Each of the four Detroit Lions players selected to the Pro Bowl will have a role in the various skills competitions that will make up the week’s revamped festivities. Offensive linemen Frank Ragnow and Penei Sewell will participate in the “Lightning Round,” pitting 20 players against each other in a three-part challenge that will see
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MOBILE, Ala. — As a freshman at Louisiana, O’Cyrus Torrence would spend hours in his offensive line coach’s office watching tape. Then-Louisiana assistant Rob Sale was trying to get Torrence up to speed on the finer points of offensive line play, and as he talked through terminology with his massive recruit — the 6-foot-5, 337-pound
Hello, Tom Brady? It’s me, retirement. Let me start by saying: “You again?” Most people retire once. Oh, not everyone. Sinatra didn’t. Streisand. Garth Brooks. Lots of athletes; Michael Jordan, George Foreman, Brett Favre. Sometimes, it works out. Most of the time, it doesn’t. Yours didn’t. You came back for one more year in the
Mobile, Ala. — The only certainty about the NFL Draft is that there are no certainties. And yet, if there is any foregone conclusion about the Detroit Lions’ draft plans, it’s that they’ll draft a cornerback — maybe even two or three. The team’s lack of talent at all levels of the depth chart is
Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn is still in the mix to become the next head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. Glenn will interview with the Colts a second time on Thursday, CBS Sports reported, becoming the eighth known candidate to get a second interview for the job. In his second season with the Lions,
Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn remains under consideration for the head-coaching vacancies in both Indianapolis and Arizona, according to various reports. CBS Sports is reporting Glenn is one of a handful of candidates getting a second interview with the Colts. Following the midseason firing coach Frank Reich — who has since taken the head
MOBILE, Ala. — Duce Staley, whose intense coaching style and straightforward approach with players made him a hit on “Hard Knocks,” is leaving the Detroit Lions to join Frank Reich’s staff with the Carolina Panthers. Staley spent the past two seasons as the Lions’ assistant head coach/running backs coach, and helped the Lions post two
Sitting on the couch, eating my morning yogurt, watching ESPN’s “Get Up.” And the news popped across the TV. Tom Brady is retiring. No, seriously this time. And they aired his short, homemade retirement video. “I know the process was a pretty big deal last time, so when I woke up this morning, I figured
Allen Park — The Detroit Lions coaching staff continues to undergo offseason changes, as running backs coach and assistant head coach Duce Staley is departing to join the Carolina Panthers, a source familiar with the move confirmed to The Detroit News. In Carolina, Staley will reconnect with the recently hired Frank Reich. The two previously
MOBILE, Ala. — Aubrey Miller Jr. did not get to watch many Detroit Lions games this season, but the Jackson State linebacker kept close tabs on the team — and his good friend, James Houston — through social media. Houston had eight sacks in seven games after opening the season on the Lions practice squad.
You watch these NFL playoffs and, for the first time in a long time, you think: Why can’t this be the Detroit Lions next year? Why can’t it be the Lions in the NFC championship game? Why can’t it be in the Lions, getting ready for the Super Bowl? And I have come to a
BURROWHEAD, Mo. — OK, I’m not actually in Missouri. But I am firmly and figuratively situated in the mind space that belongs to the Cincinnati Bengals’ quarterback. So that’s where I thought I’d start this column, because, frankly, I can’t stop thinking about what Joe Burrow said after the Bengals beat the Baltimore Ravens in
Mobile, Ala. — Just a few months after Detroit Lions rookie James Houston took the NFL by storm, there’s another Jackson State prospect looking to make a similar impact. His name is Aubrey Miller Jr., and he’s a participant at the Senior Bowl down in Mobile, Alabama this week. He, like Houston, started his college
Mobile, Ala. — In his season-ending press conference, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes said there was “a lot of merit” to the idea of drafting a quarterback that can develop behind Jared Goff. On the first day of Senior Bowl practices Tuesday, University of Tennessee quarterback and former Heisman hopeful Hendon Hooker said a
Jared Goff is in rare company as a Detroit Lions quarterback. Goff was added to the NFC Pro Bowl roster Tuesday, joining teammates Frank Ragnow, Penei Sewell and Amon-Ra St. Brown in the game. The Lions have four offensive players in the Pro Bowl for the first time since 1971, and Goff is the second
Allen Park — A day after teammates Amon-Ra St. Brown and Penei Sewell were added to the Pro Bowl roster, Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff got the bump on Tuesday. Initially named third alternate for the NFC squad, Goff will take the place of Philadelphia Eagles starter Jalen Hurts, who will be leading his team
Mobile, Ala. — After 73 years, it was time for a change. And according to Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy, who opened the week’s festivities with a press conference at the Mobile Convention Center on Tuesday morning, the event’s new coaching format should ultimately be a positive for everyone involved. In years past, the
It’s a copycat league, the NFL. So goes the saying, and the saying is going around a lot at the moment, as it always does this time of the year, when the schedule has winnowed the field to two, and the runup to the Super Bowl doesn’t quite ramp up for another week. So, yeah,
The Detroit Lions got an up-close look at Senior Bowl prospects last season when they coached the American team in the annual college all-star game. They won’t have the same luxury this season, as the NFL has allocated full coaching staffs to the Shrine Game instead of the Senior Bowl, but Lions assistant Shaun Dion