(03-16-2022, 06:43 AM)Caldrac Wrote: DJ may end up being a good fit up there in Detroit. That's a tough division to play in though. Traveling around up there during the winter months can be taxing physically between Chicago and Green Bay. Hopefully he holds up physically. It's just a one year deal so he may just be looking to dip his toes in 2022 to potentially deepen his pockets in 2023 as a viable deep threat on a potentially up and coming Lions team.

Maybe he just didn't want to be here anymore as well. Until anything is reported we really have no idea what was being said or conducted behind the scenes. I would have personally rather seen that contract that was placed on Zay Jones placed on DJ instead though. I think this now puts Baalke and Pederson in a position to where they have to invest a draft pick in a receiver like Christian Watson or Alec Pierce. Need that receiver with some length to him who can go up and get it on the outside for sure.

While I do believe there's still a good chance the Lions are going to draft a WR with one of the 5 picks the team has in the first 3 Round of the draft,  the urgency has lessened because of the FA addition of D.J. Chark and re-signing of Josh Reynolds last week.  

There have been rumors that the Lions are very high on WR Christian Watson.  The Lions have picks # 32 and # 34.  It's realistically possible that the addition of Chark (even factoring in a 1 year contract) could be the difference in the Jaguars being able to draft Watson with pick # 33.

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