Episode #334: NFL Draft preview, 2025
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2025
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Erik and Joe preview the 2025 NFL Draft class as we get closer to the big event, set to take place on April 24-26. As always, the guys go position-by-position through the Detroit Lions’ needs, introduce players’ projected availability, and identify the prospects that Lions fans should be keeping tabs on.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Joe Kenya with me. |
| 0:06.5 | As always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.2 | Eric, I think we're 16 days away from the NFL draft. |
| 0:13.1 | Maybe it's 17. |
| 0:14.4 | Oh, I think it's even shorter than that, right? |
| 0:17.1 | It's like, I feel like, yeah, I think it's like 13 days. |
| 0:20.4 | It feels like, who's the 25th? It's going to be feel like, yeah, I think it's like 13 days. It feels like who's the 20th? |
| 0:22.8 | It's going to be honest in a hurry. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, yeah, no, it's 24th. |
| 0:27.7 | We're 12 days away. |
| 0:28.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.7 | Man, my math is terrible in that one. |
| 0:32.4 | Don't take it out. |
| 0:33.3 | We're going to leave that in. |
| 0:34.6 | Leaving the bad math. |
| 0:36.2 | All right. |
| 0:37.4 | We're going to talk today about you know |
| 0:40.5 | just same stuff we'd always talk about leading up to the draft talk about the players lines might |
| 0:45.5 | be interested in drafting we're going to go position by position while we do it and you're going to go |
| 0:50.8 | a bit of the philosophy and it's just we were talking about this before we started, but, you know, how the philosophy's changed over the last few decades. |
| 0:59.7 | You know, like, the lions are good. They're one of the most solid teams in the NFL right now. |
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