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This is the first installment of a multi-part series previewing the 2022 NFL Scouting Combine. The event will be broadcast over four days on the NFL Network, Thursday, March 3 through Sunday, March 6. Today, we’ll look at the wide receivers. Lions’ pre-free agency needs The team is in slightly better position this offseason compared to

It didn’t work out in Detroit for Anthony Lynn, but in an interview with Woodward Sports this week, the former Lions offensive coordinator was highly complimentary of his former boss Dan Campbell, as well as team owner Sheila Ford Hamp. Lynn credited Campbell’s leadership with holding the locker room together through the team’s three-win season in

The Detroit Lions are keeping season ticket prices level heading into the 2022 season, according to an email sent to season-ticket holders on Thursday. “As we prepare for the 2022-23 season, I want to acknowledge where we are as an organization,” an attached message from team president Rod Wood said. “We understand that our results

The Detroit Lions made a move to keep a piece of the team’s puzzle in place ahead of free agency, re-signing fullback and top special teams contributor Jason Cabinda to a two-year contract. Additional terms of the deal weren’t immediately available. Undrafted as a linebacker out of Penn State in 2018, Cabinda spent his rookie

The Super Bowl is in the books, Matthew Stafford got his ring, so maybe it’s finally safe to shift attention to something actually relevant to the Detroit Lions: The NFL Draft. The Lions are still in the early stages of their post-Stafford rebuild and the heart of the process is the draft, which offers an

The Detroit Lions will be in search of a new position coach this offseason after parting ways with inside linebacker coach Mark DeLeone this week. The circumstances of the departure remain unclear. Both he and multiple team sources declined comment. Son of legendary offensive line coach George DeLeone, Mark joined Detroit’s staff last offseason after two

Los Angeles — Matthew Stafford, Cooper Kupp, Aaron Donald and the rest of the Los Angeles Rams celebrated their Super Bowl championship Wednesday with a victory parade and rollicking rally in front of thousands of cheering fans. Team members held up the Lombardi Trophy and waved at fans from open-top double-decker buses that rolled to a

Wayne Parry |  Associated Press Atlantic City — Legal betting on this year’s Super Bowl was heavy in the four states that had reported results as of Tuesday. Nevada saw nearly $180 million in bets, New Jersey saw nearly $144 million, Mississippi saw nearly $6.4 million and Montana saw nearly $700,000. With more states approving legal sports

The lure of watching Matthew Stafford in the Super Bowl proved to be significant in Detroit, where the quarterback spent the first 12 years of his career. According to ratings data provided by NBC, Detroit had the second-highest rating of the 44 markets measured, checking in only behind Cincinnati. The southern Ohio city had good

Someday, perhaps, we’ll all come together as one in this country and declare the Monday after a Super Bowl a national holiday. Until then, it’ll simply remain a day for under-the-weather employees and over-the-top reactions. But here’s one from the latter category that could linger for a while in the NFL, as everyone takes stock of the

A Super Bowl ring in hand is worth how many draft picks in the bush? That’s the question for Monday after the big game as we reconsider the trade the Detroit Lions made a year ago, sending Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for Jared Goff and a trio of draft picks. The

If the Cincinnati Bengals’ run to the Super Bowl this season gave you hope that the Detroit Lions could have a similar turnaround next year, we should caution you: Vegas doesn’t have the same belief. But hey, that’s why they call them longshots, right? Less than 24 hours after Super Bowl LVI, most online sportsbooks

Jerry Green |  Special to The Detroit News Inglewood, Calif. — They came pounding up the tunnel, and it sounded like a cavalry scene in a Hollywood movie. Thump. Thump. Thump. And the whooping hollering reverberated inside the tunnel walls. And suddenly, there seemed to be a stampede. Broncos on the warpath. Fifty-six now, and this

Inglewood, Calif. — One drive for the ultimate prize. One throw to win it all. It’s what Matthew Stafford craved all those years in Detroit, to prevail in the thickest pressure. And now here he was, as thick as it gets, trailing in the Super Bowl, 79 yards from the end zone, six minutes left.

Matthew Stafford and the Rams’ stars delivered when it mattered the most. Stafford led a fourth-quarter comeback by completing four passes to his favorite target, Cooper Kupp, during a 15-play, 79-yard scoring drive, highlighted by a 1-yard TD that gave the Rams a 23-20 lead with 1:29 to play. Stafford hooked up with Kupp on back-to-back completions for

Bill Plaschke |  Los Angeles Times Amid the blaring of blue and gold horns, on a super-sized Sunday fit for an ascension, the Los Angeles sports heavens just got a little more crowded. Make room for the Rams. Move over Lakers, back up Dodgers, everybody clear space for the oldest of friends, the newest of heroes,

Josh Dubow |  Associated Press Inglewood, Calif. — Cooper Kupp was helpless when the Los Angeles Rams went to the Super Bowl three years ago, only able to watch after tearing a knee ligament earlier in the season. Kupp nearly did it all on the final drive of the Rams’ return trip to the title game,

Editor’s note: This was Bob Wojnowski’s column after Matthew Stafford’s final game as a Lion on Jan. 3, 2021. He threw for 293 yards and three touchdowns and the Lions lost to the Vikings at Ford Field 37-35 to wrap a 5-11 season. So many sentiments ring especially true today, as Stafford leads the Rams against

As more than 100,000 people at Michigan Stadium stood and cheered Charles Woodson, Jim Brandstatter stood in the cramped radio booth and applauded Frank Beckmann. It was the kind of moment when legends are made. Wolverines vs. Buckeyes, November 1997, Ohio State on the move. Woodson, a Michigan defensive back in contention for college football’s most

More than $7 billion is expected to be wagered on Sunday’s Super Bowl, and a considerable chunk of that is being bet legally in Michigan. And the numbers don’t lie: Michigan still backs Matthew Stafford, the Detroit Lions’ quarterback for 12 years before he was traded a year ago and led the Los Angeles Rams