Episode #106: NFL Draft Review
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Over the weekend in Nashville over 100,000 NFL fans visited Broadway each day to find out which collegiate players would be selected by their favorite team. The Lions had 9 of those picks which created mixed emotions from the fan base. In this episode Erik and Joe focus solely on the draft.
- Iowa TE T.J. Hockenson – Round 1 Pick 8
- Hawaii LB Jahlani Tavai – Round 2 Pick 43
- Boston College S Will Harris – Round 3 Pick 81
- Clemson EDGE Austin Bryant – Round 4 Pick 117
- Penn State CB Amani Oruwariye – Round 5 Pick 146
- Old Dominion WR Travis Fulgham – Round 6 Pick 184
- Maryland RB Ty Johnson – Round 6 Pick 186
- Georgia TE Isaac Nauta – Round 7 Pick 224
- Arizona NT PJ Johnson – Round 7 Pick 229
- Outside of the regular picks, the Lions signed a bevy of undrafted free agents and tryout players
- Erik updates his roster stack… Lions Roster Stack: Post-2019 NFL Draft edition
- Taylor Decker’s fifth-year option has been exercised
- Special thanks to Don Valley 222, Slu Shark ND, Carter B 98 and Tia Matt 74 for the 5-star reviews!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Joe Kenya with me as always is Eric Schlett. |
| 0:07.3 | Eric this past weekend saw the beginning and completion of the 2019 NFL draft. |
| 0:14.8 | Lions held many selections. |
| 0:16.4 | They held the eighth pick in the first round and a tiny bit of surprise that opened up with tight end t j hawkinson |
| 0:23.2 | we're going to get into that right now a lot of people seemingly upset with this year's draft a lot of |
| 0:29.9 | people jubilant i think i know what camp you're in so let's just get going right away let's start |
| 0:36.3 | with t j hockinson from iowa tight end six foot |
| 0:39.2 | five 251 pounds well okay actually i'll address that the the point you made that some people |
| 0:46.5 | are happy and some people are not you know i i think with every team that's probably true yeah and i |
| 0:52.8 | think the thing that gets lost sometimes is that we don't look at things as a whole. |
| 0:59.4 | And we look at things and we break them down like every individual thing. |
| 1:04.7 | And we think if we don't know what's going on at this particular spot that it must not make sense and if it |
| 1:12.0 | doesn't make sense to us then it's bad and while I understand that we also have to understand |
| 1:19.7 | that there are people who it does make sense for and that there are people that are more in the |
| 1:25.6 | know than us that are making these decisions. |
| 1:28.7 | And as we've seen with last year's draft, when Quinn is drafting players for this scheme, |
| 1:37.4 | he knows the players that fit. |
| 1:39.0 | And so while we don't know all these players or maybe we don't see the same value because of the information |
| 1:46.3 | that we read or maybe we watch film or or you know games or whatever there's a national |
| 1:54.1 | narrative and then there's a team specific narrative and those are very different and the one thing |
| 1:57.9 | that I think we need to get used to as a Lions fan base is that the national |
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