2026 NFL Draft Day 1 live discussion, open thread
(*1*)It’s lastly time for the 2026 NFL Draft, and it is a huge one for the Detroit Lions.
(*1*)After a disappointing 9-8 season, a modest free company interval, and plenty of ready, the Lions have 9 picks this weekend to create some optimistic buzz and add some vital gamers to the group’s roster.
(*1*)Lions normal supervisor Brad Holmes has thrived on draft weekend since coming to city in 2021. His first three drafts have already cemented themselves as a few of the finest in group historical past. And whereas the 2024 draft seems to be to be a major step again, they acquired some respectable manufacturing out of final 12 months’s class of their collective rookie seasons.
(*1*)While Holmes has 9 picks, solely two are within the NFL Draft’s top-100 picks. That means Holmes will both have to maneuver across the board to get some high-impact gamers, or he’ll have to search out some critical diamonds within the tough throughout a busy Day 3 (at the moment slated to have seven picks).
(*1*)Regardless of what they do, that is your own home to speak about Day 1 of the NFL Draft. Feel free to touch upon the entire picks, and particularly throughout the Lions’ seventeenth general choice. Just scroll right down to the remark part and go at it.
