 | NFL Network analyst: Lions would like to deal No. 2 pick |
CARLOS MONARREZ
No one knows what the Lions' draft plans are. Heck, even the team's decision-makers may not know what they're going to do with the No. 2 overall pick in the draft more than two weeks away.
But one personnel expert says the Lions want to trade down from the second spot to acquire at least one extra draft pick.
"I think they'd like to trade out of there," Gil Brandt, an NFL Network analyst who was Dallas' vice president of player personnel in 1960-89, said in a recent phone interview. "They hope that somebody is looking for a quarterback and they can pick up an extra choice or two extra choices."
The key to Brandt's thinking is the defensive tackle position. Most experts expect the Lions to pick either one of two tackles: Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh or Oklahoma's Gerald McCoy. But with an extremely deep class at that position -- draft expert Mike Mayock said as many as 13 may be picked in the first three rounds -- Brandt says the Lions could get a good player a little later in the first round and still pick up a good defensive tackle.
http://www.freep.com/article/20100404/SPORTS01/4040453/1049/sports01/Analyst-Lions-would-like-to-deal-No.-2-pick
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