{"id":21714,"date":"2025-04-30T02:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=21714"},"modified":"2025-04-30T02:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:17:33","slug":"breaking-lions-predicted-to-select-all-big-ten-edge-in-way-too-early-2026-mock-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=21714","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Lions Predicted to Select All-Big Ten Edge in ‘Way Too Early’ 2026 Mock Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Lions were predicted to select an All-Big Ten edge rusher in a very early prediction for the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

The 2025\u00a0NFL Draft\u00a0has come and gone and the\u00a0Detroit Lions\u00a0still have one glaring need.<\/p>\n

They need somebody to start on the edge opposite\u00a0Aidan Hutchinson.<\/p>\n

After they decided not to address this spot in this year’s draft, they are currently looking at Marcus Davenport starting in that second spot.<\/p>\n

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That isn’t quite ideal for a team with\u00a0Super Bowl\u00a0aspirations.<\/p>\n

Pro Football Focus’ Max Chadwick and Dalton Wasserman\u00a0think the Lions will find a permanent solution not their problem in next year’s draft.<\/p>\n

In their way too early mock draft for the 2026 draft, they predicted the Lions would select\u00a0Penn State\u00a0edge Dani Dennis-Sutton with the 27th pick.<\/p>\n

Dennis-Sutton took a while to start putting up numbers in college, but he put together the best run of his career when it mattered most for the Nittany Lions.<\/p>\n

He had seven tackles for loss during the College Football Playoff, including three against Boise State as Penn State made Ashton Jeanty look human in the Fiesta Bowl.<\/p>\n

He also 4.5 sacks in the Playoff, with two in the semifinal against\u00a0Notre Dame.<\/p>\n

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He’ll be expected to make even more of an impact in 2025 as he becomes the team’s top option off the edge with Abdul Carter now in the\u00a0NFL.<\/p>\n

Unless this Lions have something truly unexpected planned, this will still be a need for them ahead of next year’s draft.<\/p>\n

Any veteran option they will hopefully add this offseason will only be a short-term solution.<\/p>\n

They just drafted Ahmed Hassanein, but as a sixth-round pick \u00a0it would surprising for him to be that guy.<\/p>\n

Luckily, the team took care of some of its future needs already in the 2025 draft, which will allow them to focus on this spot in their lineup in 2026.<\/p>\n

This far out it is just about impossible to know which prospects will be looking at in a given range of the draft, but it seems very likely the Lions will still be looking for an edge and Dennis-Sutton looks like he could be a good fit there for them.<\/p>\n