Free Press sports writer Carlos Monarrez grades the Detroit Lions on each selection during the 2019 NFL draft:

Pick: Jahlani Tavai, Hawaii inside linebacker

Grade: D-minus

This is the second-round pick? This seems like a crazy reach. He’s an unknown player from a second-tier conference who missed his final six games with a shoulder injury, though he still had 82 tackles. He missed the Senior Bowl and NFL combine and was arrested in a nightclub altercation last year. It seems like they passed on more promising cornerbacks like Greedy Williams and Justin Layne to reach for Tavai.

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At 6-foot-2 and 240 pounds, he’s a big-framed, willing tackler. But even if the Lions are desperate to move Jarrad Davis outside it’s hard to understand why they had to draft him so early. This might be Bob Quinn’s strangest decision since he drafted a long snapper.

Carlos Monarrez's other draft grades:

Round 1, T.J. Hockenson, C-minus

Round 3, Will Harris, B

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Contact Carlos Monarrez at cmonarrez@freepress.com or follow him on Twitter @cmonarrez.