THE Detroit lions won the 28th choice in total in the draft of the NFL 2025 after a regular season of all time ended in a heartbreaking manner in the playoffs.
This is a new standard that the lions pick in the back half of the first round after several years to count on a savior taken in the first five choices of the weekend. They landed at n ° 29 in 2024 before exchanging until No. 24 and bringing a promising young cornerback to Terrion Arnold.
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There may still be a significant value at the end of the first round despite all the popular names taken early in the night. Here is a brief overview of the history of the teams and the players they took at n ° 28:
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2015 Detroit Lions: Laken Tomlinson – G
Before the last 10 seasons, there has been a handful of large choices not so large to choose from 28.
Great
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1983 Washington: Darrell Green – DB
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Fame temple, 7x Pro Bowl, 1x All-Pro, Super Bowl 2x champion, NFL 1990 team
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1995 Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Derrick Brooks – LB
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Fame temple, 11x pro Bowl, 5x all-pro, Super Bowl champion, 2002 defensive player of the year
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2007 San Francisco 49ers: Joe Staley
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6x pro Bowl, 13 career seasons, the team of all decade of the 2010 NFL
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Not so tall
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2014 Carolina Panthers: Kelvin Benjamin – Wr
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61 games (4 seasons), 3,021 yards, 209 receptions, 20 td
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2008 Seattle Seahawks: Lawrence Jackson – De
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69 games (5 seasons), 19.5 bags, four forced escapes, 141 plated
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After having done the research for this particular piece, it should do good for lions fans that it was difficult to find particularly bad choices in n ° 28 since the merger of the league in 1970. The parquet floor of this slot machine is quite high, while the ceiling is the caliber of the fame of fame.
This article originally appeared on Lions Wire: Lions Draft 2025: a story of the 28th overall choice and its results
