Episode 193: Lions 2021 draft class breakdown
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the fellas take their time and break down the Detroit Lions 2021 draft class, examining in detail the seven drafted and 13 undrafted players. Among the things Erik and Joe will discuss in detail include:
- Examining the potential of the player
- What are their strengths? Where can they improve?
- Where will they contribute? How soon?
- Will they start in 2021? 2022? or are they a role player?
- GM Brad Holmes’ approach to drafting each player
- and more…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:10.7 | Also 2020 are Detroit Magazine's number two, most beloved sports columnist or blogger. |
| 0:16.5 | Eric, Thursday through Saturday, was what a big chunk of the Lions fan base unaffectionately calls the Lion's Super Bowl. |
| 0:25.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.9 | The NFL drafts. |
| 0:27.8 | It ended up having seven picks over the seven rounds, which is that Brad Holmes was able to pump up the pick group by a couple of picks. |
| 0:38.1 | We only had six going in. |
| 0:41.1 | Yeah, I had six going in, came out with seven, and a whole bunch of undrafted guys. |
| 0:47.0 | So I ended up with – |
| 0:48.8 | I was going to end up with total of 20 rookies that will be on the roster. |
| 0:53.7 | So not bad. we're going to have |
| 0:55.9 | a 90 man roster going into camp and we still don't have all 90 spots full at this moment yeah we're |
| 1:02.3 | at 85 so there's still five spots open for maybe another underactive free agent, maybe a veteran. |
| 1:12.3 | There's some, like it's got. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, or maybe even that's still out there because there's a couple of them that are still |
| 1:17.8 | could still contribute. So especially like it's safety, right? So we'll, uh, we'll take a look at |
| 1:27.0 | like what the roster looks like and we'll talk about these picks and we'll try and get everybody up to date on the new additions. |
| 1:33.5 | Yeah, so yeah, we'll get to those 13 undrafted free agents in just a few minutes. |
| 1:37.5 | We'll start with the regular draft picks. |
| 1:40.5 | First round, the headliner, pick seven. |
| 1:43.9 | Penae Sewell from Oregon, offensive tackle. |
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