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The Detroit Lions signed offensive tackle Max Pircher on Monday as part of the NFL’s International Pathways Program. Picher, a native of Italy, spent the past two seasons with the Los Angeles Rams after being allocated to the team through the program in 2021. He takes the place of Australian-born tight end Patrick Murtagh, who

Carrying a third quarterback on the 53-man could be in vogue for NFL teams again this fall. The NFL passed a bylaw originally proposed by the Detroit Lions at its spring meeting Monday allowing teams to dress a third quarterback who will not count against the team’s gameday roster. The emergency quarterback cannot come from

Growing up, Frank Ragnow was an avid hunter. He went pheasant hunting with his father, Jon, near his grandmother’s house along the Iowa-South Dakota border. He hunted hogs one time during his playing days with the Arkansas Razorbacks. “Kind of a carnivore, killing your own kind,” Ragnow joked. And he still remembers the first time

I’m out of town for one measly week, I miss my first NFL schedule release and rookie minicamp in years and suddenly I find myself left without a seat on the Detroit Lions hype train? Yep, things change that fast in the NFL. Yet here we are. Or rather, there they go — those Super

Frank Ragnow gutted through a toe injury last season to make the Pro Bowl for the second time in his career, but the Detroit Lions center did not undergo corrective surgery this offseason because he said his latest injury is “inoperable.” Ragnow tore the plantar plate in his left foot in Week 4 of the

Two years of being one of the best wide receivers in the NFL has not washed away the burn Amon-Ra St. Brown felt from sliding to the fourth round of the 2021 draft. St. Brown can recite all 16 receivers taken before him, and he said last fall he’s “out to give every team hell”

It wasn’t long after Mohamed Ibrahim finished his pre-draft meeting with Detroit Lions running backs coach Scottie Montgomery that he picked up his phone and called his old position coach at Minnesota, Kenni Burns, now the head coach at Kent State. Ibrahim and Montgomery were discussing pass game concepts at the NFL combine in March

The Detroit Lions have found their competition for Michael Badgley. The Lions signed former XFL kicker John Parker Romo after a weekend tryout at rookie minicamp. Romo, who announced his signing on Twitter, made 17 of 19 field goals for the San Antonio Brahmas this spring to earn All-XFL honors and kicked well in practice

The Detroit Lions have half their draft class under contract. The Lions signed third-round pick Brodric Martin to a standard four-year deal Monday. Rookie draft picks receive slotted contracts under the current collective bargaining agreement. As the 96th pick of the draft, Martin’s deal is worth a maximum of $5.3 million and includes a signing

The Detroit Lions will be hosting two sets of joint practices this summer. Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Pederson told Florida reporters over the weekend that his team will practice against the Lions ahead of the teams’ Week 2 preseason game in August. Lions coach Dan Campbell had previously said the Lions would host the New

No, there isn’t a quarterback controversy for the Detroit Lions — thankfully. No matter how much some folks may want one — the kind of folks who also enjoy rubbernecking at an accident site, for example, or sneaking through someone else’s medicine cabinet. Dan Campbell isn’t that kind of folk. He made that clear last

The Detroit Lions are on the clock. The countdown began Friday in Allen Park, on the practice fields outside the team’s headquarters, where the team’s rookies, and free-agent rookie signings, slipped on their jerseys, helmets and worked through some drills. On Saturday, the rookies were back, in front of reporters, talking a little trash —

Jerry Jacobs had just gotten home from school one day in the spring of 2009 when his mother, Alice, sat him and two of his siblings down on the sectional couch of their Atlanta apartment. Alice was 46 at the time, a single mother of five who would give her last dime to help anyone

Hendon Hooker didn’t throw a pass at Detroit Lions rookie minicamp Saturday, and the nature of the torn ACL he suffered at Tennessee last November means he won’t be doing any meaningful football drills for a while. But the Lions’ third-round pick still managed to stand out during a 90-minute pad-less practice because of the

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Jahmyr Gibbs made a memorable impression on his teammates on the first day of Detroit Lions rookie minicamp before suffering an ankle injury that is expected to keep him out the rest of the weekend. “He’s special,” fellow running back Mohamed Ibrahim said. “His first day out here he was doing amazing stuff. His footwork,

The Detroit Lions went from having no scheduled prime-time games a season ago to playing in one of the NFL’s most important television windows this year, and one of the men responsible for putting the schedule together said the team earned its newfound place near the top of the league’s TV pecking order. “We always

The Detroit Lions signed quarterback Hendon Hooker and two other draft picks to contracts before the start of rookie minicamp Friday. Hooker, the 68th pick in last month’s draft, will not take part in football drills in camp or organized team activities this spring as he recovers from a torn ACL he suffered last November

Expectations are sky high for the Detroit Lions in 2023, and for good reason. The Lions have a well-rounded roster with plenty of promising, young talent, and they have a manageable schedule that should both test them and give them opportunity to flourish. I’m as optimistic about the Lions’ chances of winning a playoff game

It’s a new tradition: When the NFL schedule gets revealed every spring, all 32 teams have to compete in the social media space to see who can come up with the most entertaining, creative and funniest video of them all. We’re proud to say the Detroit Lions’ video is up there with some of the