Top Photos: Detroit Lions OTAs 3

The Detroit Lions rightfully feel they are in a good place heading into mandatory minicamp.

With a solid free agency that targeted veterans with high upside and a draft that added young defensive backs and offensive linemen, head coach Dan Campbell was all smiles ahead of a Thursday practice at the team's Allen Park facility.

“Yeah, everything has progressed nicely here," Campbell said. "I felt like it was another good year, another good – you know the process of where we are at going into year four. I thought (general manager) Brad (Holmes) and his crew -- I swear every year, I’m like, ‘How can this get more efficient?’ Because it is so efficient right now, and he does it.

"It’s unbelievable. He’s a machine. I love the players that we got, free agency obviously, the draft, the level we’re at here. We’re just in a pretty good place right now. We really are, we’re in a good place. We got our guys signed back, that was big to be able to get (Jared) Goff and (Amon-Ra St. Brown) 'Saint' and (Penei) Sewell, those were a priority. It’s been really good for us. It has. We’re sitting in a good place right now.”

Here is a collection of the top photographs taken at Lions practice on Thursday, May 23.