Lions general manager Brad Holmes has built a dominant, surefire contender in Detroit.

His continued goal with the 2025 NFL Draft looming less than a week away is to keep it that way, making sure to avoid the pitfall of valuing immediate needs over landing the best players, Bobby Kownack of NFL.com reports.

"I think you can get in trouble chasing needs sometimes, and then you're depending on a rookie," Holmes, whose seven draft picks start off at No. 28 overall, said Thursday. "You do the best you can, but nobody has a crystal ball. So, it can be a tough world to live in."

He added this about the lure of zoning in on quick dividends: "There's just a level of patience you have to (have). When you start chasing need, it's like that need might make sense for right now at this time. We make these picks for future investments. We kind of live in a society that everything is, 'Right now! Right now! Right now!'"

"There's just some teams that don't want to go that far back," Holmes said. "It takes two. So, it's hard to say like, 'Man, we should do this.' And even if we do there's no telling that the other team is willing to go back."

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