{"id":14968,"date":"2025-05-01T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/14968\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:32:14","slug":"what-was-the-best-pick-in-the-detroit-lions-2025-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/14968\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the best pick in the Detroit Lions\u2019 2025 draft?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the 2025 NFL Draft<\/a> in the books, it\u2019s time to break down the Detroit Lions\u2019 class of seven players<\/a>. Over the next week and beyond, we\u2019ll be crushing tape, looking over stats and data, conferring with college writers and coaches, and looking to any and all resources to get to know the new Lions players better.<\/p>\n

But why not take a look at our own first impressions. I\u2019m not saying we have to grade the Lions\u2019 draft class immediately (of course, we will anyways). But there is something to be said about how we feel about picks in the moment. We can look back later and see why we were right wrong to feel that way, and course correct for the future. <\/p>\n

So today\u2019s Question of the Day is: <\/p>\n

What do you think was the Lions\u2019 best draft pick? <\/p>\n

My answer: I am going to answer this question more like \u201cmy favorite pick in the draft\u201d rather than which player is going to be best. Because, quite frankly, it\u2019s a lay up answer to say that first-round pick Tyleik Williams is their best pick. <\/p>\n

My favorite pick, without a doubt, was selected Boise State edge defender Ahmed Hassanein in the sixth round. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to sit here and try to convince you Hassanein is going to be an All-Pro pass rusher. I\u2019m not even sure he\u2019ll make the team. And I\u2019m not even picking this because they finally selected an edge defender. Personally, I wasn\u2019t hell bent on the Lions selecting a defensive end as some fans were, and I\u2019m also not going to pretend like grabbing a sixth-round guy is solving their starter\/depth issues there.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also not counting any of that out. <\/p>\n

Find me a recent Lions draft pick with a better origin story. Hassanein spent his formative years in Egypt with absolutely no knowledge of the game of football. He made it sound like he didn\u2019t even know it existed. But he was a superb athlete in everything else Egypt had to offer: swimming, CrossFit, boxing, wrestling, jiu-jitsu. <\/p>\n

Then after being convinced to live with some of his family in America, he found football and thrived. Without any formal training or a defensive line coach, he started dominating high school football. Then hr started dominating at camps before heading to college. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have a D-line coach. My brother taught me everything in the kitchen, just techniques,\u201d Hassanein told Lions media. \u201cI trained as a wide receiver, couldn\u2019t catch the ball. I trained as a linebacker, there was too much stuff going on. He just threw me at the D-line and just told me to go get the guy that has the ball. I was like, \u2018Perfect. See ball, get ball. I can do that.\u2019 I went in and started grabbing facemasks, throwing people, kicking people, jiu-jitsu flipping them. I didn\u2019t know what I was doing.<\/p>\n

\u201c[…] by the Lord\u2019s grace I received multiple D-1 offers, he started taking me to some camps, people started to know who I am, I started getting known, people started knowing who I am and people were asking, \u2018Who\u2019s this kid? He\u2019s only been playing football for two years.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The rest is history. It only took a couple years at Boise State before he became one of the most prolific pass rushers in school history. He posted 22.0 sacks and 32 tackles for loss in his last two years. The man is still learning the game, yet is one of the most productive pass rushers in this class… and he\u2019s also got the size (267 pounds) to set an edge.<\/p>\n

And is there a more Dan Campbell guy than someone crying over the phone after he was just drafted, convincing his coach that he\u2019ll DIE on the field for him? <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not going to be a fan favorite. He already is. <\/p>\n

What is your favorite pick in the draft? Vote in the poll below and share your answer in the comment section.<\/p>\n

Poll
\n Who is your favorite Lions pick in the 2025 draft?<\/p>\n

\n 8%\n <\/p>\n

DT Tyleik Williams<\/p>\n

(102 votes)<\/p>\n

\n 39%\n <\/p>\n

G Tate Ratledge<\/p>\n

(464 votes)<\/p>\n

\n 17%\n <\/p>\n

WR Isaac TeSlaa<\/p>\n

(204 votes)<\/p>\n

\n 6%\n <\/p>\n

G Miles Frazier<\/p>\n

(73 votes)<\/p>\n

\n 27%\n <\/p>\n

EDGE Ahmed Hassanein<\/p>\n

(318 votes)<\/p>\n

\n 0%\n <\/p>\n

WR Dominic Lovett<\/p>\n

(2 votes)<\/p>\n

1176 votes total<\/p>\n

Vote Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2025 NFL Draft in the books, it\u2019s time to break down the Detroit Lions\u2019 class of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2071],"tags":[1873,146,113,448,1262,2506,19,7,29,723,147,6,15,152,187,151,24,3227,1199],"class_list":{"0":"post-14968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-best","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroit-lions-draft","12":"tag-detroit-lions-opinion","13":"tag-detroitlions","14":"tag-draft","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-front-page","17":"tag-in","18":"tag-lions","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-nfl-draft","21":"tag-of","22":"tag-pick","23":"tag-pride","24":"tag-the","25":"tag-was","26":"tag-what"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114432124382075821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}