Lions Wire

In our last edition of the Lions Wire full mock draft for 2021, we explored the concept of trading up from No. 7. This time, we’re going in the other direction. Trading back is a wildly popular theory, but it proved much easier to think about and talk about than to actually pull off. I polled multiple trusted contacts (beat writers, fellow Wire editors, radio analysts) of every team with a pick between No. 10 and No. 19 with offers of trading the No. 7 selection. Without exception, every single response began with some variation of, “(Team X) is trying to trade back, too. We’re not really looking to move up, we want more picks.”