Detroit Lions need to keep their poker face to the last minute

The Detroit Lions have an opportunity to add valuable assets in the draft, but it will take a good poker face and proper timing for it to pay off.

There is much at stake for the Detroit Lions in the 2020 NFL draft. Not only the future of general manager Bob Quinn and head coach Matt Patricia are riding on how well they make their selections, but the future of the franchise as well.

It sounds dramatic, but if the mighty Quinn and Patricia fail in the draft and subsequently next season, then a new regime will be riding into town and if that regime doesn’t feel like the Lions have any building blocks to work with, then expect another rebuilding project from the ground up.

Something every Lions fan is tired of hearing. This down-trodden franchise has been rebuilding since 1957 and hasn’t really come close to figuring it out.

Now Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia are down to their final straw. Following what has been a plentiful free agency period where they signed as many pieces as possible to fill Detroit’s many holes, there is still one quality sorely lacking on the Lions roster; play-makers.

For everyone who says the Lions roster is horrible, it’s not. But it does lack play-makers. Something teams don’t acquire in free agency without paying an arm and leg for. That’s why the draft is so important.

Teams that draft play-makers and develop them, become winners. Teams that can’t find play-makers in the draft continue to struggle and lose. Just like our very own Lions.

So the upcoming draft is very important to this franchise in many ways. Especially given that the Lions hold the number three overall pick. How they use that blue-chip will dictate their future success or failure more than any other selection they have unless they uncover some diamonds in the rough after the first round. That being said, what should the Lions do with their first pick?