Allen Park — Detroit Lions running back Jamaal Williams racked up some meaningful milestones in Sunday’s season finale against the Green Bay Packers, going over 1,000 yards for the first time in his career while topping Barry Sanders for the franchise’s single-season mark for rushing touchdowns. Now, Williams has been named the NFC’s Offensive Player
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If Sunday was Jamaal Williams’ last game as a Detroit Lions running back, he picked a heck of a way to go out. Williams was named NFC Offensive Player of Week on Wednesday after rushing for 72 yards and scoring two second-half touchdowns to lead the Lions to a 20-16 win over his old team,
This season, Brad Holmes proved he knows how to draft football players. On Tuesday, the Detroit Lions general manager proved he should never attempt a career as a poker player. That was painfully obvious during Holmes’ year-end news conference, when he showed his hand to anybody who wanted to take a peek and essentially announced
Take a victory lap, Brad Holmes. You deserve it. Not only are the Detroit Lions coming off a 9-8 record, their first winning season since 2017. Not only did Holmes, the Lions general manager, put together a fantastic 2022 draft class that produced immediately. Not only did he trade the Lions’ top tight end and
Allen Park — By the end, the Lions basically looked like a playoff team. By the start of next season, they should look exactly like a playoff team, as long as they keep playing the draft and trade games astutely. How did the Lions get from there (3-13-1) to here, one of the NFL’s rising
Lions general manager Brad Holmes was asked about the team’s future at QB and Jared Goff. He delivered a strong statement that offers some clarity. Even if the Detroit Lions just missed out on the playoffs, it’s hard not to be impressed with the culture that head coach Dan Campbell and general manager Brad Holmes
After a rocky first two NFL seasons, Jeff Okudah took a step forward with his play this fall. Now, the Detroit Lions must decide if that’s enough to warrant committing to Okudah for 2024. Lions general manager Brad Holmes said Tuesday no decision has been made yet on whether to pick up the fifth-year option
Allen Park — The Detroit Lions aren’t making it difficult to read between the lines regarding the future of the team’s quarterback position. Following a stellar second season with the Lions, with Jared Goff posting a passer rating of 99.3 while conducting one of the league’s top offenses, general manager Brad Holmes was asked if
The Detroit Lions just missed making the playoffs this season, but general manager Brad Holmes said he heads into the offseason feeling like the Lions “could have been in there and competed with” the teams at the top of the NFC. “Obviously, it didn’t work out,” Holmes said in Allen Park at his annual end-of-season
Allen Park — As Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes talked about the team’s 2022 rookie class at his end-of-season press conference Tuesday, it became increasingly amusing to recall the August and September hype surrounding sixth-round pick Malcolm Rodriguez. Holmes talked about Aidan Hutchinson and James Houston’s record-setting rookie seasons, about Kerby Joseph and his
An NFL mock draft constructed in January can only go so far in accurately predicting what will transpire in April. Even the full first-round order won’t be set until after the Super Bowl. The pre-draft process – from the Senior Bowl to the scouting combine and pro days – will further shape the work already
D’Andre Swift played most of this season with ankle and shoulder injuries, but the third-year Detroit Lions running back said he will not require surgery this offseason. “Long year,” Swift told the Free Press during locker room cleanout Monday. “Just blessed to be able to go out there and compete with the guys week in
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell could have said a lot of things about Ben Johnson. He could have played it cagey and hidden from the truth. In fact, he could have said nothing at all. But then that wouldn’t be Campbell. The man is practically incapable of not speaking his mind. So when it
Quay Walker, Green BAy Packers (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) 2022 NFL power rankings: Final regular season edition by Russell S. Baxter Quay Walker was the subject of negative attention on Sunday night for shoving a Detroit Lions trainer. He since spoke with the trainer, here’s what he said. Green Bay Packers linebacker Quay Walker
Dan Campbell leaned into Detroit Lions history when he took the job as head coach. He leaned into the pressure last week as his team prepared to play Green Bay. “Let’s find out,” he said when asked how his team would handle the national stage, the possibility of a playoff berth, Lambeau Field, Aaron Rodgers.
He acknowledged the stigma of Same Ol’ Lions and embraced the magnitude of winning a Week 18 game at Lambeau Field against the mighty Green Bay Packers, and now that his Detroit Lions have slayed both those dragons, Dan Campbell is setting his sights on something new. Campbell said what everyone was thinking late Sunday
I’m putting the Detroit Lions in the playoffs. Bleep it. If the NFL won’t, I will. I’ve watched every minute of every Lions game this season, and while they stunk up the joint early, from November onward, they’ve been a formidable team, one that grew stronger pretty much every week. By the end, in my
Allen Park — Talking to the media minutes after the Detroit Lions beat the Green Bay Packers Sunday night, coach Dan Campbell was asked about the future of the franchise. Within his answer, Campbell reference “the guys we plan on re-signing.” It hinted that some level of conversation had already taken place between the coach
Allen Park — Jared Goff took a victory lap Sunday night at Lambeau Field. Or half of one, at least, following the Lions’ season-ending triumph in Green Bay. Once the postgame handshakes and interviews were done on the field after Detroit’s 20-16 win, Goff took off down the sideline behind the visitors’ bench, where hundreds
Allen Park — The Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts and Carolina Panthers have put in requests to interview Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson for the franchise’s head-coaching vacancy, according to a team source familiar with the talks. The Colts also requested to interview Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn for their vacancy. On Monday, the Texans