Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz didn’t say one way or the other if the team plans to sign New Orleans Saints defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove to an offer sheet.
The restricted free agent paid a visit to the Lions last week where he got a physical and the team got the “ball rolling,” Schwartz told Tom Kowalski of MLive.com.
Schwartz didn’t say it’s a move the Lions are going to make, but from the sounds of things they’re definitely headed in that direction and given the state of their defensive line, you know what, it would be a good move.
“You know the guy he reminded me the most of? Kevin Carter,' Schwartz said. "He'd probably play end on first and second down and then rush from the inside on third down. He's still young. I think at some point he could be a full-time tackle.
"What he is now is an end who moves down to a rush role. He's a really athletic guy. He would fit in both of those roles.'
The trick for the Lions is going to be finding an agreement with Hargrove and crafting an offer sheet such that the Saints can’t or don’t want to match it. If the Lions sign him and the Saints decline to match the contract, Detroit would have to fork over a third-round pick. The deadline for RFA’s to sign offer sheets is April 15, a little more than three weeks away.
If the Lions were able to add Hargrove and then use the No. 2 pick in the draft on a defensive tackle, their front, with new end Kyle Vanden Bosch, would look dramatically different.
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Hargrove is a very good player just getting ready to get into his prime years in his career, is he worth a 3rd round pick, yeah, he could be a potential pro bowl player and 3rd round pro bowlers are very hard to find, you would be happy to get a player who starts in the third round, and we all know us lions fans would be thrilled just to have a starter, I just hope that this move wont effect us from getting SUH!! Cause a player like him dosent come around too often, and I'm not sold on Okung. I saw him play and wasn't impressed at all in a lot of his games, he's average to me! Best case scenario for me is that the lions gets another lower 3rd roumd draft choice or give NO there 4th round pick sign Hargrove and SUH, and get to the damn quarterback and running back!!!
Yea, and that is all great Brian, except that we also Need at the very least is a good guard and a good FB to help out in the pass protection Or end up not being able to run the ball AGAIN. And it would also keep our $40 Million dollar QB on the run trying to save his life and not being able to put enough points on the board to actually win the GAME.
I believe that it will be great to get SUH However WE better get some protection for that envestment or we will have to go looking for anther QB Because the REAL REAL GOOD one that we have will be drinking pina calada's on the beach with his girlfriend while are team is losing games because no one can score on are TEAM.
D-Fences Win Games when they have an offence that puts points up on the board.
I know he's a big guy, but he's a big guy that can play 1-gap with the best of them. You just don't find that every day. No one in this draft is even CLOSE to the prospect Hayneworth is right now. If he was in the draft, he'd be ahead of Suh and McCoy and any team that would draft and move him to a 3-4 would be laughed at.
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Mar 22, 2010
09:57 AM
Is Hargrove a proven enough commodity that he's worth a 3rd round pick? Obviously the Lioms defense could use all the talent infusion it can get and I believe he is an upgrade over most of the line we have. I just haven't seen him enough to be comfortable with handing away a 3rd rounder for him.