Detroit Lions: East-West Shrine showcases NFL draft talent, Senior Bowl
The Detroit Lions offseason continues with a preview of the Shrine Bowl and Senior Bowl and gives us a glimpse of what lies ahead. Game on!
The offseason is underway for the Detroit Lions. Kick In the Crotch Weekly has the scoop on everything you need to know about the Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine games! We’ll discuss some reasons to watch one or both of the upcoming All-Star games.
The NFL Draft evaluation process begins with watching prospects during the college football season and bowl games but these two games are a very important step prior to the Combine and Pro Days.
The East-West Shrine game is this coming Saturday, January nineteenth, and the Reese’s Senior Bowl is the following Saturday, January 26th. Both will feature players who will be available for the Detroit Lions to select starting with their eighth pick overall in the April selection meeting.
Reasons the games are important
We can put aside talk about free agency and last year’s record now to focus in on why college football’s last couple of games can be most meaningful to the NFL Draft. In February, the NFL Combine will commence, followed by workouts at many university campuses, called pro days. Here in January, though, we can get great information on many future Lions.
Of course, we do not know who those players will be. When general manager Bob Quinn has to decide what to do with a top ten pick, that makes for a lot of players to scout. In his year-end presser, Quinn admitted that having to be more prepared was a challenging part of having a high pick.
At stake is nothing short of the future of the franchise for the foreseeable period of time. The poor drafting of both the Matt Millen and Martin Mayhew staffs are still affecting the Lions right now. Lack of depth, poor starters in places, few tradeable players, all due to the lack of ability or desire of the previous general managers and their scouting personnel.