the Rams were one of the teams the Lions called regarding a trade up<\/a>. Los Angeles, who shocked most by taking Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson, were apparently not blown away enough by Detroit\u2019s offer to accept it.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Detroit Lions had interest in moving up, a team source said,\u201d Atkins wrote, \u201cbut the return didn\u2019t excite in a draft that thinned out considerably by Day 3 due to so many college players returning for name, image and likeness compensation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith three enticing options, DeCosta was willing to trade back \u2014 and he thought he had a deal worked out with a team (which he declined to name) that would keep the Ravens picking in the teens and allow them to pick up extra fourth-round picks in each of the next two drafts. Once on the clock, however, the trade fell through. This time, it was not DeCosta\u2019s doing. \u201cWe had something on the table, but inexplicably they told us they\u2019d changed their mind,\u201d he said Friday morning. \u201cThey changed the deal (and made another offer that wasn\u2019t as good), and we passed.\u201d\u201c<\/p>\n
Now, DeCosta didn\u2019t reveal the team, but let\u2019s put some pieces together, because it feels quite likely he\u2019s talking about the Lions.<\/p>\n
First, he mentions this team would have kept them in the teens. That fits because the Ravens would have moved down from 14 to 17 in a trade with Detroit. Additionally, he mentions the compensation of an extra fourth-round pick in the next two drafts. That\u2019s certainly notable because the Lions didn\u2019t have any third-round picks to trade this year.<\/p>\n
However, the most compelling argument is the trade falling through. Why would an agreed-upon trade fall through at the last minute? Well, look who picked right before the Ravens: the Los Angeles Rams. The Rams made the shocking pick of Simpson, and it\u2019s quite possible that caught the Lions off-guard as much as it did everyone else. And, as Holmes\u2019 openly admitted, once the Rams made their pick, Detroit no longer had an interest in a trade up, knowing that Miller\u2014or another talented player\u2014was much more likely to land at 17.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s entirely possible that Holmes\u2019 ex-colleague, Rams general manager Les Snead, unintentionally did him a favor\u2014making a selection that ultimately may have prevented Holmes from spending additional draft capital on a player he was able to draft anyways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Detroit Lions drafted Clemson offensive tackle Blake Miller with their first-round pick, general manager Brad Holmes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[16911,4992,99],"class_list":["post-615360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-detroit-lions-draft","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615360","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=615360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}