The Lions most popular selection in the mock draft simulator at Pro Football Focus is a quite popular one, indeed.
Fans love to project out the first round in PFF's mock draft simulator. The publication released the data from all the simulations, revealing the most popular projection for each team's first-round pick. For Detroit, that choice is Tennessee EDGE James Pearce.
Pearce has been on an upswing in popularity around the draft world, not just with the PFF simulators. He was Mel Kiper's projection to the Lions in his most recent mock draft at ESPN, and he's been joined by others.