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Lions GM talks about “trading up”
Saturday, April 20, 2019

(ALLEN PARK) - Bob Quinn has been very comfortable making trades throughout his tenure as general manager of the Detroit Lions. It can be in training camp or at the trade deadline, in the offseason or during the draft. He’s usually very willing to make a move. Quinn is likely to be the same this year during the NFL draft; he has been very open about his interest in moving down if the right situation fits. Moving up, however, is something entirely different. Quinn says there are a couple players right up at the top that you would obviously love to have. He says he doesn't think he has enough ammunition to get up there. Being in the top 10, though, is a new place for Quinn. A team he has been a part of hasn’t been in a top-10 position since the 2001 draft after his first year in the league, when New England took Richard Seymour at No. 6. Quinn was a player personnel assistant at the time, so he had no say in decision-making. So this will be his first go at a top-10 pick, if he keeps it. And he’d like it to be his last, at least of his team’s own doing.

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