The Detroit Lions are looking to trade up to draft Sammy Watkins.
General manager Martin Mayhew and coach Jim Caldwell had dinner with him the night before his pro day last month.
The Lions brought in Watkins in for a pre-draft visit on Tuesday.
Caldwell called Watkins “a quality person” and said “there's not much to dislike about this young man.”
“We had an opportunity to visit with his mother and father, so I think you get a pretty good feel,” Caldwell said. “And one of the things I've always learned from my days back in college is I've always loved to watch the interaction between the individual and his parents. You know that old scripture in the Bible, honor thy mother and father. Well, typically you can tell what kind of man it is … when you watch the people that they are closest to and hold dearest to their heart and how they treat them.”
