The Lions selected nine new players in this year's 2017 NFL Draft, and soon all of them will be at the team's Allen Park training facility ready to work.
Six of the rookies are defensive guys, so it's safe to say their veteran teammates on that side of the ball are excited for their arrival.
"The things we've kind of done this offseason, with the draft and the guys we picked up, it makes us excited," defensive tackle Haloti Ngata said Thursday. "Especially with the young draft picks – the linebackers and the DBs.