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LIONS PLAN TO PICK JOHNSON
Adam Schefter of NFL Network reports that the Lions have decided that, barring a blockbuster offer, they will use the No. 2 overall pick in the draft -- and they will select receiver Calvin Johnson if, as expected, he is available.
Schefter says that offensive coordinator Mike Martz was one of the key cogs in the decision, based on his explanation to the the powers-that-be as to how he would use Johnson.
We'd previously heard that the Lions will draft Johnson and then maybe trade him. But maybe, just maybe, the Lions will use their fourth first-round pick in the past decade on Johnson, and keep him.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm
The pick itself is a good one but what makes it so crazy is that by my count doesn't that make it four wide receivers taken in the first round in five years by the Lions. This team is a joke.