The Lions spent their 3rd overall pick in last year’s draft for Okudah to be their CB1. This year’s draft is deep at CB if they really want to go that route in Day 2 or 3 to upgrade CB2. Gilmore is not the missing piece that’s going to make them into contenders overnight, and they’d have to pay him when they already are stuck with $41m in dead cap space this year. The Lions would almost certainly prefer an extra first rounder as opposed to a guy on the wrong side of 30, on the last year of his deal, looking for another big contract. And we’ve already seen with Jackson that teams would prefer to keep their second round pick rather than to give that up on top of trying to sign him. He doesn’t equal first round value either. To trade up with Detroit, it will take picks. Multiple early round picks.