3 dueling Detroit Lions mock drafts with trades

DETROIT, MI - APRIL 25: The Detroit Lions make their pick during Day 1 of the NFL Draft on April 25, 2024 at Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza in Detroit, MI. (Photo by John Smolek/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

With just days until the 2026 NFL Draft, the PODcast crew opted to turn our draft preview episode into an all-out mock draft competition.

Here was the task:

Create the best Detroit Lions four-round mock draft using the following rules:

• Instead of using PFF’s big board, we utilized Wide Left’s consensus big board to guide the automatic selections around the Lions’ picks.
• You are not allowed to pick a player listed higher on the consensus big board than your draft position. For example, if Vega Ioane (13th on the big board) was available 17th overall, he could not be selected. This way, one of us couldn’t take advantage of an unrealistic player dropping. We wanted an even playing field.
• No limit on trades, but try to make it somewhat realistic.

With those rules in place, here’s what each of us came up with:

Jeremy Reisman’s four-round mock:

• Round 1, Pick 17: Georgia OT Monroe Freeling
• Round 2, Pick 57 (trade down): Arizona DB Treydan Stukes
• Round 3, Pick 77 (trade up): Michigan EDGE/LB Jaishawn Barham
• Round 4, Pick 128: Southeastern Louisiana DT Kaleb Proctor

Trade down:

• Lions received: Pick 57, Pick 89
• Bears received: Pick 50

Trade up: