Thirty-one other rooms let Ennis Rakestraw Jr. slide, and the Lions were the ones holding the card at the 73rd pick. Highway robbery. It does the job without flash, and the B+ reflects it.

That offensive lineman hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall. The dealing tilted against them, just enough to notice.

It is a bet on later, and a defensible one for a team playing the long game.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.