How many late-round picks can you have?
That’s the question Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes admitted he asked himself during last week’s NFL draft, within the context of where the Lions’ Super Bowl-ready roster is at this point in the offseason.
When Holmes packaged two Day 3 draft picks to move up in a trade and take defensive lineman Mekhi Wingo in the sixth round, he knew he was doing so at the expense of potential back-of-the-roster depth elsewhere.
“You start looking back and you’re like, ‘Well, you’ve got two sixes, you’ve got a seven,’” Holmes said. “You start looking, you’re like, ‘It’s going to be hard. Yeah, we could get this wide receiver, but he doesn’t play special teams, so I don’t really know how this is going to work cause now he would have to really win a spot but he’s probably not.’ And some guys, it just doesn’t add up or make a lot of sense.”
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Holmes apparently believes that the Lions roster is pretty solid and few late round picks have a chance to make the team at this point in the roster development.