Each week on the Detroit Lions Breakdown Podcast, fans send in mailbag questions. This week we changed things up a bit by adding special guest Scott Bischoff to the episode and ran short on time for questions.

Most questions will be carried over to next weeks podcast, but a select few have been picked as topics for mailbag articles including this one from Kalsarikännit Al:

This is a good exercise I usually do during NFL draft season because it allows you to examine the roster in the same manner as general manager Bob Quinn does.

Outside of Quinn’s first-round selection, the rest of the draft picks typically are part of an 18-month approach, meaning Quinn isn’t expecting them to be major contributors until 18-months from the draft or at the start of their second season.

Al asks us to look a little deeper than Quinn’s 18-months but the basic concepts of the exercise remain the same, there just needs to be a bit more projection as there will be significantly fewer players signed on the roster three years from now.

Of the 53 players most likely to make the roster this season, 21 are under contract through 2020. I have not included any undrafted free agents — if they make the team this year would be signed through 2020 — because I have yet to see them in person during training camp.