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(08-22-2024, 01:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Quite the rabbit hole to go down but it's quite possible. We could have taken Penei Sewell in the first and then got a compliment to Tee in the later rounds. Then we wouldn't have wasted a 2nd Rounder on Jackson Carman. 

Keep something in mind.  In '21, we won the division at 10-7.  The Steelers were the runners up at 9-7-1.  Any additional regular season loss puts us the #7 seed traveling to the #2 seed.  So, our first playoff game would have been at Arrowhead.  

Also, Chase had set the team single season receiving record.  

The best WR taken after Round 1 was Amon Ra St. Brown, ironically, also drafted by the Lions.  How did the Lions do after drafting your hypothetical alternative?  They finished '21 3-13-1, dead last in the NFC.  So, huge stretch to say Sewell+WR later would yield similar results.  

Of course, the Lions also made Sewell the highest paid T in the league this off-season, so if we had taken that route, we may very well find ourselves right back here again, just with a different player.