Detroit Free Press

When Las Vegas set the Detroit Lions’ win total for the 2021 season at 5 to 5 1/2 games, I immediately found myself thinking the Lions would go over that total. They’d get a bounce from having a first-year head coach in Dan Campbell, and Jared Goff is a good enough quarterback to help keep the team competitive

The 2021 NFL schedule dropped at 8 tonight (NFL Network). The Detroit Lions, in the first year of the league’s new 17-game schedule will face the league’s sixth-toughest schedule, including three pairs of back-to-back road games. The Freep’s Dave Birkett made his 2021 predictions already, right here. He also took a deeper look at some

The NFL schedule makers did not cut Dan Campbell any slack in his first season as Detroit Lions coach. Campbell and the Lions open the 2021 season against a San Francisco 49ers team that will be one of the favorites in the NFC this fall, and the Lions have three sets of back-to-back road games

© Copyright Gannett 2021

First-round pick Penei Sewell will not join the rest of the Detroit Lions‘ rookie class for the start of rookie minicamp this week. Sewell announced Wednesday on Twitter that he recently tested positive for COVID-19. “Found out this past weekend I tested positive for COVID,” Sewell wrote. “Really wish I was heading to my new

The 2021 NFL schedule is set to drop at 8 tonight (NFL Network). That being said, there are already details being leaked, including the full slate of Week 1 games, plus the Thanksgiving matchups. This is also the first year the NFL is moving to a 17-game regular season schedule. ANALYSIS: 5 Lions games to

Dan Campbell’s debut as Detroit Lions coach will come against a Super Bowl team from the not-too-distant past. The Lions will open the 2021 season against the San Francisco 49ers on Sept. 12 at Ford Field, the team announced Thursday. The Lions are opening at home for the second straight season and fourth time in

The opponents have been known for months, and in some cases years. At 8 p.m. Wednesday, we finally get to put a time and date on the games. Every team plays 17 games this fall as part of an expanded regular season. NFC teams have nine road games, while AFC teams have nine at home.

The trailer for the “Venom” sequel has arrived bearing a cameo for the Detroit Lions. Sort of. In the preview for “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” actor Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock character is back and still dealing with the scary symbiote that lives inside him and emerges for brutal fights. This time out, Brock/Venom will

Was it really just five years ago? Detroit’s four professional sports teams simultaneously have been going through such slow rebuilds that it’s hard to believe it was only 2016 when all four teams were flourishing. The Lions, Red Wings and Pistons made the playoffs that year. The Tigers finished second in the division and still

Every Sunday evening, for the better part of 26 weeks, after Nicolle Thompson-Williams finished having dinner with her two kids, she would load them into the backseat of her Mercedes 190, drive 45 minutes to their teacher’s house and drop them off for five days while she studied at the Riverside County Sheriff Department’s police academy.

Well, that didn’t take long. A few days after Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes said the team was focused on finishing off a contract extension with center Frank Ragnow — the team’s top pick in 2018, at No. 20 overall — the two sides agreed on a four-year deal Thursday that will make Ragnow

It didn’t take too long for Kerryon Johnson to find a new home. Johnson, the Detroit Lions’ second-round pick in 2018, was claimed Friday by the Philadelphia Eagles, one day after being cut by the team that drafted him, the Eagles announced. Last season, Johnson fell behind 2020 draft pick D’Andre Swift on the Lions’

When his agent called Wednesday night to tell him his record-setting extension with the Detroit Lions that had been in the works for months was close to being finalized, Frank Ragnow’s fiancee phoned his mother and invited her over to their house to celebrate. Marty Ragnow brought cookie dough and baked cookies. Jack Ragnow, Frank’s younger brother,

When his agent called Wednesday night to tell him his record-setting extension with the Detroit Lions that had been in the works for months was close to being finalized, Frank Ragnow’s fiancee phoned his mother and invited her over to their house to celebrate. Marty Ragnow brought cookie dough and baked cookies. Jack Ragnow, Frank’s younger brother,

Jeff Okudah is close to 100% recovered from the groin surgery that ended his rookie season, and, with the help of a new coaching staff, the Detroit Lions cornerback is optimistic about what that means for 2021. “It just feels like I have a different level that I wasn’t able to kind of tap into

You might not know who Kalif Raymond is. Even if you’re a pretty diehard Detroit Lions fan, you might be unaware he’s a 5-foot-8 free-agent receiver and return specialist who has one touchdown in four NFL seasons. Honestly, I wasn’t sure who he was before he spoke with Detroit reporters Thursday. Had Raymond walked up

Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes had honest dialogue with quarterback Jared Goff in the buildup to the NFL draft, letting him know that the Lions would consider taking a quarterback with the No. 7 overall pick. Ultimately, the Lions went in a different direction — they took the draft’s best offensive tackle, Oregon’s Penei

The closer the Detroit Lions get to the start of Organized Team Activities, the more unrealistic it seems the Lions and other teams will be opting out of voluntary in-person workouts this spring. Lions quarterback Jared Goff met virtually with reporters Thursday and did so from inside the team’s Allen Park practice facility. Goff said

The Detroit Lions are serious about building one of the NFL’s best offensive lines — and keeping it together for years to come. The Lions agreed to a four-year contract extension with center Frank Ragnow on Thursday that should keep him in Detroit through the 2026 season. NFL Network reported the deal is worth $13.5