What kind of player is the Detroit Lions likely to land when they make the final pick of the first round in Thursday night’s NFL draft? A look back at all the players who have gone No. 32 overall since 2000 offers up a very mixed bag of results
The 32nd pick has been traded several times this century. That’s technically already the case for the Lions, who acquired the pick in 2022 from the Matthew Stafford/Jared Goff trade in 2021.
Remember the NFL didn’t have 32 teams until 2002 when the Texans were born, so the 32nd pick in 2000 and 2001 was the first pick of the second round those years. It was also a second-rounder in both 2008 (Spygate) and 2016 (Deflategate) when the New England Patriots forfeited their first-round picks for violating league rules.
Here’s who has gone at 32 since 2000.
