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The Detroit Lions use the 20th pick in the 2018 NFL Draft to select …

By Robert Jones

CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 30: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announces that the Tennessee Titans chose Marcus Mariota of the Oregon Ducks #2 overall during the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University on April 30, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 30: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announces that the Tennessee Titans chose Marcus Mariota of the Oregon Ducks #2 overall during the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University on April 30, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) /
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CHICAGO, IL – APRIL 30: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announces that the Tennessee Titans chose Marcus Mariota of the Oregon Ducks #2 overall during the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University on April 30, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
CHICAGO, IL – APRIL 30: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announces that the Tennessee Titans chose Marcus Mariota of the Oregon Ducks #2 overall during the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University on April 30, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) /

The 2018 NFL draft is finally here and tonight the Detroit Lions will make the first pick of the Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia era. So who will it be?

So here we are. The 2018 NFL draft has finally arrived and tonight we will find out just who the Detroit Lions will select with their first pick.

After acquiring several players in free agency, some who look like starters and many that seem to be depth players, the Lions still enter the draft with plenty of needs. But can anyone say for sure who general manager Bob Quinn and new head coach Matt Patricia will select?

In Bob Quinn’s short time here in Detroit we have learned that he believes that information should only be given on a need to know basis.

Sort of like, fans and the media don’t need to know.

For anyone paying attention, this would be the standard procedure in New England where Patriots head coach Bill Belichick believes in guarding information like it was gold at Fort Knox.

Only Bob Quinn, and definitely Matt Patricia, do so in a much more entertaining and personable way than Belichick.

However as we look at the roster they have assembled so far and listen to what little they aren’t saying and factor in who should be available, this pick could go a number of ways.

I would suggest that this pick has more possibilities of which way it could go than any Lions pick since… well since before Matt Millen was drafting a receiver in the first round every year.

Bob Quinn is a big believer in taking value when the Lions are on the clock. When value and need meet or at least come very close, then the possibilities open up. This year the biggest needs are at running back, offensive line and defensive line.

All three of those positions should be well represented when the Lions are on the clock at pick number 20.

So which way will they go?

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