In case the Lions exchange any player amid the 2024 NFL Draft, an curiously candidate has been advertised up as a conceivable choice.
One of the items of having a great group is having a late first-round choose, just like the Detroit Lions have this year. Generally, they too do not have the kind of draft capital they’ve had in past years. After three picks within the top-75 this year, they won’t go on the clock again (for presently besides) until choose No. 164 within the fifth circular.
Of course exchanges around the draft board are conceivable, in case not likely. The thought of separating with a player to obtain a draft choose isn’t out of the address either, and the Lions are in a put where they have what looks like a overflow of talent/options at a few positions.
On that front, on his list of players the Lions players who may be exchanged amid the 2024 draft, Mike Payton of AtoZ Sports advertised a decently shocking, but curiously, plausibility.
Payton had linebacker Malcolm Rodrigues and tight James Mitchell on his list, but it’s the center candidate of the trio that hits a small distinctive.
Wide collector Kalif Raymond.
Here’s what Payton composed.
I do not need to see Kalif Raymond go similar to you do not, but the reality of the matter is that his usage truly dropped off in 2023 and the Lions may get what they utilized to induce from Raymond out of Jameson Williams. Couple that with the conviction that the Lions will more than likely draft a collector and guys like Donovan Peoples-Jones and Antoine Green’s parts ought to be greater. The Lions moreover marked Tre’Quan Smith some time recently free organization and he was strong ingenious donor for the Holy people when Dan Campbell was there.
“Raymond is the Lions punt returner, but they do have Maurice Alexander on the program as well and he includes a not too bad history of being a return man within the NFL and UFL. ”
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Would the Lions exchange Kalif Raymond?
After topping 45 gatherings and 575 yards in each of the past two seasons, Raymond fell to 35 catches for 489 yards final season. In a more apples-to-apples comparison to 2022, when he moreover played all 17 recreations, his hostile snap share fell from 49 percent to 30 percent. Indeed on the off chance that Raymond hadn’t cleared out the normal season finale with a knee injury, which kept him out of the complete playoff run, that snap share difference would have been emotional.
Where Raymond has his most prominent affect and esteem for the Lions is as a punt returner. He has found the middle value of at slightest 11.2 yards per punt return in each of the final three seasons, gaining a Moment Group All-Pro gesture for his work in 2022.
This time of the offseason doesn’t bring much within the way of damage news, since groups essentially aren’t together between the conclusion of the season and almost presently as deliberate offseason work begins. But Raymond’s knee harm was terrible sufficient that it didn’t appear like he was ever close to playing within the playoffs, and where he is health-wise right presently isn’t known freely.
The obscure status of his knee aside, Raymond is simple to tab as an odd-man out on the Lions’ wide recipient profundity chart-especially on the off chance that they draft a collector. In the event that he’s sound and the Lions are willing to consider trading him, which are both legit questions, there ought to be some groups who’d have intrigued.