Giovanni Manu

but you haven't made that next step to be great.

And that takes risking something and not worrying about if it blows up in your face, which is funny because your general manager blows draft picks like chewing gum and takes projects in Giovanni Manu, who was an egg.

What did we do? Hinden hooker? Like, yeah, You waste all of this potential instead of using those picks? Because you look at what Seattle paid for.

You look at what the Niners paid for.

But after those two selections within the '24 draft, I did not like the Lions' '24 draft class, and this was where I started to question Brad Holmes.

They drafted developmental offensive tackle Giovanni Manu in the fourth round, and why I specifically did not like that selection was they traded a 2025 third, a future asset, to go up and get him.

And here we are, you know, 38 games into Giovanni Manu's career, and he's played four career games.

And the biggest thing that I will hammer home with developmental players and developmental selections that are used in day three is they are developmental for a reason.

The percentage that development players actually hit is very low, and I think this is another good example of a developmental pick not working out.

And the reason I didn't like that trade was because they traded a future three for what at the time was a late round four selection.

I thought that was really poor asset allocation management from GM Brad Holmes at the time.

And the draft after Giovanni Manu, it got a little better because Giovanni Manu has contributed really nothing for this team, but they selected Sione Vaki, who is a safety and running back hybrid.

Now, hear me out on this.

He wouldn't waste a second and a fourth-round pick to get Joey Porter Jr., right? But he had no problem trading a third-round pick to move up for Giovanni Manu.

He had no problem wasting three picks to move up for Broderick Barton.

And he had no problem wasting three thirds to move up for Isaac Tesla, who then they turned around and re-signed Jamo, who can't catch a ball without using his body.

And really they gave up nothing for him, a second and a sixth rounder.

And I say nothing because that's basically Ennis Rakestraw, who doesn't play, who was a second rounder, and Giovanni Manu, who was a sixth rounder, who I think got cut.

I don't even know where he is.

So I think sometimes...

Well, they've all been draft day trades.

Giovanni Manu? Hendon Hooker.

I'd say J-Mo is a risk, right? Giving up extra capital to get up into the first.

Just spitballing.