Mark Snyder, and Carlos Monarrez

Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Lions looked to Ann Arbor with their third-round NFL draft pick tonight, selecting Michigan center Graham Glasgow and adding interior help and maybe some motivation to push Travis Swanson.

Glasgow was a walk-on at Michigan, but ended up being the first Wolverine selected in this year's draft.

His selection at No. 95 ended up ahead of where most projected him, which was somewhere in the mid-100s overall, but there was a hint that the Lions were interested.

They had worked out Glasgow but, when there was a group workout late in the the draft process last week, Glasgow was not a participant.

Glasgow was appealing to teams because of his versatility, having played center and guard over the past three years, primarily center as a senior in 2015 and consistently rating as the the team's top offensive lineman game after game.

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“I think that a lot of teams sort of like that (I came to U-M as a walk-on) because they see that I wasn’t somebody who sort of came in and was like a guy in waiting for job,” Glasgow said at U-M’s pro day in March. “Like, I had to go out and earn it, really. I had to earn my scholarship, earn my starting position. And I think that a lot of teams sort of take that as a green flag.”

He had a red flag early in the process due to his two drunk-driving arrests, one on the road and one for violating his probation, and those were common questions, but Glasgow said he was always honest about them and teams then moved on to talk about football.

“Whenever I meet with a team, they talk about it,” he said. “And it’s really not tough. You just sort of tell them what happened. That’s all you can really do. They’ve read about it. They just want to see if you tell the truth.”

Glasgow said he has stopped drinking and has shed some weight and dropped his body fat to 17%.

The Lions' third-round pick was a compensatory pick due to Ndamukong Suh's free-agent departure last off-season.

Swanson hand inconsistent second season, when he took over as the full-time starter last year for Dominic Raiola. Coach Jim Caldwell and general manager Bob Quinn said at the NFL’s annual spring meeting this year that Swanson could face competition and with the drafting of Glagow, it’s clear he will.

Contact Mark Snyder: msnyder@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @mark__snyder.

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