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The Valenti Show

HOUR 2: Should The Lions Move Up Or Down In The NFL Draft?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Valenti and Rico each posed their own plans for what the Lions should do in Thursday's NFL Draft.

Transcript

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0:00.0

3 o'clock, good to have you guys with us.

0:03.2

We are still, we've got plenty of people who want to talk about the Jalen Duren question,

0:07.0

and you've got to disregard game one.

0:08.9

It's just to me that's a one-off until it's not.

0:11.5

But it's the question that I thought Jim Costa was having a really good discussion until he

0:16.7

yelled at by caller Bobby.

0:18.4

It was, is Jalen Dern a max player?

0:21.2

Right now, he could earn five at 200.

0:25.0

But if he's named to the all NBA teams in a couple of weeks, that could go to five at

0:30.0

290.

0:31.2

And you got to ask yourself, how am I constructing a championship team if 60% of my cap is

0:36.9

Cade and Dern? Is he a max player? If you say yes,

0:41.1

tell me how we're going to acquire the scoring and floor spacing necessary for that to continue.

0:47.7

And if he's not, well, what's the path forward? But again, none of this has to do with game one.

0:55.3

Game one, I'm just drawing a line through it, all right?

0:57.6

It's like if Vasilevsky has a terrible game, he's still a Vesna winner, he's still one of the best goalies of my generation.

1:04.8

You just draw a line through it.

1:07.2

248, 539, 97-97.

1:09.7

The football side, I want to welcome our draft people in.

1:13.6

Rico and I had a debate for, I don't know, two, three minutes on the show yesterday.

1:17.4

And we wanted to revisit and make a topic of it.

1:20.4

The Lions are picking at 17.

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