On April 23, 1989, the Detroit Lions selected RB Barry Sanders with the No. 3 overall pick in the 1989 NFL Draft.
#OTD in 1989, @Lions drafted future Hall of Famer @BarrySanders.
Total hypothetical.
If YOU had to race prime Barry Sanders the length of a football field and your life depended on you winning, the head start you'd need would need to be ________ yards? pic.twitter.com/MtmcjY6xNu
— Pro Football Hall of Fame (@ProFootballHOF) April 23, 2022
After Sanders was selected by the Lions, Dan Patrick of ESPN eventually tracked him down for an interview.
Check it out.
Nation, is Sanders the greatest draft pick ever for the Detroit Lions?
NFL Draft Betting: What Is Kenny Pickett’s Most Likely Landing Spot?
The NFL Draft draws near, and the next generation of NFL talent is about to find their first NFL team.
To add to the excitement, we have no real shortage of NFL Draft betting opportunities at FanDuel Sportsbook.
The one I’m keying on here is the landing spot for Pittsburgh Panthers quarterback Kenny Pickett. Here are the odds for each team to draft Pickett as well as the team distribution we see over the 100 most recent mock drafts for Pickett, according to NFL Mock Draft Database.
Team to DraftKenny Pickett Past 100 Mocks FanDuel Sportsbook Odds Carolina Panthers 45.0% +175 New Orleans Saints 18.0% +200 Pittsburgh Steelers 19.0% +350 Seattle Seahawks 3.0% +1200 Tennessee Titans 2.0% +1600 Indianapolis Colts 0.0% +2000 Atlanta Falcons 3.0% +2000 Detroit Lions 6.0% +2000 Washington Commanders 2.0% +2000 Philadelphia Eagles 0.0% +2500 Houston Texans 0.0% +3000 The betting favorite — and the analysts’ favorite — to draft Pickett is the Carolina Panthers, a quarterback-needy team that has been a highly touted fit for Pickett for months now. Nearly half of the recent mocks (45.0%) pair up Pickett and the Panthers. That bests the implied probability of 36.4% based on the +175 odds. It’s a good pick.
But what if Carolina passes on Pickett? The second-ranked landing spot in frequency of mocks is — narrowly — the Pittsburgh Steelers, thus keeping Pickett in Pittsburgh. Of those 100 most recent mocks, 19 slate Pickett to the Steelers, though that 19.0% is a tick below the 22.2% implied probability of +350. Further, ESPN draft analyst Matt Miller suggests that the only quarterback the Steelers are sold on is Pickett. We could even see them try to move up to do so.
