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For the second Detroit game in a row, a Lions player has earned the NFC Player of the Week honor for his performance in a win. Brian Branch earned the NFC Defensive Player of the Week award from the NFL for his dominant play in Detroit’s 47-9 walloping of the Dallas Cowboys in Week 6.

A dominating 47-9 win over the Dallas Cowboys showed the Lions are ready to be among the contenders this season once again. But the win was extremely bittersweet as star edge-rusher Aidan Hutchinson was lost for the season with a broken tibia. Does that affect the Lions in the various media power rankings? Let’s see

Losing Aidan Hutchinson is a huge blow for the Detroit Lions defense. However, Lions head coach Dan Campbell remains upbeat about his defensive unit and their ability to overcome the loss of the Defensive Player of the Year front-runner after Week 6. In his weekly appearance on 97.1 The Ticket with Costa and Jensen, Campbell

It’s a big upcoming week for the NFC North. The Minnesota Vikings (5-0) will host the Detroit Lions (4-1) and the winner of this one will have the early-season division lead. Coming off their bye week, the Vikings should be well rested. On the other hand, Minnesota might not feel too comfortable despite their unblemished

Grit and toughness have been the mantra of this team since Dan Campbell took over as head coach three years ago. Players who have exemplified this such Jared Goff, Penei Sewell, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Taylor Decker, and David Montgomery have been rewarded with big contract extensions in just the past few months. Alim McNeill is

The Detroit Lions have locked up another significant building block. Per his agent, Mike McCartney, Alim McNeill and the Lions have agreed to a four-year contract extension. McCartney did not provide the monetary details, though reports from other sources indicate it’s a four-year deal worth $97 million. It’s a significant signing for the Lions in

It’s now official: the Detroit Lions have placed Aidan Hutchinson on the injured reserve list. The Lions announced the move on Tuesday, two days after the standout EDGE broke his left legbroke his left leg in a blowout win over the Dallas Cowboys. Detroit also placed DT Kyle Peko on I.R. Peko tore a pectoral

Through the first six weeks of the NFL season, the Detroit Lions lead the NFL in scoring offense. Ben Johnson’s unit averages 30.2 PPG, a figure bolstered by two straight games of topping 40 points. Johnson’s offense is so potent because they’re very good at creating explosive plays. Whether it’s on the ground or in

The Lions lost more than just Aidan Hutchinson to injury in the Week 6 win over Dallas. Detroit also saw veteran defensive tackle Kyle Peko go down with a serious injury. Reports indicate that Peko suffered a torn pectoral muscle during the first quarter of the Lions’ 47-9 win over the Cowboys. He was injured

The Detroit Lions are bringing in a new pass rushing presence to help compensate for the losses of Marcus Davenport and Aidan Hutchinson. Per a report from ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, the Lions are signing Isaiah Thomas from the Bengals. Thomas is currently on the Bengals practice squad, but he’s been with the Cleveland Browns for

These are the injuries I picked up on my initial watch. Unfortunately, there are two possible season-enders coming out of the Cowboys game. Kyle Peko – left pec, 1q 7:55 Peko hurt his left pec during an attempted tackle. Pec tears can occur during an eccentric motion which occurred here when the runner broke away

The Detroit Lions are actively seeking solutions to the devastating loss of top pass rusher Aidan Hutchinson. The front-runner for Defensive Player of the Year is out for the season after suffering a broken left leg that required immediate surgery in Detroit’s 47-9 win in Dallas in Week 6. As head coach Dan Campbell met

The Pro Football Focus grades for the Detroit Lions after the team’s 47-9 evisceration of the host Dallas Cowboys are some of the best marks that can be earned. While some players didn’t have their best games, most Lions wound up having season-high PFF marks for 2024. In addition, the overall team wound up earning

Putting the beatdown on the Cowboys in Dallas certainly helped the national credibility of the Detroit Lions as top Super Bowl contenders. In fact, the 47-9 blowout lifted the Lions to the top spot in ESPN’s ever-adaptive Football Power Index. In the last daily update of the index, the Lions win in Week 6 catapulted

On October 13, 2024, the Lions lost their most important defensive player in Aidan Hutchinson. Video is consistent with a left tibia and fibula fracture (tib/fib). The mechanism of this injury can be due to a leg whip action which is what happened here. In this case, Hutchinson’s left leg whipped around and impacted Alim

The Lions’ offense is rolling as of late. Detroit rested up during the bye week and used that energy, and perhaps some pent-up anger from last season, to lay a beatdown on the Dallas Cowboys with a 47-9 victory. The Lions scored 40-plus points for the second straight week, following a 42-29 win over the

One of the persistent knocks on Jared Goff throughout his lengthy NFL career has been his decline in play when under pressure. It’s dogged Goff back to his days as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams, and it’s followed him to his successful renaissance in Detroit.

Detroit Lions defensive star Aidan Hutchinson suffered a serious injury in the team’s 47-9 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. Hutchinson was carted off after sacking Cowboys QB Dak Prescott in the third quarter of the win, the victim of a gruesome lower leg injury caused by a friendly-fire collision with a teammate. The

Tom Brady got his first in-person look at the Detroit Lions in Week 6. The legendary NFL quarterback was part of the FOX broadcast crew along with Kevin Burkhardt, and the game in Dallas was Brady’s first time on the mic for a Lions game. Brady witnessed one of the greatest games in Lions history.

The Detroit Lions are healthy enough coming out of the Week 5 bye week that all the gameday inactive players for the Week 6 matchup with the Dallas Cowboys are healthy scratches. The list includes EDGE James Houston, who has been replaced in the Week 6 lineup by undrafted rookie Isaac Ukwu. It’s the NFL