Draft: The Lions have plenty of needs to address in this year’s NFL Draft but No. 17 might put them in a unique position to draft the top center or guard in this year’s class.<\/p>\n
ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. mocked Penn State guard Olaivavega Ioane to Detroit at No. 17 in his first mock draft of the offseason.<\/p>\n
Top center and guard prospects who could be available in the first two days of this year’s NFL Draft include: Ioane (G; Penn State), Connor Lew (C; Auburn), Emmanuel Pregnon (G, Oregon), Logan Jones (C; Iowa), Keylan Rutledge (G; Georgia Tech), Jake Slaughter (C; Florida), DJ Campbell (G; Texas).<\/p>\n
Quotable: “Seeing how this offensive line has played over the last few years and not performing as a unit like we wanted to or hoped to, definitely lights a fire under you,” Ratledge said after the season. “We need to get going.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draft: The Lions have plenty of needs to address in this year’s NFL Draft but No. 17 might…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[644,146,113,2506,7,1520,416,6290,147,6286,2281,415,6,628,24928],"class_list":["post-711455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-christian-mahogany","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-graham-glasgow","tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","tag-kayode-awosika","tag-lions","tag-michael-niese","tag-miles-frazier","tag-news-twentyman","tag-nfl","tag-tate-ratledge","tag-trystan-colon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115972773423845795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711455","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=711455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}