Chris Perfett

1 week ago | prideofdetroit.com | Chris Perfett

Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images You can never go wrong with the trenches when it comes to the NFL draft. Offensive and defensive linemen alike always retain top value in any draft year, and for the 2025 class there’s few positions that really stand out quite like the big boys. This is where football is won and lost, and every team worth their salt knows it. The Detroit Lions know it too, and we highly anticipate they’ll select at least one draft prospect here, probably more.

3 weeks ago | prideofdetroit.com | Chris Perfett

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images The owners’ meetings mark the final leg of news for the NFL before the calendar truly flips completely towards the NFL Draft, so now is as good of a time as any to start our NFL draft preview series. This marks the first of four podcasts we will do on the Detroit Lions and their draft needs. With a high-powered offense, it might be silly to talk about the Lions looking at skill position players, but the draft is not always about today, it’s about tomorrow.

1 month ago | prideofdetroit.com | Chris Perfett

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Detroit Lions have watched the first week of free agency go by and made a good number of signings and re-signings. Regardless of the roster assembled, a sentiment has appeared among a contingent of fans that there is something just not there. Something picking at the back of the brain, something missing.

1 month ago | prideofdetroit.com | Chris Perfett

Kimberly P. Mitchell / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Gregorian calendar new year? Chinese new year? No! No! No! I celebrate new year on the NFL’s league calendar system. Everyone thinks I am crazy and “Chris, that’s impossible, nobody is going to have a drink with you at 4 pm E.T. on a variable day at March” but that’s a joke on them because I don’t have friends.

1 month ago | prideofdetroit.com | Chris Perfett

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images With the NFL Scouting Combine wrapped up, the league calendar groans on towards its inexorable end, awaiting the new one; and with it comes free agency, tampering, all kinds of noise that will take our attention away from the draft. Before that happens, let’s talk about all those men who performed well at the Combine, and could potentially force the whole industry to rewrite mocks—more importantly, who popped up on the radar for the Detroit Lions?