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Speaker 2: Hey, everyone. Jeff Brison here with your daily DLP. Back after a couple of days of, Memorial Day weekend. Took a little time off. Technically, I am recording this on Monday evening, but it's gonna be a little bit late in the evening for, for y'all to watch this. It's gonna roll on Tuesday morning, but, thank you for sticking with it. Hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend. Had a conversation over the weekend with a Lions fan, longtime friend of mine who, I hadn't seen in a little bit. We were, for used to play beach volleyball together and against one another more specifically. And, he wanted to talk lions, so I obliged. And, one of the questions that he asked me was in the wake of the Jack Campbell extension, and he spun it forward. Like, when are we gonna pay the class of 2024, and will any of them be worthy of an extension? And, Eric, I have your answer for you. It got me it it really got me thinking, though. Like, that draft class, it's just not there yet. This is a big year for the Detroit Lions 2024 draft class. Headlined by Terryon Arnold. I I'll I'll bring the screen up here. I'll share it for for those of you who are watching on YouTube or Spotify. Thank you for liking and subscribing, by the way. I will add the screen share here. I'm gonna pull it up. There's the picks. First round, Terry and Arnold, pick number 24. The lines traded up to get him. We'll go over the trade in a minute. Second round, cornerback, Ennis Rakestra from Missouri. Fourth round, Giovanni Manu, offensive lineman from British Columbia. Also in the fourth round, Sione Vaki. Listed by pro football reference, which is what I'm looking at here profootballprofootballreference.com as a safety, which is what he indeed did play at Utah. The lions drafted him with every intention of having him play running back, which he also did at Utah and at the senior bowl. Sixth round, Makhi Wingo, defensive tackle from LSU, and sixth round offensive lineman guard from Boston College Christian Mahogany. So far, this class has been underwhelming, disappointing, frustrating, maddening. Look. I have been big on Terry on Arnold. I still think he can be a very good cornerback in the NFL, but to this point, we've seen glimpses. We just see a lot more longer looks of Terryon looking like a legitimate starting outside cornerback. Think at the start of last year, you saw it. Start of the second season. He had matured and was doing better, was being less handsy in coverage, was learning learning to play the receiver a little bit better. But between the injury and the the penalties and just a general lack of effective. He hasn't been a first round pick. He hasn't been worthy of it yet. Again, I still hold out hope in terrier. We'll see if that hope is unfounded or not in 2026 because he will be one of your starting outside cornerbacks, at least to start the season. The Lions absolutely expect it. I'm hopeful. But at this point, he's probably lost the benefit of the doubt there. And then you look at what the lions gave up to move up to get it. Now, again, you don't know that the lions would have taken the players that they traded up with Dallas from '28 to '24 to get Terry on. And you don't know that the lions would have made the same choices with the picks that they did, but they gave him a first and a third. And that first round pick has become Tyler Guyton, who was a starting tackle and a pretty good one for Dallas. Inconsistent, but impressive. And the third rounder became Cooper Beebe, who was Dallas' starting center and a decent one. He actually hasn't been as good as I expected him to. I I thought I was much higher on him. I thought he should have gone, early second round was the grade that I had on Cooper Beebe coming out of Kansas State. But okay. Things would look very different in Detroit with those two picks. Again, you don't know that the lines would have taken them. And I don't have any information that the lines had any interest in Guyton. I don't know that. Don't know. I know they looked at Beebe. I know they spent a lot of time with Cooper Beebe at the Senior Bowl that year. Whether they liked them or not, I can't answer that. But

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Speaker 2: When you look at it through that prism, hasn't been great. Terryon still got, look, he's got one more season before they have to pick up his fifth year option. At this point, I think that's probably the most the best hope is that Terryon plays well enough that the Lions like, there's no there's no question that they will pick it up that fifth year option. That'd be great. Ennis Rakestra has played eight games in two years. Hurt a lot. Multiple injuries both seasons. Had injuries a lot at Missouri. It was weird. The timing on those was weird because he didn't necessarily miss a great deal of time at Missouri. Kind of in the way that Kerryon Johnson, like, when he when he was the run former Lions running back draft pick, when he was at Auburn. He didn't miss games, but he got hurt, like, at the end of every season and wound up not having offseasons to get better. And that's kind of been the story with