Nick Bawden played in five games as a quarterback (two starts) in his freshman season at SDSU
With the 237th overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft, the Detroit Lions chose fullback Nick Bawden from San Diego State in the seventh round.
Bawden, 6 feet 2 and 245 pounds, was projected as a sixth- or seventh-round pick by NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein .
Over the past two years, Bawden cleared the way for 2,000-yard rushers in consecutive seasons: Rashaad Penny (2017) and Donnel Pumphrey (2016). Penny was the 27th overall pick by the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday.
Bawden caught 15 passes for 103 yards and a touchdown in 2017, and 15 passes for 137 yards in 2016.
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Bawden played in five games as a quarterback ( two starts) in his 2014 freshman season at SDSU, before moving to fullback the next year.
He was a 3-star All-State quarterback in high school at Los Gatos, Calif., and had offers from Harvard, Utah and Washington among others.
A few hours earlier in the fifth round, the Lions took Oregon offensive tackle Tyrell Crosby. One expert called him a «bad-bodied assassin.»
In Round 4, the Lions traded up with the New England Patriots, again, to grab Alabama defensive lineman Da’Shawn Hand .
