFL even had to tell Holmes to not pick players so soon into his allotted time to make a selection—on multiple occasions.