With Today's Second-Day Picks, the Lions should...

By position, go...

DE (Yep, again) -- Tank Carradine (probably gone in picks 33-35, although he is coming off an injury)/Margus Hunt (a huge man)/Alex Okafor/Damontre Moore/Sam Montgomery -- Imagine a Lions front four of Ansah, Carradine or Hunt, Suh and Fairley.  If it's true that defense lives and dies based on the disruption that starts with pressure at the line, well, this would be an amazing front four for, potentially, some time.  Ronnell Lewis may have screwed himself out of a job with his arrest, but there's still fine DE depth with Jason Jones and Willie Young rotating in, while C. J. Mosley and someone else bring DT up in depth. 

LB, preferably OLB -- Arthur Brown/Corey Lemonier/Mantei Te'o -- Big need.  I love all these three potential picks.  But I really want to see the Crazy World of Arthur Brown take over on the strong side.

T -- Menelik Watson or Terron Armstead.  Their weakness, position-wise, now.  Still can't believe Fisher, Joeckel AND Johnson all were gone in the first four.  Strange days.

G/C -- Larry Warford merits consideration.  I like Barrett Jones if he lasts to our third round pick, or maybe Schwenke.  Look, at this point, the Lions line, from LT to RT, is probably Fox/Sims/Raiola/Reiff/Hilliard, and that's awful.  Really awful.  I wish we could've gotten about two to three more top 100 picks somehow.

DB -- I would favor depth at safety ahead of CB, only because we already have Bentley, Greenwood, Bartell and Green as candidates opposite Houston, and because, much as I love my fellow Bronco Louis Delmas, he's been hurt since I saw WMU beat Illinois at Ford Field several years back, and he only knows one way to play: smash mouth.  Plus, I'm high on Cyprien.  Plenty of CBs if you must; I think I'd take Banks, although I like Slay (great football name), Wreh-Wilson and Ryan too.

WR/TE -- I would consider Escobar, Ertz or Kelce in the third round, esp. Escobar.  And while I do like Woods, Allen and (somewhat) Hunter, I just hate the thought of spending a high pick on these positions again when, I'll say it once more, our O-Line is Fox/Sims/Raiola/Reiff/Hilliard.

Or, could they take Geno Smith for trade bait?  Wait -- no, they couldn't.