Episode #233: Exploring Lions’ needs and the NFL Draft
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys discuss the Detroit Lions team needs and how they could address them in the upcoming 2022 NFL draft.
Topics on this week’s show include:
- Position by position review of the roster in 2022 and 2023
- Identifying players the Lions may target in the draft to fill those needs
- Lions sign safety DeShon Elliott to a 1-year deal
- Lions’ top-30 visit tracker
- Lions only have 8 draft picks instead of the originally reported 9
- Erik’s picks in the Pride of Detroit’s community mock draft
- Travon Walker at pick No. 2
- Nakobe Dean at pick No. 32
- Could the Lions select Sauce Gardner at No. 2?
- Will Harris’ new role on defense
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Transcript
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| 0:00.7 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:08.6 | Eric, we are steamrolling towards the NFL draft just a scant 13 days away for its kickoff on April 28th. |
| 0:16.5 | Also, you know, short term, the 2022 NFL draft, we also had some sort of press conference in Campus Martius Park, I believe it was Thursday. |
| 0:28.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.6 | Where they set up a weird looking clock. |
| 0:31.1 | It's a gear because, you know, it's Detroit and we make cars, so the clock's got to look like a gear. |
| 0:36.1 | And the Ford family also owns the lines. |
| 0:38.5 | That probably plays a hand into it. |
| 0:41.1 | But the clock is counting down the days to the 2024 NFL draft. |
| 0:46.9 | Clever. |
| 0:48.3 | I guess. |
| 0:49.0 | Yes, I guess. |
| 0:50.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:51.9 | Why would anybody be interested? |
| 0:54.4 | I guess if you're in town, take a picture of yourself in front of the clock. |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.8 | People can look at it. |
| 0:59.6 | It's like, why do they have this clock? |
| 1:01.9 | It's a good reminder. |
| 1:04.8 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:05.4 | Like a good, I do think people would take pictures. |
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