Brad Holmes Comments After Selection of Blake Miller

Brad Holmes entered draft season with strong philosophical feelings about injuries and age concerns when evaluating players. He echoed many of those sentiments after the drafting of Blake Miller in Round 1.

Here is the full press conference video:

Here were Brad Holmes' opening thoughts:

"Obviously he's look he's big, he's tough, he's smart. He's a finisher. He has unbelievable football character, work ethic. I mean everything from a culture standpoint. He fits. That's the easy part. He's a good athlete and it's hard to find guys that can move like that that are finishers, which that's what he is.

And what's been interesting on him is he probably has no idea. But we've probably been watching Blake for about three years now and he literally has gotten better every single year. And so that's what that's what makes you really excited about a player like that that actually has a high floor, but he's gotten better every year.

And so coming to this level with our offensive line coach and our our ecosystem, I don't see any reason why he won't continue to get better. A lot of the buzzwords that that you guys talk about, grit, toughness, finishing, those are the words that he used with us, too. When you hear that, when you see that, what does that mean in terms of just a culture? Yeah, absolutely." - Brad Holmes

Here are some selected quotes along with thoughts from my Lions 2026 Round 1 Recap:

"We definitely got younger. That’s going to be big going forward.

We’re excited about the youth injection." - Brad Holmes

Holmes continues to stress that age is important in the construction of the roster. He previously went deep into age concerns in .