Senior bowl struggles are about to give the Lions a big discount at a needed position for the future

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Senior Bowl practices are going down in Mobile, Alabama this week and the Detroit Lions are on hand looking for players of the future that they could draft in the 2025 NFL Draft. 

There’s one position that’s wildly underperforming at the moment and that’s going to be a good thing for the Lions believe it or not. We’re talking about quarterbacks. Hear me out. 

The Lions have their guy in Jared Goff. He is no doubt the very near future of this team. Goff is under contract until 2028 and we expect him to play out that deal for sure. But what happens afterward? 

Eventually, the Lions need to start thinking about the future of the position and that’s not Hendon Hooker who is already 27-years-old and could potentially not even be here much longer. 

So what can you do? You can wait a couple more years and maybe you keep Hooker or maybe Teddy Bridgewater doesn’t go back into retirement. Then you can use a high draft pick which you don’t really plan to have since you plan to be good or you could trade up for one. 

Or you can take advantage of the situation and let one of these young quarterbacks in a class that needed development fall to you in a later round. Then you can spend the next three to four years developing. It seems like the smartest plan if you ask me.

Guys like Jalen Milroe for example. Coming into the week he was expected to be a first-round pick. We had his average draft position set at 30th. Now he’s looking like someone who is going to fall out of the first and maybe continue to fall. If the Lions can get him at 60, they need to do it. 

The potential is there, but this guy needs some time and someone to work with him. Detroit has the time and they have someone to work with him assuming that Mark Brunell sticks around. New offensive coordinator John Morton is also a big help. He had a big hand in rebooting Jared Goff in 2022. 

You spend that three to four years with him and you have a 25-year-old mobile quarterback that’s hopefully ready to go and be a starter in a league that is suddenly being overrun by mobile quarterbacks. 

I know that everyone will say you don’t need to draft a quarterback and that the team needs to focus on defense. I think you can do both and be just fine. 

You have to sort of break your brain and the way you think about the draft at this point. The Lions are a really good team and it’s no longer about drafting starters for now, it’s about drafting to sustain success. You just hope some of those guys can just be really good now. 

This is how the Lions attacked the 2023 draft. They got their starter in Terrion Arnold and then everyone else was a pick for tomorrow instead of today. This is the same idea. 

Only this time the Lions can take advantage of a bad showing and steal players at the most sought-after position. You gotta strike when you can. 

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