with Dennis Rakestra. And Dennis Rakestra now is at a point where the lions drafted Keith Abney in that spot. They signed Roger McCreery in that spot, but they also have guys like Christian Isian and, Levante Maddox, who can also play that that slot nickel role. Outside, they brought Brockus in back. Nick Whiteside is back. To this point, we've seen more from Nick Whiteside in coverage than we have Dennis Rake's draw, and it's not I will go back to what I wrote at Lions Wire, right after they took Ennis Rake's straw. And you can still look it up. It's still out there, of why it was such a a vexing pick for me because I I I liked what I saw on film at Missouri from Edna's Rick Straw, but I also was scared to death of the injuries. And thus far, unfortunately, the injury hand has worn won out over the potential hand. This is a very big off season for Ennis Rakestra. I believe this is just my speculation, but I believe he is at the point where he has to show that he can get through an entire training camp and preseason healthy. Russell Elijah's gonna, like, put him on IR and wave him. Wouldn't surprise me if that happened at all if he got hurt again. Another serious injury. You know, a a broken finger or a broken toe or something like that, that that that's different. A soft tissue injury like a, a a severely pulled hamstring or a high ankle sprain or another torn pec or another torn biceps, something like that. Like, that's at some point, you at that point, we'll probably just be to the point where his body just isn't made for the football, man. And it sucks because there is talent there. I wanna believe in Ennis Rickshaw, but this is a big off season for him. So for the first two picks of the twenty twenty four draft, the lions have one, maybe long term starting quarterback outside, maybe. And the other one, we don't know what he can do after two seasons. And that's still more than we know about the third pick, Giovanni Manu, who they gave up a third round pick for. That third round pick, by the way, was traded with that traded pick. It got traded again and again and again, wound up being Jalen Milrow, backup quarterback. Well, that's I'll I'll throw this one out there to you fellow listeners and Lions fans. How would you feel if Jalen Milro was QB two instead of Teddy Bridgewater or, Nick Altmyer. Luke Altmyer. Sorry. I don't know why it it's in my head. That's that's that's a me problem. Sorry. Now remember, at the time, they had head and hooker, and there was still optimism around head and hooker being able to maybe maybe be something. It turned out to fall flat, and I so I'm still bummed about that one because I really did see I saw in head and hooker what the lions saw in head and hooker, and damn it, it didn't work. And that's it's frustrating because it could have, and it would have been nice. But Manu has played in four games in two seasons. He might not make the team this year. There's a very real chance that he is not I mean, they drafted Blake Miller, and A Sewell is still here. They signed Larry Borom to $5,000,000. Larry Borom's shown a lot more than Giovanni Manu ever has. At best, Manu is going to make the team as the fourth tackle and be a game day inactive. Maybe they try maybe they try to make I I don't know. But to this point, he's not been better than Colby Sorestle. He's not been better than Dan Skipper, who's now one of the coaches on the team. Wasn't better than Jamarco Jones last summer. As with Raekstra, this is the year where being drafted where he was, I don't think it saves him if he can't play anymore. And that's a frustrating one. Again, that I don't think the Lions grasped just how green he was. Now I under look. I understand the sales pitch. I do. It might be Jordan Maelotta. Might be, you know, the athleticism. Coach Hank Fraley can work wonders with it and get him up to speed and have him be your number three tackle by now, and it just hasn't happened. And that's disappointing. An injury last season didn't help him. Wound up missing half the season. Didn't get to come back at the end of the year, which was, you know, it's disappointing. It's it's a setback. Still very raw. And that's, you know, that that's a pick. It'd be nice to have better depth there. Again, it's it's it's a tough one. That that that right now, though, goes down for me. We're gonna talk we're we're gonna go over a lot of the draft picks of the Holmes Campbell era. For me, he is probably the worst pick so far. Frederick Martin's probably down there. I don't I don't know. I'd we'll we'll discuss that. But right now, you're not getting anything out of that pick. Sione Vaki has played very decently, capably on special teams. As a running back, he's run the ball seven times for 18 yards and caught three passes for 37 yards in two seasons. Plays almost exclusively on special teams. He is still RB three, and we'll see if he's closer to RB two, which is right now is Isaiah Pacheco. Then he is r b four, which right now is Jacob Sailors. Last season, he was not anywhere close to being r b three. Just when when you're not better than Craig Reynolds and look, I love Craig, but be straight. Craig Reynolds is a a third running back and was definitively