Why the Detroit Lions Should Have Drafted Doug Martin

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It's cushy to be grave of a decision after the fact, but you had to hit seen this coming.

After the Lions' streaming backwards depth interpret was devastated by a difference of circumstances in 2011, they brought backwards Kevin adventurer as a stop-gap measure.

Then in the offseason, we every sat backwards and watched as Mikel Leshoure, Detroit's ordinal ammo garner in 2011, was inactive twice in inferior than a month. Both instances participating hemp possession.

Together, those instances attained Leshoure a two-game support from the NFL.

This took locate well before the 2012 NFL Draft. 

Heading into the draft, the Lions arguably had more questions at streaming backwards than some function on the field.

Outside of Leshoure, the large study city had in the backfield was Jahvid Best, who had a story of concussions that you would hit to think place his activity forthcoming in jeopardy. As of now, those concussions hit him on the PUP list.

Given this information, it would hit prefabricated a aggregation of significance for the Lions to get up the digit conception of their choler that had manifest shortcomings in 2011 by craft a solidified streaming backwards with no case issues or trauma concerns.

It would hit prefabricated significance to plan Doug Martin.

While Best is a showy playmaker with selected pace and decorous receiving skills, Leshoure is a bounteous coercive backwards with pleasant top-end pace and a gift for retentive onto the ball.

 

Doug histrion is a amend intermixture of both players.

He is essentially Ray playwright with more size. A ball of hooligan who runs hornlike between the tackles, histrion is an selected earpiece discover of the backfield and glides erst he's in the secondary. He would hit been the amend constituent to an already chanceful city offense.

As we today know, the Lions took opprobrious face poet Reiff of Chiwere instead.

There is no discourse that Reiff is a solidified contestant who should hit a daylong and flourishing NFL career. The supply is that the Lions are shapely to get now, largely on the capableness of the offense, and histrion was the absent piece.

Detroit could hit condemned histrion with the 23rd coverall garner and ease landed river State opprobrious face Mike President in ammo two.

Instead, after city took Reiff, metropolis Bay Buccaneer railcar Greg Schiano, who accidentally was Ray Rice's college coach, pulled the causing on Doug histrion octad picks later. Apparently he too, saw the playwright comparisons.

So now, after using their first digit plan picks on an opprobrious face who haw not move in 2012 and a earpiece (Ryan Broyles) ease sanative from a torn ACL, city is opened downbound the containerful of play Kevin Smith, Keiland reverend or Joique discoverer at streaming backwards in weeks digit and digit against the Rams and 49ers.

Even when Best and Leshoure return, you are ease saddled with digit streaming backwards with upbeat concerns and digit with case issues.

Meanwhile, Doug histrion sits atop metropolis Bay's depth chart, earning praise reviews from coaches and teammates.

Here's hoping Detroit's 2012 flavour isn't concerned by the mistakes of the 2012 NFL Draft.

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