Over the next several days, leading up to the 2023 NFL Draft, we’re taking a position-by-position look at the Detroit Lions’ roster and evaluating how the team might address each unit. Today: Running backs. ▶ Current roster: David Montgomery, D’Andre Swift, Craig Reynolds, Jermar Jefferson ▶ Short-term need: Two out of 10 ▶ Long-term need: 6.5 out of 10
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Allen Park — A couple days into the team’s first set of organized activates, Lions offensive tackle Taylor Decker had yet to meet David Montgomery. Still, the new running back’s reputation was preceding him. “Obviously, I know of him from his time in Chicago,” Decker said. “I mean, the guy is a playmaker. Durable, a
Free Press sports reporter Dave Birkett takes a position-by-position look at the top prospects and biggest Lions needs in the 2023 NFL draft. This is the first in an eight-part series: With nine picks in next week’s draft, including four in the fifth and sixth rounds, the Detroit Lions are prime candidates to use a selection
Allen Park — Earlier this month, we explored the Detroit Lions’ options with the No. 6 pick. Today, we take a closer look at many of the potential fits with the team’s second selection, No. 18. At the top of the draft, things are condensed. There are only so many players who possess the combination
Allen Park — After the Lions finished last season as the NFL’s worst defensive team, general manager Brad Holmes vowed to make offseason upgrades to the unit. He started that process in free agency, inking three likely starters for the team’s secondary, while bringing back several key pieces at other spots. Defensive tackle Alim McNeill
I respect Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff and left tackle Taylor Decker. I value what they say, how they carry themselves and the leadership they’ve shown through tough times while playing two of football’s hardest positions. But something they said Tuesday was deeply concerning, because it speaks to potentially being unprepared to face the best
Over the next several days, leading up to the 2023 NFL Draft, we’re taking a position-by-position look at the Detroit Lions’ roster and evaluating how the team might address each unit. Today: Edge defenders. ▶ Current roster: Aidan Hutchinson, John Cominsky, Romeo Okwara, Charles Harris, James Houston, Julian Okwara, Josh Paschal ▶ Short-term need: 3.5 out of 10
Alim McNeill likes what the Detroit Lions did in free agency, adding three new starters to their secondary and re-signing key depth pieces in the front seven in Isaiah Buggs, John Cominsky and Alex Anzalone. “Yeah, 100%,” the defensive lineman said Tuesday after the Lions’ second voluntary workout of the offseason. “It’s almost like we’re
A year ago, the thought of it seemed absurd. But that it came up on Day 2 of the Detroit Lions‘ formal offseason program Tuesday is a credit to quarterback Jared Goff and how well he played last season. With the NFL draft days away, and Jalen Hurts a new bazillionaire, the Lions face the
Allen Park — If pride comes before the fall, the Detroit Lions are doing everything to their power to make sure their pride doesn’t stumble in the face of growing expectations. A perpetual underdog, the Lions find themselves in the unusual role of favorites this offseason. National pundits and oddsmakers are head over heels for
Allen Park — As Lions defensive tackle Alim McNeill looked around the league at the best players at his position, he couldn’t help but wonder what was holding him back from being in that conversation. In his first two years, McNeill has been solid, but not spectacular. A third-round pick out of North Carolina State
Allen Park — A day after Jalen Hurts signed the richest contract in NFL history, at least by average annual value, quarterback Jared Goff acknowledged he has yet to enter negotiations with the Lions on a possible extension. Technically, there’s no rush. Goff has two years remaining on the four-year, $134 million pact he signed
Anthony Richardson, Florida Gators. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images) Mistakes will be made in the 2023 NFL Draft, but what if every team botched their first-round pick? We explore those options in this latest NFL Mock Draft. You’re going to see a ton of 2023 NFL mock draft projections predicting what teams are going to
Over the next several days, leading up to the 2023 NFL Draft, we’re taking a position-by-position look at the Detroit Lions’ roster and evaluating how the team might address each unit. Today: Tight ends. ▶ Current roster: Brock Wright, James Mitchell, Shane Zylstra, Derrick Deese Jr. ▶ Short-term need: Seven out of 10 ▶ Long-term need: Eight out of
Bryce Young (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images) NFL Draft rumors are heating up with the 2023 draft just over a week away with the Cowboys’ big target, the Texans scrambling at No. 2 and the Eagles’ luxury pick. On Thursday, April 27, the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft will get underway in Kansas
For several years, we’ve eschewed the immediate grading of the Detroit Lions’ draft classes. Without knowing how a player’s skill set will translate to the next level, or even their projected role, we’ve found it meaningless to offer that type of evaluation. Plus, it’s often said you don’t really know what you have in a
Let’s discuss the overall likelihood of Georgia star defensive tackle Jalen Carter going to the Detroit Lions at No. 6 in the 2023 NFL Draft. With Jalen Carter visiting the Detroit Lions on Monday, that makes it five teams picking inside of the top 10 who will have gotten top-30 visits from the Georgia superstar
Six months after he was briefly left unable to speak or move on the football field, Saivion Smith has re-signed with the Detroit Lions. Smith suffered a scary injury in an October loss to the New England Patriots, when he collapsed to the ground after trying to jam Patriots tight end Hunter Henry early in
A little more than six months after Saivion Smith was briefly paralyzed in the opening minutes of a football game between the Detroit Lions and New England Patriots, the cornerback is re-signing with the Lions and resuming his professional football career. A source familiar with the negotiations confirmed the agreement that was first reported by
One year later, everything has changed. For all of them. Detroit Tigers shortstop Javier Báez has gone from “Yes! Finally, the Tigers are spending some money” to “Ugh, I’m so sick of this, stop swinging at stuff in the dirt.” Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell has gone from “OK, he’s fun and a good quote