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Trades will, as at all times, be something to observe for on the opening night of the draft. The center and latter portions of the first-round order could see loads of movement with teams maneuvering across the board in a yr lacking in top-tier prospects.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The Lions shall be a team to observe closely on that front. Detroit has been making calls a couple of trade up the order, ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler reports<\/a>. He adds<\/a> other teams are monitoring the Lions as a candidate for a move higher up the board. CBS Sports\u2019 Jonathan Jones also writes<\/a> Detroit is among the many teams which could swing a trade tonight.<\/p>\n The Lions have a second-round selection (No. 50) but don’t own a third-rounder. That limited Day 2 capital could make restrict how far up the board general manager\u00a0Brad Holmes\u00a0<\/strong>is capable of move. Nevertheless, a trade targeting a prospect Holmes and Co, are higher on than most would definitely not come as a surprise. Jones adds any deal moving Detroit closer to the highest of the Day 1 order would likely lead to an offensive tackle being drafted.<\/p>\n Adding up front has long been projected as a goal for the Lions. Ely Allen\u2019s PFR mock has\u00a0Monroe Freeling\u00a0<\/strong>coming off the board at No. 17. Meanwhile, Fowler\u2019s colleague Matt Miller and Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated<\/a> each have Detroit drafting\u00a0Kadyn Proctor <\/strong>at that spot. The Alabama product has previously been linked to the Lions, and the ultimate mock draft from Dane Brugler of The Athletic<\/a> also has him being chosen by Detroit.<\/p>\n The Lions won’t have\u00a0Taylor Decker\u00a0<\/strong>within the fold moving forward. Replacing him on the left tackle spot could thoroughly include Penei Sewell\u00a0<\/strong>shifting to the blindside, something which might allow Proctor or one other rookie to tackle right tackle duties immediately. Proctor is the topic of maturity questions, per Breer<\/a>, but a top-20 selection in his case can still be expected. In that event, the Lions will remain a landing spot to observe closely with or with no trade going down.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trades will, as at all times, be something to observe for on the opening night of the draft. The center and latter portions of the first-round order could see loads of movement with teams maneuvering across the board in a yr lacking in top-tier prospects. The Lions shall be a team to observe closely on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[13255,3838],"class_list":["post-323491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-lions","tag-trade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323494,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323491\/revisions\/323494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}