Well, we didn’t get one in the first 3 rounds but we did your guy Amon-Ra St. Brown.
I’m totally stoked with the WR’s we came away with, although I would have liked to have gotten a lightning quick slot guy.
I love that we got Jonathan Adams, he reminds me of Golladay. 6’3" with a 39" vertical is 3.5" higher than Golladay’s vert…but KG might be an inch taller. I actually think he can be someone that can make the roster.
I think Javon McKinley is the best of the UDFA WRs or in the very least the most talented. His signing bonus/guaranteed money seems to indicate this is the Lions belief as well. He’s got the pedigree and to be honest if life (injuries & his own dumbass behaviors he probably has a much more decorated career and is a fairly high draft pick. What’s odd is that when he was recruited his character/academics, etc. were consider elite and then he kind of lost his way for a bit. Like all of the rookie WRs he’s also a damn good blocker.
Amon-ra St. Brown was #11 WR in his highschool class. He put-up 20 reps at 6’1"-194lbs.
“After we drafted St. Brown, I felt like people would get off my ass about not getting a receiver,” Holmes said with a laugh, when asked the most important thing he accomplish in his first draft.
I also like Adams. I love the way he plays but he’s got one fatal flaw in his game that bugs me. Drops … he drops way too many footballs. Ones he should catch too. He clearly has concentration problems or butter-finger-itus. But he can play.
I’m hoping Campbell has him catching ball from the pitching machine 1hr before and after practice every day.
I was surprised we didn’t have the run on WR’s this year in late round two like we’ve had the last couple drafts. I was expecting a lot of these guys to fall from late round two to late round 3 and they didn’t. Which pushed some good WR’s into round 4 and 5.
I really thought both Browns would be gone by our second 3rd round pick.
I hope we get to see Cephus One thing that irritated me last year was seeing Fulgham tear it up with the Eagles(for half a season but still). I was like “why the f**k didn’t we play him again?”
It will be interesting to see if and who the Lions pick up this week. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a S, WR, DL or LB signed and some upgrades to the depth chart. With about 12M in cap space after signing our draft class, I think we’ll see a multi year contract this time.