ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Holding the No. 2 pick in last year's NFL draft, Lions general manager Brad Holmes understandably had an easier time narrowing down his options well ahead of making the selection. Even the previous year, his first on the job, the then-rookie GM had a concrete plan for the team's first-round choice at No. 7.
But this year is different. A week before the draft's first round, where the team is slated to make the sixth choice, Holmes and his staff are still wading through increased uncertainty about the cluster of talent they anticipate being available at that spot.
"I'll still say we're kind of allowing that to crystalize a little bit," Holmes said Thursday. "I will say we're closer now than we were at (last month's league meetings), but there's still work to be done. Every draft is different, and just like I told you guys last year, picking at two, we pretty much knew what that cluster was at that time.