better at all things running back than Vaki in year two for for Sione. Like, it would be great if he could be more than a special teams toy for Dave Phipp. But to this point, he hasn't really done that. Again, he's got a chance to show it this year. That door is not closed. If he can push it as a Poshenko, that's great. Let's do it. It'd be nice. But, to this point, as a fourth round pick who was acquired in a trade along with the six round pick that provided Mahogany, hasn't been hasn't really gotten a lot of return on it. Now just to go over that that draft trade, they were treated for the picks that became the following players, Jalen Simpson, Micah Abraham, and Quan Darius Robinson. Two of those guys have never played a regular season snap. Bacchi's done more than that. So in that aspect, I guess it's okay, but we need to see more. Makai Wingo, 13 games, two seasons was a healthy scratch for almost all of that time. Played a little bit as a rookie when everybody was hurt. It's funny when you talk about Wingo. And you can tell you can tell the fans that are very optimistic about him because they're like, he had that one great rep against Chicago. Like, he did. That we can point to that one in two seasons? Not positive. I am hopeful that he can find a position that he can play in this defense. But the lions just drafted Tyree West and Scatter Gill Howard, both of whom have the same size, peculiarity slash limitations that Wingo does. They could rightly be perceived as direct competition for Wingo for that roster spot. Don't know if that's gonna the way it's gonna play out, but it's certainly like, if you think that, you you you're not wrong. We'll see how that plays out. But when you're looking at six round picks, if they make the team two years in a row, honestly, that's a win. So from that standpoint, we go has been fine. Christian Mahogany, the last pick. This is one I liked Mahogany a lot. Made no I made no secret about that. He was my favorite pick in that draft class when they made it. I saw a starting left guard long term, and he started some games. Has he been great? No. First two, three weeks of last season before he got hurt, he was an acceptable starter, a baseline level starting guard. Did a little bit more than that actually in in the run game, but didn't return to form from that. He is in pencil now as your starting left guard, but he's gotta win that job this summer. There's gonna be a lot of people going after him for that. May the best man win, and may it be Mahogany because I'd I'd love to tout him as one of my guys. He was one of my guys in that draft regardless of being a lion or not. Like, I I love the dude. It'd be nice if I could doubt that as a win, but we're not there yet. That was also the year where there wasn't a lot of UDFA action either. Just to this point, when you look at the Lions and you look at that draft, this is the year where the that class specifically should really start to pay dividends. And at this point, it hasn't. K. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed with Tarion, playing more consistently at the level that he can. Because there there is absolutely first round talent in Terry and Arnold. That was not an unpopular pick either locally or nationally. People got it. Like, yeah. We're like, good good move. Go get him. He fits the lines. He does fit the grip. He still does. He's just gotta play more to it. The Great if Rakshar can stay held. The great if Manu can do anything. Great if Vaki can do anything on offense. To this point, it's been tough, man. Hopeful that in another year, when we look back on this next year, Terryon is a above slightly above average starter. And his Raichstra has stayed healthy. Crews very valuable as a swing reserve defensive back who can play inside, can play outside corner. Plays 16 games, plays on special teams. Vaki gets 25 carries, another 10 catches as RB three. Manu is o t four, but also plays some jumbo tight end. He get on the field a little bit, maybe. Maybe. Hopefully. At least game day active every now and then. Like, if if one of the three tackles is clearly above him on the depth chart now misses a couple of weeks, that Manu can be actively on that team, and the lions aren't signing Jamarco Jones again. No offense Jamarco. Like, I think he retired. But, you know, this is what he drafted him for. Now is the time. Mahogany can win that left guard spot, become an asset. I I wouldn't put that the bar there is just not be a detriment, and he showed that he can do that. He's just gotta do it more. That's your 2024 draft review, courtesy of a question from Eric. Thank you, sir. It's good to see you this weekend. That's your daily for today. We're gonna get back at it. I've got a couple of guests lined up for later this week, and we're also gonna be looking at we're gonna go over some of these draft classes in time. We do have OTAs at the end of this week. I am hopeful, fingers crossed, that I can get over there for one day. I don't know if that's gonna work out logistically, but I'm I'm I'm efforting very dip very hard to get over there. So hopefully, we have that. But until then, this is Jeff Rizzo signing out. Be good to one another, everybody.