On Friday, the Detroit Lions lost wide receiver DJ Chark to the Carolina Panthers. With the Lions freeing up so much cap space, it was thought that maybe they would use some of that money to bring back Chark on another cheap, short-term deal. Instead, they may have opened themselves up for another need that…
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Only a few months ago, Georgia defensive tackle Jalen Carter was considered a lock to go in the top of the draft. Prior to the trade with the Carolina Panthers, there was legitimate buzz around Carter going number one overall to the Chicago Bears. So for teams like the Detroit Lions sitting at sixth overall…
This week has been a whirlwind for Detroit Lions fans. National analysts are waiting in line to praise everything the Lions have done since November. Whether it is the team’s 8-2 run to finish the season, the nationally-televised gutsy win over the Packers in the season finale, or their calculated aggression in free agency, Lions…
The Detroit Lions are losing their special teams captain as linebacker Josh Woods has agreed to a 1-year contract with the Arizona Cardinals. Woods quietly had a dominating year on special teams for the Lions, registering 322 special teams snaps (3rd most on the team) and earning a PFF special teams grade of 90.9, which…
It’s officially mock draft season, and you’re invited to participate in the biggest mock draft run in the Lions community. After a wild start to free agency for the Detroit Lions, it’s time to turn our attention to the 2023 NFL Draft. And with it fully being draft season, it’s time to bring back the…
The Detroit Lions have been active with the salary cap gymnastics this offseason. They restructured Tracy Walker’s and Jack Fox’s contracts. They got Charles Harris, Halapoulivaati Vaitai, and Romeo Okwara to agree to significant pay cuts. Additionally, many of the players they have signed or re-signed in free agency have backloaded contracts. Six of them—Cameron…
Many Detroit Lions fans were wondering what the team was going to do with the contract of right guard Halapoulivaati Vaitai. The veteran offensive lineman was set to hit $12.4 million against the cap in 2023—the fifth-highest figure on the team—but that didn’t really match the production they were getting out of him. Vaitai has…
When Detroit Lions’ principal owner Sheila Hamp decided to pull the plug on the last regime, she seemed to have a very specific vision in mind for the future of the organization. For too long had there been massive divides between various parts of the franchise. Clearly drawn lines in the sand between the business…
Detroit Lions Kool-Aid is apparently both addicting and contagious. Lions fans have been thrilled with the direction of the team ever since the end of the 2022 season. An 8-2 finish to the year capped by a nationally-televised win in Green Bay to both end the Aaron Rodgers NFC North era and prevent the Packers…
Over the weekend, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes made a big signing when they brought in the NFL’s interception leader Eagles defensive back C.J. Gardner Johnson. Gardner-Johnson was a big swing from the Lions and is a guy that is a day one starter and really shores up several areas for this team. He…
The Detroit Lions have been taking all kinds of swings in free agency this month. They’ve added three very good secondary pieces, the best running back on the market and they even added a long snapper. They did all of this on top of returning some key pieces from last year’s team.
NFL free agency is a hard thing for fans to grasp, but it’s not something you can visually see. To the fan, free agency is just a flurry of tweets and contract terms flying off the board. Behind the scenes, it’s a chaotic frenzy of texts and calls between teams and player agents.
The Detroit Lions have made a flurry of moves in the first week of free agency, and by most accounts, they’ve done a pretty darn good job filling the most pressing needs on the team. Fans are excited about some of the splash free agency signings, but Detroit also made some important moves by retaining…
A lot can happen in 10 days. The NFL Combine was happening not too long ago and the Detroit Lions said all the things they could say to make you think that they were going to head into free agency with a quest to be purposefully quiet. My biggest concern for this team was that…
Worries about what the Detroit Lions would or would not spend in NFL free agency were put to bed when the team swooped in on their third defensive back signing, bringing in former Philadelphia Eagle C.J. Gardner-Johnson. By that point, Detroit had completely overhauled their cornerback corps, which enters 2023 in a radically different spot…
In the past week, the Detroit Lions have overhauled their cornerback room, signing Emmanuel Moseley, Cameron Sutton and C.J. Gardner-Johnson to free agency deals. But with additions come subtractions, and the Lions lost one key player of their secondary to free agency on Monday night. Cornerback Mike Hughes officially signed a two-year deal with the…
A growing number of people think the Detroit Lions have what it takes to make it to the Super Bowl, including one NFL Network analyst. The Good Morning Football crew, as they often do, posed a question to the group: Based on this offseason and free agency so far, which team do you think has…
New Detroit Lions cornerback C.J. Gardner-Johnson came ever so close to getting a ring just over a month ago. As a key part of the Philadelphia Eagles defense—he led the NFL with six interceptions in 2022—Gardner-Johnson found himself in the title game and just a few plays short of lifting the Lombardi Trophy.
After a busy first week of free agency, nobody was expecting any kind of late news to break late Sunday night, right? Wrong. Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes had no plans for a quiet evening—signing former defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson to a one-year contract worth up to $8 million.
In order to make some of the aggressive moves the Detroit Lions have made in free agency, they needed to free up some cap space. First, they created $10 million in cap space by releasing veteran defensive tackle Michael Brockers. Then they asked Charles Harris to take a $3 million pay cut. Now, another player…