Myles Murphy

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(05-08-2023, 03:08 PM)depthchart Wrote: .

If I remember right, Offensive Line was what a lot of Bengals Fans and Mock Drafts expected the Bengals to take and Penei Sewell was projected to end up being a Bengal by tons of people. Sewell went 7th to Detroit and Chase went 5th to the Bengals.

Chase exploded onto the NFL scene and I heard one Detroit fan on television complaining after that season that they took boring O-line while the Bengals took the flashy wide receiver and were having success while Detroit was going 3 - 13 and 1.  They were wishing that their Team would have got the chance to get Chase. 

I believe it was Jalen Rose (a Detroit fan) on his show called Jalen and Jacoby that was saying it.

They may be liking Sewell a lot more now since their Team is doing better and Sewell is playing well.

Yea now that the Lions have the OL pretty solid (PFF has their OL ranked 3rd in league), they can now start focusing on weapons.

Back in 2021, they didn't really have any true outside threats.
They had rookie Amon-Ra St. Brown in the slot and also TJ Hockenson, but no real outside WRs.

Then last year, they added Jameson Williams, but he was injured before the season even started. They also had DJ Chark, who was a fine 2nd or 3rd option in the passing game. But they still lacked some firepower to really have a good offense, as Jared Goff isn't an upper-echelon guy. He needs weapons.

But now this year to go along with Williams (after 6-game suspension), Marvin Jones back to cover the outside, and St. Brown in the slot, they got Sam LaPorta and Jahmyr Gibbs in the draft.
Maybe this is the year we finally see the Lions break that playoff win drought.