If you\u2019ve been desperately looking for hints at what the Detroit Lions will do in next week\u2019s draft, you\u2019re likely pretty frustrated right now. The Lions have done a good job keeping their intentions close to the vest, and with Lions general manager Brad Holmes changing up their pre-draft process a little, what they do next Thursday remains a complete mystery.<\/p>\n
Detroit\u2019s fortress of information has been impenetrable this offseason\u2026 with seemingly one exception. The rumors have been hot and heavy in regards to Alabama offensive tackle Kadyn Proctor. The lead conductor of this rumor is long-time NFL Draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah, who doubled down last week on Proctor-to-Lions rumors.<\/a> First, he said this to ESPN\u2019s Mina Kimes:<\/p>\n \u201cI was told they love Proctor, by the way,\u201d Jeremiah said.<\/p>\n Later that week, he went a step further during a conversation with Peter Schrager:<\/p>\n \u201cI was told the other day that whenever you\u2019re doing one of these exercises [mock drafts] going forward, Proctor that is the absolute floor. He will not get by the Detroit Lions,<\/a>\u201d Jeremiah said.<\/p>\n Oddly, there has been almost nothing made public. A look at the Lions\u2019 top-30 visits leaked to the public, and you\u2019ll only see a single prospect projected to go in the first round: DT Caleb Banks\u2014and his visit could be related to some injury questions.<\/p>\n So what do we make of the lack of rumors? Is it possible the Proctor rumors are all a smokescreen? If so, what are the Lions trying to accomplish?<\/p>\n That\u2019s a big discussion on this week\u2019s Midweek Mailbag episode. Other topics this week include:<\/p>\n Listen to the entire show on your favorite podcast platform or using the Spotify embed below.<\/p>\n You can catch even more Detroit Lions draft talk by catching the video version of this episode on our Twitch channel<\/a> or YouTube page<\/a>. And while you\u2019re there, don\u2019t forget to subscribe. We have even more content on our YouTube page, outside of just our podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve been desperately looking for hints at what the Detroit Lions will do in next week\u2019s draft,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[99193,2131,16911,5193,30740,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-588031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-detroit-lions-mailbag","9":"tag-detroit-lions-analysis","10":"tag-detroit-lions-draft","11":"tag-detroit-lions-podcasts","12":"tag-detroit-lions-rumors","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}