I actually liked what I saw of Okudah his last year at OSU. Thought he was a good prospect coming out. I still think he could be good in the right system.
Detroit has until recently been such a dysfunctional place that a change of scenery will probably do him good.

The previous GM and Matt Patricia were... not good. I think Flores might be the only Belichick coach to do much good after NE. Josh McDaniels is a good OC, but I don't know that he has what it takes to be a HC. Rich Bissacia took that LV team to the playoffs as interim HC after the Gruden mess, and they took a big step back under McDaniels.

People complain about Gute and his drafts, and he's definitely made some mistakes, but if you look around the rest of the NFCN you see the other teams haven't done better with what they've had to work with.