{"id":642729,"date":"2026-05-02T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642729\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:18:18","slug":"derrick-moore-to-detroit-lions-voted-best-nfl-draft-fit-for-a-michigan-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642729\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick Moore to Detroit Lions voted best NFL Draft fit for a Michigan player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Earlier this week, we asked fans which <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/teams\/michigan\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Michigan;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Michigan&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan<\/a> player selected in the 2026 NFL Draft has the best fit with their new team. And now the results are in.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6cdc817b5ce94964150a9acfce04bcc6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Edge rusher <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/players\/333312\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Derrick Moore;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Derrick Moore&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derrick Moore<\/a> was by far the voting favorite, recording 60% of the votes. Moore was selected in the second round with the No. 44 overall pick. The 6-foot-4, 255-pound pass rusher recorded 21 sacks in 53 games at Michigan with 24.5 tackles for loss and three forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Moore joins former Michigan edge rusher <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/33957\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aidan Hutchinson;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Aidan Hutchinson&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Hutchinson<\/a> on the Lions as well as linebacker <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/players\/340505\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jimmy Rolder;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jimmy Rolder&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Rolder<\/a>, who was drafted in the fourth round last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019m definitely excited to be playing next to Hutch, and hopefully I can learn a lot from him, and we can go out and cause a lot of havoc,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/news\/2026-nfl-draft-detroit-lions-trade-up-draft-edge-rusher-derrick-moore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Moore said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Moore said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Moore said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, we asked fans which Michigan player selected in the 2026 NFL Draft has the best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[515,22498,49,48,193138,239514,1447,514,21373,82],"class_list":["post-642729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-aidan-hutchinson","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-derrick-moore","tag-jimmy-rolder","tag-michigan","tag-nfl","tag-pass-rusher","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}