2017 NFL Draft is Finally Here!!

        The 2017 NFL Draft is finally here!! Almost 3 months after the end of the Super Bowl, fans and teams and chomping at the bit.  This years NFL Draft has Cleveland, San Francisco and Chicago with the first 3 picks. There are always allot of Mock Draft Boards out there but most at best are only guessing after the first few picks. Teams will jockey and move up or down depending on who they want and what their most glaring needs are at their pick selection.  It looks like the first 3 picks of this years draft will not be QB's but rather defensive players and possibly the 1st pick of an offensive player will be either a RB (Fournette) or a WR (Williams).
        All Teams will have their war rooms and the players they want and ranked and all teams have their own ways of projecting who is best at each position. The NFL Combine gave teams a chance to talk to players they were interested in as well as bringing potential players in to talk to them individually. So the time is here for the fans to get excited and either be happy with their teams selection or be a MMQB and yell and stomp their feet and let their teams know they do not like who was selected, this is what makes the Draft so exciting for teams and their fans. So much time and resources are spent trying to find the top players in all rounds of the draft. Time will tell which teams drafted the best and which ones were the worst.
     I find it very amusing with all these so called Draft experts who grade NFL teams on their draft choices, only to see allot of the time as the season plays on that they were so wrong. The so called Draft Experts are just that, Draft guessers and usually not too good at that either..They project who the teams will draft especially in the first round and then grade them afterwards usually not having a clue how good these players may or may not be.
      The Detroit Lions are My hometown team and this year under 2nd year GM Bob Quinn, they hold 8 draft picks in the 7 rounds of the NFL Draft.  The Lions have many glaring needs that need to be addressed. Detroit had a pretty good off season in the NFL Free Agency and signed  OT Wagner, DE Spence, DE Washington, CB Hayden and LB Worrilow. It will be interesting to see if the Lions move up or down given the chance or if they stay at #21 and select there. I see the Lions moving up to draft possibly the #10 or #11 spot to grab the player they covet the most. If the player is already taken, look for the Lions to move down and pick up another draft pick or 2.  With the picks they have this draft, Detroit should be able to address most of their needs and also add depth  It will also mark the second year with a new Draft strategy and a new team in place. The Lions need immediate help on the DL, OL, S, LB. With this being GM Bob Quinn's second draft with the Lions after taking over, it seems he is following a strategy of building his team through youth and adding depth as well.  Usually it takes a few seasons to see how well the lower round draft picks pan out and if they were successful in building a team. For the Lions to take a jump to being an elite team in the NFL year in and year out they will need to have successful drafts, which is something they have struggled with for many many years. Will the Lions with their first pick take the best player available no matter what position he plays or will the Lions take the best player available that fits a need?  I see the Lions first pick in this years draft being a LB pick which they desperately need.  I see the Lions taking OLB TJ Watt with their 1st pick. Dream pick is Rueben Foster. The Lions could go wild once again and take a top WR or RB if available, this wouldn't surprise me at all. The first two picks in the draft will be Myles Garrett to the Cleveland Browns and Solomon Thomas to the San Francisco 49'ers.
         I will also give you the top 4 Draft winners, 4 teams that were average and the 4 biggest losers after the Draft based on my own criteria and opinions as I do every year.

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