Detroit Lions’s first round draft pick Taylor Decker talks with kids during a break at the Heads Up Football Clinic at Detroit Renaissance High School on Thursday, June 23, 2016.(Photo: Kimberly P. Mitchell, DFP) If Taylor Decker wins the left tackle job, as expected, when training camp opens in July, it won’t be the first time the Detroit Lions have turned the position over to a rookie from Ohio State. In 1963, the Lions took Ohio State offensive lineman Daryl Sanders with their first-round pick, No. 12 overall. Sanders played right tackle for the Buckeyes but started four seasons at left tackle for the Lions before quitting the NFL for a higher-paying job in sales. • Calvin Johnson talks retirement, says he was fed up with football He went on to open a Cadillac dealership in Columbus and now runs a consulting firm that helps dealers with internet sales. “I played for Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler,” Sanders said in a phone interview with the Free Press earlier this month. “Bo was my offensive line coach and Woody told me from the time he recruited me as a senior in high school that football is a means to an end, not an end in itself. “That’s not quite as true today as it was back in those days. I mean, I’m making in the mid-($20,000 range) back in those days. That’s all we’re getting paid, so I just had a great opportunity with a great company. It just all really worked out for me.” Daryl Sanders was drafted No. 12 overall by the Lions in 1963. (Photo: File…
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