This week’s opponent for the Detroit Lions, the New York Jets, features an impressive young defense headlined by a top-5 overall draft pick playing lights out as a rookie. Jets CB Sauce Gardner is playing some great football as a rookie and is helping spearhead a huge rise in the standings for the Jets. Naturally, that’s going to lead to some questions about if the Lions considered taking Gardner with the No. 2 pick in the 2022 NFL draft.
“We thought about a lot of different guys,” Campbell acknowledged. “But I never really felt like it went there for (GM) Brad (Holmes) and myself. We felt pretty comfortable with where we wanted to go with it.”
