The inside story of how Brad Holmes went from off the Lions’ radar to their next general manager
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 19, 2021
Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes First Day at Allen Park. (via the Detroit Lions).Detroit Lions
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No, not as their general manager.
The year was 2003, and Holmes was still just trying to break into the business. He worked for a while at Enterprise Rental Car before finally cracking the sports world as a public relations intern for the Atlanta Hawks. But his passion was in football. His father played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, his uncle was a first-round pick of the Detroit Lions, and he was a captain at North Carolina A&T. The game flows through that family’s blood, and Holmes wanted to be in it.