Detroit Lions take Aidan Hutchinson at No. 2, trade up to get Jameson Williams with 12th pick in NFL draft.
The Detroit Lions, as expected, took Michigan defensive end Aidan Hutchinson with the No. 2 overall pick in the NFL draft, then made a
surprising move by trading up to the No. 12 pick to land Alabama wide receiver Jameson Williams.
The Lions also got the No. 46 pick in their swap with the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for picks Nos. 32, 34 and 66.
Lions general manager Brad Holmes said throughout this past season that he couldn’t escape the chatter of fans pushing him to select Hutchinson,
even while casually dropping in and out of restaurants near the team’s practice facility.
Way before enjoying an All-America career at Michigan, where he was named a 2021 Heisman Trophy finalist, Hutchinson played defensive end,
tight end, offensive lineman and long-snapper at Divine Child High School in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
He was born in Plymouth, which is less than 30 miles from Ford Field.
“It’s always great to get the hometown favorite, but I know there’s a lot of fanfare for Aidan,” Holmes said.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have traded seventh-year cornerback Carlton Davis to the Detroit Lions,
landing a premium Day Two pick in the 2024 NFL Draft in the process.
The Buccaneers and Lions agreed to the swap on Monday but it could not be finalized or reported by the teams until after the new league year began at 4:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
In exchange for Davis, a 2024 sixth-round pick (#201) and a 2025 sixth-round pick the Buccaneers received a 2024 third-round pick, number 92 overall.
Originally a second-round pick by the Buccaneers in 2018, Davis played in 76 games over six seasons in Tampa, starting all but one of them.
Last year he played in 12 regular season games, missing five due to toe and groin injuries and a concussion, and also started both playoff contests.
His regular season totals included 52 tackles, two interceptions and nine passes defensed and he added 11 stops and two pass deflections in the postseason.