NFL Draft 2017: Detroit Lions Seven-Round Mock Draft 4.0
By Zac Snyder
Continuing our Detroit Lions seven-round mock draft series with a scenario that makes a splash in round one before focusing on defense on day two.
In the weeks leading up to the 2017 NFL Draft I’m playing out several scenarios for the Detroit Lions in the form of seven-round mock drafts. With each mock I will start with a different position for the first round pick to force a look at a new scenario with each edition.
As I said when I led off this series with the first seven-round mock, this isn’t what I think the Lions will do, nor is it necessarily what I think they should do. Simply, this is a look at what they could do.
The methodology for this seven-round mock draft is simple. I used Matt Miller‘s (Bleacher Report) big board in the Fanspeak mock draft simulator to make each pick for the Lions while picks for the other 31 teams were auto-generated by the system. If a player had already been drafted in the simulation, he wasn’t an option. No cherry-picking picks allowed!
The first mock started off with a defensive end so that was off the table for version 4.0, as was linebacker, which was led off vesion 2.0, and safety, which got 3.0 started.
Unlike the first three mocks in this series, this one leads off with a player on the offensive side of the ball. Let’s get started.
Next: Round 1