On the final day of the 2025 NFL Draft, LSU guard Miles Frazier sat by the phone waiting for it to ring, wondering where his professional career would begin. And as he ran through the possible landing spots in his head, one team felt like the least likely destination of all: the Detroit Lions.

Detroit hadn’t brought him in for a top-30 visit. They hadn’t checked in much throughout the process. There was no significant buzz, no real indication that they were interested. Still, his former LSU teammate — defensive lineman Mekhi Wingo, whom Detroit drafted in the sixth round a year earlier — kept telling him, “You might get drafted here.”

Frazier would laugh it off. “No way,” he’d tell Wingo. But on Apr. 26, the Lions flipped their sixth-round pick (No. 182) and a seventh-rounder (No. 228) t

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