The Lions Traded For Bucs CB Carlton Davis. Brad Holmes Is Cooking!
Major League Baseball needs to take a page out of NFL free agency season because this shit is exciting. I can barely keep up. The Lions had been relatively quiet up to this point, but they just added some much-needed secondary help. In general, there's so much I like about the Lions roster. They were one possession away from the Super Bowl last year. You don't need some total overhaul, but the one area that needs fixing is the secondary. It wasn't for lack of trying. CJ Gardner-Johnson missed a large majority of last season with an injury, which definitely hurt them, but even in the two playoff games they won, their secondary got torched. They just went out and added a veteran presence to the secondary, who immediately makes the defense better.
The Lions are in win-now mode, which is a rarity for an organization that has spent the majority of their existence in lose-now mode, so I don't really have much of an issue with trading away draft picks at this point. You have to do what you can to be the best team you can be next year, but only to give up a third-round pick to get back a veteran cornerback and two late-round picks when you have a GM who's done an excellent job of finding talent in the late rounds of the draft feels like a steal. It likely is the end for CJ Gardner-Johnson in Detroit. The Lions made it to the NFC championship game last year with him playing like five games, so I don't think it will be that big of a loss. I don't think the antics did him any favors, either.
I know that Lions fans were hoping for L'Jarius Sneed, and well, Detroit has a lot of cap space available; Sneed is owed 19.8 million this year following the franchise tag that the Chiefs placed on him. The Lions will have to pay Jared Goff at some point this off-season, and there have been a lot of rumors circulating about an Amon-Ra Saint Brown extension. I'm sure that Brad Holmes will continue to add defensive help in the draft, so getting a one-year stopgap like this, I think it's a great move.