{"id":763336,"date":"2026-02-19T23:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/763336\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:14:29","slug":"why-nfl-media-analyst-daniel-jeremiah-thinks-clemson-edge-t-j-parker-is-a-good-fit-for-detroit-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/763336\/","title":{"rendered":"Why NFL Media analyst Daniel Jeremiah thinks Clemson EDGE T.J. Parker is a good fit for Detroit Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s another exciting class with some of the strengths really being along the defensive line, particularly the edge rushers,&#8221; Jeremiah said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions return All-Pro <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/aidan-hutchinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aidan Hutchinson<\/a>, who had a career-high 14.5 sacks last season and is one of the best edge players in the NFL, but they could lose <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/al-quadin-muhammad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Al-Quadin Muhammad<\/a> and his 11.0 sacks from last season as he&#8217;s headed toward unrestricted free agency. Josh Paschal and Ahmed Hassanein are under contract next season on the edge, but Detroit could certainly look to free agency or the draft &#8211; or both &#8211; to help supplement the other edge spot opposite Hutchinson.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah said the edge talent is so deep in this draft that teams will be able to get starters well into Day 2 if they go another route in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a really good group,&#8221; Jeremiah said of this year&#8217;s edge class, with Reese, David Bailey (Texas Tech) and Rueben Bain Jr. (Miami) his top three.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah also touched on a number of other topics, as follows \u2013<\/p>\n<p>On Detroit potentially taking an OT at No. 17: &#8220;Sounds like they&#8217;ve been doing a lot of homework on free agent tackles,&#8221; Jeremiah said of Detroit. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see what happens with <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/taylor-decker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">(Taylor) Decker<\/a>, but it feels like there could definitely be a need there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re looking at pick No. 17, Monroe Freeling (Georgia) makes a lot of sense there as someone who&#8217;s kind of got the excellent size. There&#8217;s some torque and physicality and aggressiveness in the way he plays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like Blake Miller (Clemson) a lot. I would imagine the fact he&#8217;s got 54 starts and is a high school wrestler with 35-inch arms; he&#8217;s going to bench over 30 (reps) and probably jump over 30 (inches). I would imagine that would be popular and highly thought of in that room for the kind of stuff (Detroit) values. Those two guys to me would make a lot of sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s another exciting class with some of the strengths really being along the defensive line, particularly the edge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,416,147,5515,415,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-763336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroitlions","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-news-road-to-the-draft-yoy","15":"tag-news-twentyman","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116099839718856773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763336","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=763336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}