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With their league worst record in 2008, the Lions secured the No. 1 overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. Detroit also had the No. 20 overall pick in the first round, which they received from the Dallas Cowboys as part of the Roy Williams trade in 2008. The trade also gave them additional picks in the 3rd and 6th rounds.
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the North Division of the National Football Conference. [13] The franchise was founded in Portsmouth, Ohio, as the Portsmouth Spartans and joined the NFL on July 12, 1930. [14]
The Detroit Lions, who became the first team in NFL history to finish a season at 0–16, used the first selection in the draft to select University of Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford. [3] It was the first draft since 1983 that saw two centers being selected in the first round—Alex Mack at No. 21 to the Browns, and Eric Wood at No. 28 to ...
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the North Division of the National Football Conference. [1] The franchise was founded in Portsmouth, Ohio, as the Portsmouth Spartans and joined the NFL on July 12, 1930. [2]
With the New York Jets hiring Aaron Glenn to be their next head coach, the Detroit Lions will receive two extra draft picks, thanks to a 2020 amendment to the NFL's collective bargaining agreement ...
With the nineteenth pick of the first round of that draft, Steve Owens, a running back out of Oklahoma University, became the Lions' first modern draft selection. [11] In addition to the annual draft, the Lions participated in the 1984 NFL supplemental draft .
The Detroit Lions have a lot of options with their first round pick in the 2024 NFL draft. Here are 50 mock drafts predicting what Detroit might do. Detroit Lions NFL mock draft roundup ...
Draft picks are tradable and players or other picks can be acquired with them. [9] In 1936, the Lions took part in the first NFL draft of college football players. [10] [11] With the eighth pick of the first round of that draft, Sid Wagner, a guard out of Michigan State University, became the Lions' first draft selection. [2]