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On the day after his team didn’t look great playing its final preseason game — and the day before his team’s roster had to trim down to the 53-man limit — Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell looked and sounded like a tired man. It was Monday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the Pittsburgh Steelers

The Detroit Lions have their backup quarterback. Now, the question is how long he can hold the job. The Lions cut Tim Boyle on Monday, one day after coach Dan Campbell said he gained “clarity” in the backup quarterback race from the Lions’ preseason-ending 19-9 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The NFL Network was first

Chase Lucas took both congratulatory pats on the helmet and some good-natured ribbing from his Detroit Lions teammates after he recovered an onside kick with 30 seconds left in Sunday’s 19-9 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the last game of the NFL preseason. “They were giving me hassle like, ‘I’m trying to go home,’” Lucas

PITTSBURGH – Predicting the Detroit Lions’ 53-man roster is never easy, but figuring out which players will survive Tuesday’s NFL roster cut deadline was especially difficult this year. Not only do the Lions have more depth than in past seasons — and therefore more competition for back-end roster spots at nearly every position — they

PITTSBURGH — Dan Campbell found “clarity” in the Detroit Lions‘ backup quarterback battle Sunday, and that could be bad news for Tim Boyle and David Blough. With Jared Goff sitting as a healthy scratch, Boyle and Blough split quarterback reps in the Lions’ 19-9 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the final game of the

PITTSBURGH – Jeff Okudah’s return from a ruptured Achilles tendon is nearly complete. Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell said after Sunday’s 19-9 preseason loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers that Okudah has won the starting cornerback job opposite Amani Oruwariye. “Yeah, I would say that,” Campbell said. “I would say it’s looking like that. There’s nothing

Matthew Stafford may be a California-living Super Bowl champion now, but decade-long Detroit ties don’t die easily. Stafford, the longtime Detroit Lions quarterback, will be the NFL’s spokesman for a Motown staple: Little Caesars. The Detroit-based pizza chain entered a sponsorship agreement with the league earlier this summer, according to a Monday news release by

PITTSBURGH — Three players who helped and hurt their stock in the Detroit Lions‘ 19-9 preseason loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday: Three up CB Jeff Okudah: Okudah had a strong finish to the preseason to win the No. 2 cornerback job. He started Sunday at left cornerback (opposite Amani Oruwariye), made two tackles

PITTSBURGH – That wasn’t how Dan Campbell wanted to finish the preseason. The Detroit Lions played most of their starters about a half in Sunday’s sloppy exhibition finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers, but at least the Lions can take solace in knowing their rebuilt pass rush looks ready for action heading into the regular season.

Barry Sanders’ son is on the Michigan State basketball roster for the 2022-23 season. Nick Sanders, who played at Birmingham Detroit Country Day, is a freshman walk-on for coach Tom Izzo’s Spartans. Sanders, who will wear his father’s number 20 in green and white, is listed as a 5-foot-9, 170-pound guard from Franklin. Sanders will

By Dan Campbell’s estimation, the Detroit Lions have eight to 10 roster spots still up for grabs heading into Sunday’s preseason finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers. They need to pick a kicker and a backup quarterback. They do not appear to have settled on a fifth (or sixth) receiver. They’re still weighing their options in

Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn and running backs coach Duce Staley have had some memorable moments through three episodes of the HBO/NFL Films documentary series “Hard Knocks.” Start with Episode 1 — as Staley stood in the front of the team room, he turned to Glenn and said, “I love you. I want to (expletive)

It’s close. Just one preseason game remains before the start of the NFL’s regular season. Unlike previous years, the 2022 slate of exhibition games has been an exciting ride for Steelers fans, as Kenny Pickett has shined, and significantly closed the gap with presumed starter Mitch Trubisky. Mike Tomlin has already made it clear that

The Detroit Lions close the preseason Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Starters from both teams are expected to play the first half, though the Lions will rest quarterback Jared Goff. Lions coach Dan Campbell said he will use the second half to get a final evaluation on players on the roster bubble. Here are five

Barry Sanders‘ son is on the Michigan State basketball roster for the 2022-23 season. Nick Sanders, who played at Detroit Country Day, is a freshman walk-on for coach Tom Izzo’s Spartans. Sanders, who will wear his father’s number 20 in green and white, is listed as a 5-foot-9, 170-pound guard from Franklin. He’ll be behind

In his downtime before practice Thursday, Godwin Igwebuike found himself flipping through some of his old journal entries from his first training camp with the Detroit Lions last summer. Igwebuike, who was in the middle of a position switch from safety to running back at the time, was musing about how difficult life was on

The Detroit Lions are entering Year 2 of their Jared Goff error … er, era, which means Detroit Lions fans are in Year 2 of wishing for almost anyone else at quarterback. At some point, the franchise will have to dip its toe back into the icy waters of the rookie QB deal; although Goff

Jared Goff’s preseason is done, and Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson likes where his quarterback is at heading into the regular season. “I think he’s had a great camp,” Johnson said Friday. “He’s displaying a lot of confidence within this system right now and once again, we’re trying to tailor it to what he

The Detroit Lions could get one of their best pass rushers back in time for their regular-season opener Sept. 11 against the Philadelphia Eagles. Lions coach Dan Campbell said Friday injured linebacker Julian Okwara is trending towards returning for the start of the regular season. Okwara has not practiced since Aug. 3 because of what

This is a story about hair, and the power that comes with it — though it really has little to do with hair at all. Second-year Detroit Lions linebackers coach Kelvin Sheppard has been growing his hair out for the better part of 14 years. He has long dreadlocks he occasionally wears up on the