Video confirms Lions had big 1st-round trade up offer in place with Ravens

Detroit Lions executive vice president and general manager Brad Holmes speaks during media availability at Meijer Performance Center in Allen Park on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. | Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images A few weeks ago, we detailed two potential trade up offers the Detroit Lions may have had in place in the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft .

The first, reported by Nate Atkins of The Athletic, was a trade up attempt with the Los Angeles Rams—from 17 to 13—that LA rejected as too “soft. ” The second scenario was admittedly more speculation on our part. Baltimore Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta told The Athletic that a team he purposely did not name “had something on the table, but inexplicably told us they’d changed their mind.

” The clues he left about this mystery team were that it was a trade down from 14 to somewhere in the teens, and he mentioned that the deal would’ve netted them a fourth-round pick in each of the next two drafts. Because the Lions didn’t have a third-round pick to trade and they picked in the teens, it felt like the Lions were a good bet to be this unnamed team. On Monday night, the Ravens dropped their behind-the-scenes video of the 2026 NFL Draft , and it confirms the Lions were this mystery team.

Here’s the clip: Inside the #Ravens draft room: The #Lions offered No. 17 and 118, along with a 2027 3rd for No. 14.