Episode #149: Draft class review
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Detroit Lions Breakdown Podcast the guys review the Detroit Lions 2020 NFL Draft class, the team’s undrafted free agents, where each of the new players fits on the depth chart, and what to expect from them in year one.
This week, the guys discuss: And the Lions select…
- CB Jeff Okudah with the 3rd pick in the 1st round
- RB D’Andre Swift with the 35th pick in the 2nd round
- EDGE Julian Okwara with the 67th pick in the 3rd round
- OG Jonah Jackson with the 75th pick in the 3rd round, after trade up
- OG Logan Stenberg with the 121st pick in the 4th round, after a trade back
- WR Quintez Cephus with the 166th pick in the 5th round
- RB/KR Jason Huntley with the 172nd pick in the 5th round
- DT John Penisini with the 197th pick in the 6th round
- DL Jashon Cornell with the 235th pick in the 7th round
- and more …
- Presenting the Detroit Lions 2020 draft class
- 2020 Lions UDFA tracker
- Lions agree to terms with 7 UDFAs to 2020 roster
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Joe Kanya with me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:09.4 | It's now, what is today? Wednesday morning, Eric. |
| 0:13.0 | Yes. |
| 0:13.6 | We are, it's hard. |
| 0:15.6 | The days all blend together now. |
| 0:17.2 | All right, so we're four days on since the end of the NFL draft. We had a short |
| 0:23.9 | episode on Friday morning where we discussed first round pick Jeff Akuta, and today we're going to |
| 0:30.6 | break down every pick after Akuta. We've talked a lot about him. We've talked a lot about him |
| 0:35.6 | leading up to the draft itself. |
| 0:38.2 | So we'll dive right into the second round here. We'll start with Georgia running back DeAndre Swift. |
| 0:44.7 | He was picked with the third overall pick in the second round, picked 35. |
| 0:48.6 | The general feeling from the analysts on the NFL network ESPN combined program. |
| 0:55.5 | And it seems like a lot of the, |
| 0:57.6 | a lot of thoughts coming out of this was a good value pick for the Lions, |
| 1:00.9 | although surprising they went running back. |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, I think most analysts had had Swift as the top guy. |
| 1:13.0 | Yes, I'm looking at ESPN here. |
| 1:15.0 | They have him as the number one running back 18th overall. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, and Lance Eerline of NFL.com had him at number one. |
| 1:22.7 | DJ, Daniel Jeremiah, had him at number one. |
| 1:26.2 | PFF had him at number one. |
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