Holmes addressed it, as I am sure you saw.

He let people know that he understands the metrics and that he also knows that
he is going to do what he thinks is best for the Lions.

The Tweets by the stat fans . . . are making fun of him...

the old "don't draft a RB high, or an off-the-ball LBer high"

stuff like that

some writers are saying just that both were taken too high