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USA Today
18-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Mock draft watch: Breaking down CBS Sports 'Build the Perfect Draft' for the Lions
Mock draft watch: Breaking down CBS Sports 'Build the Perfect Draft' for the Lions The CBS Sports "With the First Pick" podcast crew offered up their "perfect" 7-round Lions mock draft. How did they do? It's always good to get some outside perspectives on the Detroit Lions and what they might do in the 2025 NFL Draft. The well-credentialed "With the First Pick" podcast on CBS Sports offered its insight on what Detroit might do. In their team-by-team "Build the Perfect Draft" series of seven-round mock drafts, CBS Sports analysts Ryan Wilson and Chris Trapasso tackled the Lions with a little under a week to go. The duo sort of painted by numbers in terms of picking out a position of need ahead of the actual player for each round and then finding players who fit. It's sort of the opposite approach of how Brad Holmes and the Lions go about their business, yet the picks here do a pretty good job of identifying Lions fits. Here's what they chose: 1st: Tyler Booker, OG, Alabama. The choice here went against their stated desire to bolster the defense, and it's because of positional scarcity; the DL and EDGE group is quite a bit deeper than the interior OL, notes Trapasso, and Booker's stylistic fit in Detroit is easy to see. The Lions do need a ready-to-roll guard. 2nd: C.J. West, DT, Indiana. Chosen after discussions about Shemar Turner and Omar Norman-Lott, this is quite a bit earlier than West is generally projected. Both Wilson and Trapasso compared him to Lions star Alim McNeill, and this is the range where McNeill was selected too. 3rd: Femi Oladejo, EDGE, UCLA. Trapasso smartly notes the similarity between Oladejo and Tampa Bay's Yaya Diaby, a late convert to pass rusher who has become a good NFL pass rusher--and did so under new Lions DL coach Kacy Rodgers. My personal take: flip Oladejo into the 2nd and drop West to this third-round spot and it seems more realistic. 4th: Tory Horton, WR, Colorado State. Wilson talked up his physicality on the outside and how well he handled being the focal point of the CSU offense before being hurt. 6th: Jordan Hancock, S, Ohio State. They looked hard for a safety who can feasibly play in the slot as well as split-safety looks, and settled on Hancock over a few other candidates who were more box-safety types. 7th: Fadil Diggs, EDGE, Syracuse. "No Lions fan would be upset with double-dipping at EDGE", notes Trapasso, and Wilson points out Diggs' impressive size and pass-rush style as a fit. 7th: Moliki Matavao, TE, UCLA. Solid TE3/TE4 prospect who can block fairly well and offers upside as a receiver. They only looked at TE here despite striving to land "best player available". Overall, this wound up being a draft that most Lions fans could embrace, even if it unfolded a little unconventionally.
Yahoo
25-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Top pass rusher falls to Jaguars in CBS Sports 2025 NFL mock draft
A potential No. 1 pick and the top pass rusher in the 2025 NFL draft class fell to the Jacksonville Jaguars in a recent mock draft from CBS Sports. Recently, on the 'With the First Pick' podcast, a year-round draft podcast over at CBS Sports, draft analysts Ryan Wilson and Mike Renner alternated picks and put together a first-round mock draft. And somehow, Penn State's Abdul Carter fell to the Jaguars at pick No. 5. Below is how the first four picks ahead of Jacksonville played out, pushing Carter down several spots: (trade with Titans): QB Cam Ward Cleveland: IDL Mason Graham Giants: CB/WR Travis Hunter Patriots: OT Will Campbell The Jaguars already have Josh Hines-Allen and Travon Walker on the edge, but this would be an easy pick to make for Jacksonville, and you figure out playing time and the rotations afterward. Listed at 6-3 - 252 pounds, Carter had a huge 2024 season, totaling 66 pressures and 13 sacks. He also graded out well against the run by PFF's metrics. Compared to the rest of his position group, Carter was second in pressures, fifth in sacks, and fourth in pass rush win rate. He also had the ninth-mos run stops as well. This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Top pass rusher falls to Jaguars in CBS Sports 2025 NFL mock draft
USA Today
25-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Top pass rusher falls to Jaguars in CBS Sports 2025 NFL mock draft
A potential No. 1 pick and the top pass rusher in the 2025 NFL draft class fell to the Jacksonville Jaguars in a recent mock draft from CBS Sports. Recently, on the 'With the First Pick' podcast, a year-round draft podcast over at CBS Sports, draft analysts Ryan Wilson and Mike Renner alternated picks and put together a first-round mock draft. And somehow, Penn State's Abdul Carter fell to the Jaguars at pick No. 5. Below is how the first four picks ahead of Jacksonville played out, pushing Carter down several spots: Jets (trade with Titans): QB Cam Ward Cleveland: IDL Mason Graham Giants: CB/WR Travis Hunter Patriots: OT Will Campbell The Jaguars already have Josh Hines-Allen and Travon Walker on the edge, but this would be an easy pick to make for Jacksonville, and you figure out playing time and the rotations afterward. Listed at 6-3 – 252 pounds, Carter had a huge 2024 season, totaling 66 pressures and 13 sacks. He also graded out well against the run by PFF's metrics. Compared to the rest of his position group, Carter was second in pressures, fifth in sacks, and fourth in pass rush win rate. He also had the ninth-mos run stops as well. 'I'm taking the best player here,' said Renner. 'I'm shooing positional need because if you're the Jaguars you'll find that elsewhere. Just get talent on this roster.' On both sides of the football, a priority for new head coach Liam Coen this offseason will be improving the Jaguars play at the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. Defensively speaking, the Jaguars ranked 32 in ESPN's pass-rush win rate metric and 27th in run-stop rate.
