Lions Wire

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! March 17th falls less than six weeks until the 2024 NFL draft kicks off in Detroit. We’re a few days into free agency now, which alters some team needs from last week’s mock. This week’s first-round projections are already jumbled by a late-week trade involving the Minnesota Vikings and Houston Texans. The logical next step is hypothesized here, with the Vikings bundling and moving up to land their successor for Kirk Cousins. Beyond that, I kept the trades to a minimum on this edition. As always, these reflect an idea of what could happen in the NFL draft, not necessarily what choices I would make. That’s the difference between rankings and projections.