Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast.

I'm Joe Kenya with me.

As always, is Eric Shulit from pride of Detroit.com.

Eric, the draft is nigh one week away, right?

Today, we got a little, it's our introduction.

You've already introduced it on a few podcasts already, and you've already

have it out in written form. The introduction, though, to our podcast of the Grit Index.

Now, it was alluded to last week, and this is what we're going to talk about today.

You know, last week we talked about a lot of the prospects, a lot of guys who, who may fit.

Now, this is just the next layer of what the Lions might be looking at when it comes to this Thursday.

Yeah, it's basically just like another piece to the puzzle, right?

You know, there's, you watch these guys film and you get an idea of how, if they're going to fit with the lions or if they're not, where they fit in the rankings.

You look at their athletic scores.

You factor that in.

You look at maybe, that gives you, like, things like RAS will help, you know, differentiate where you rank players.

And so then you add this grit component in for the Lions as well.

And it just is another factor to be applied to a player's overall evaluation.

So a high grit score is going to be good for a player.

It's going to give them an advantage when it comes to the lines.

But it's not necessarily going to be like the defining advantage.

Like just because a player has a high grit score doesn't mean that they're going to

like automatically have a first ground grade or a second round grade because of that.

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