{"id":871175,"date":"2026-04-21T12:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871175\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:45:58","slug":"2026-nfl-mock-drafts-3-dueling-detroit-lions-mocks-with-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871175\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL mock drafts: 3 dueling Detroit Lions mocks with trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With just days until the 2026 NFL Draft, the PODcast crew opted to turn our draft preview episode into an all-out mock draft competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Create the best Detroit Lions four-round mock draft using the following rules:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With those rules in place, here\u2019s what each of us came up with:<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Reisman\u2019s four-round mock:<\/p>\n<p>Meko Scott\u2019s four-round mock<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Mathews\u2019 four-round mock<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you want to hear us discuss each mock draft, why we made the moves we did, and break down each prospect we selected, make sure you listen to the entire episode on your favorite podcasting platform or use the Spotify embed below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the meantime, discuss you favorite of the three drafts? Who won? Who had the worst draft? Call them out in the comment section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With just days until the 2026 NFL Draft, the PODcast crew opted to turn our draft preview episode&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,448,5105,4970,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-871175","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-detroit-lions-draft","11":"tag-detroit-lions-mock-draft","12":"tag-detroit-lions-podcasts","13":"tag-detroitlions","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-lions","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116442769257156566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871175","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=871175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}