Filed under: Lions, NFL Training CampThe Detroit Lions have had a whopping eight Top-10 draft picks in the last nine years, a stark demonstration of their enduring futility. This year's first-round pick, Ndamukong Suh, who agreed to a contract Tuesday after a brief training camp holdout, may have the highest expectation of any of them.
Suh is set to sign a five-year contract worth more than $60 million, according to multiple reports. Fox Sports' Jay Glazer reported that $40 million of the deal will be in guaranteed money. Although the cash paid to unproven rookies in the NFL is obscene, that contract is the welcome news in Detroit, where a sense of concern was starting to set in that Suh's agents and the Lions weren't making any progress on a deal.
But now that the deal is done, Suh is going to have to deliver on extraordinarily high expectations.
It might sound crazy to say that Suh -- a defensive tackle -- is joining the Lions with higher expectations than Joey Harrington or Matthew Stafford, both of whom were drafted with the thought that they'd be franchise quarterbacks. It might also sound crazy to say that Suh has higher expectations on him than any of the four -- four! -- Top-10 wide receivers the Lions have taken in recent years. Every one of those receivers -- Charles Rogers, Roy Williams, Mike Williams and Calvin Johnson -- arrived in Detroit with a highlight reel of college catches and the promise of producing the kind of fireworks that a defensive tackle just can't deliver.
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