Monday Morning Rundown: 04/06/26

Welcome to The Grey Manes Monday Morning Rundown, a collection of news and notes form the prior week that impact the Lions, the NFL or whatever else catches my eye.

The Riddell Retro Collection

Lions Players, Coaches and Team

• Dan Campbell at the Owner's Meeting said the Lions would not partake in joint practices this summer

• The Detroit Lions are at five Global Marketing Partnerships including Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Austria and Brazil

• Lions likely to move Penei Sewell permanently to Left Tackle

• Rod Wood's Media Session at the NFL Annual Meetings had some good nuggets

• The Lions asked Frank Ragnow to pay back a portion of his Signing bonus, and a bunch of people lost their minds (again)

• Did Taylor Decker have the wrong number for Brad Holmes when trying to connect with him?

• The Lions have (unofficially) given out quite a few numbers per NFL Jersey Number account on X, although the absence of 68 is glaring

• Looks like WR Jackson Meeks will be getting a new number, as his no. 83 from last season has been unofficially announced for TE Tyler Conklin. He wore #9 (Currently on Rakestraw) with Georgia and #7 (Currently Open) with Syracuse

Rumors, Nuggets and Speculation

• NFL Draft Caps have been announced, except for the LA Rams. They have inside themes also and pins

• ESPN has a comprehensive list of programming leading up to the Draft, including six Mock Draft specials

• The 2029 Super Bowl is heading back to Las Vegas. The second time in the last five years it has been hosted there.

Mock Draft Season

• The Grey Manes Mock Draft 1.0 was released

• ESPN's Matt Miller has a full seven-round Mock Draft -1st Georgia OT Monroe Freeling; 2nd UCF EDGE Malachai Lawrence

• NFL Draft on SI Justin Melo 1st Round Mock - 1st Utah OT Spencer Fano

• Pride Of Detroit's Erik Schlitt Seven-Round Mock Draft - 1st Clemson OT Blake Miller; 2nd Illinois EDGE Gabe Jacas

• Rob Rank at Fox Sports All Trades Mock Draft - Trade back to 19 (for a 4th) 1st UTAH OT Caleb Lomu

• Lance Zierlein at NFL.com Mock Draft 3.0 - 1st Alabama OT Kayden Proctor

• Marcus Mosher of Fansided with a 1st Round Mock - 1st Alabama OT Kayden Proctor

• Bruce Feldman of the NY Times Mock Draft - 1st Alabama OT Kayden Proctor

• Mike Payton at AtoZ Sports How the Lions Draft Mock Draft - 1st Clemson OT Blake Miller; 2nd Illinois EDGE Gabe Jacas

• ESPN Three-Round Mock Draft with Yates, Kiper, Miller and Reid - 1st Georgia OT Monroe Freeling (Kiper); 2nd Michigan EDGE Jaishawn Barham (Miller)

• Movin' the Chains Pay Kirwin and Jacob Hester Mock Draft - 1st Georgia OT Monroe Freeling (Kirwin)

• NFL.com's Chad Reuter Five-Round Mock Draft - Trade up to 13 (for a 5th & 2027 3rd) 1st UTAH OT Spencer Fano; 2nd Texas LB Anthony Hill Jr.; 4th EDGE Utah Logan Fano; 4th Duke Center Brian Parker II; 5th (Trade 157 to rams who take QB Allar) ; 5th North Dakota St QB Cole Payton

Things I think are Noteworthy

• Costco taking their famous Hot Dog Combo on a new adventure

• I'm old enough to remember when they basically outlawed the Oklahoma Drill, and you have dipshits at a DI FCS school doing stupid stuff like this.

• Eagles are having issues with Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown and Future Dead Cap dollars, is their reign over?

• The NFL and Topps have agreed on a new long-term deal for trading cards

• Texas Rangers 9th Inning Nachos in a sombrero you can wear ($40)?