Lions exec takes swipe at Packers as Green Bay readies for NFL Draft

The rivalry betwixt the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers burns reddish blistery adjacent successful the offseason.

Lions president Rod Wood made definite to propulsion immoderate kindling connected the occurrence connected Tuesday erstwhile helium talked astir the NFL Draft taking spot successful Green Bay pursuing the lawsuit successful Detroit past year. Thousands of radical are expected to be the lawsuit again this twelvemonth successful Wisconsin.

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Flags promoting the NFL Draft connected April 19, 2025, astatine Leicht Memorial Park successful Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Sarah Kloepping/USA Today Network-Wisconsin via Imagn Images)

Wood took a changeable astatine the Packers portion speaking astatine an yearly draught luncheon successful Detroit.

"Trying to get the NFL to see bringing it backmost (to Detroit) due to the fact that I don't deliberation they'll ever apical it," Wood said, via the Detroit Free Press. "There's nary mode Green Bay volition travel close. They'll decorativeness 2nd or, arsenic I said to Brad (Galli), they'll decorativeness 3rd similar they did past year."

The draught had 775,000 radical successful attendance implicit 3 days, mounting a grounds initially made successful 2019 erstwhile it was held successful Nashville, Tennessee.

The Vince Lombardi statue overlooks the NFL Draft signifier arsenic operation crews enactment to implicit the operation connected April 21, 2025, successful Green Bay. (Sarah Kloepping/USA Today Network-Wisconsin via Imagn Images)

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A motion for the Packers Everywhere Draft Haus, which volition beryllium unfastened during the NFL Draft, is pictured successful the Lambeau Field parking batch connected April 19, 2025, successful Green Bay. (Sarah Kloepping/USA Today Network-Wisconsin via Imagn Images)

Green Bay, the smallest marketplace successful the NFL, is reportedly expected to person astir 250,000 travel into the metropolis for the event.

The NFL Draft is the archetypal large lawsuit to footwear disconnected the caller season. Despite NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and others conscionable announcing a database of picks made by teams, fans flock to it each twelvemonth and it draws a monolithic assemblage connected television.

A partition of squad helmets is connected show successful the assemblage structure connected the NFL Draft field successful the Green Bay Packers' Titletown District connected April 21, 2025, successful Aswaubenon, Wisconsin. (Sarah Kloepping/USA Today Network-Wisconsin via Imagn Images)

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The Lions, who won the NFC North past season, person the 28th prime of the archetypal round. The Packers person the 23rd.

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