Brad Holmes has made fashion declarations with his hooded sweatshirts for years, and the Detroit lions The Managing Director sent another message with his wardrobe on day 2 of the NFL 2055 draft.
Holmes and the rest of the Lions draft room wore black hooded sweatshirts with the letters “HWS” on the chest, with a line through the letters.
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The letters represent “size, weight, speed”, common vernacular in scouting to identify the prospects for tools, but something that Holmes indicated that he and lions valorize less than the others.
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“This is the opposite of the evaluation of the films and we are all in the evaluation of the films,” said Holmes. “And this is the difficult part of scouting. It is, the size, the weight speed is easy. The statistics are easy. A listed position is easy. But the evaluation of the film is difficult.”
The Lions won the defensive platform of the Ohio State Tyleik Williams in the first round of the draft Thursday and exchanged for the offensive line of Georgie Tate Ratledge during the Round 2 and the receiver of the Arkansas Isaac Teslaa during Tour 3 Friday.
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Holmes called Williams “a very agile athlete” at 6 feet 3 and 334 pounds and Teslaa received one of the highest Relative sports score grades I have already given a receiver after having executed a 4.43-second dashboard of 40 yards at 6-3 and 214 pounds, but Holmes have long declared that Lions players repel according to their football capacity and their organizational adjustment.
On Friday, he minimized the Lions’ decision to transmit on -board rushers through two days of the draft, saying: “It is more at the top of Y’All’s priority than your priority.”
Last year, Holmes and others in the Lions draft room wore sweatshirts that said “bad position”, a reference to the 2023 draft, when the lions were questioned for having taken a balloon, an out of ball, a tight end and security with their first four choices of recovery.
At the NFL 2023 combination, Holmes wore a white hooded sweatshirt that said “nasty” on the chest. He refused to share all the details of this sweatshirt other than saying that he was referring to a film.
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