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Picture it with me if you would. It’s a dark and stormy night and Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell is in his lab with beakers and Bunsen burners and he’s almost finished his creation when he begins laughing maniacally and screams “It’s alive man!”  Then, after some rumbles and shakes, you see Illinois receiver

Speaking in absolutes is something that only a sith would do. If that’s the truth, call me Darth Payton. Last year I walked out of the NFL Combine knowing that Sione Vaki was a Lion. I felt it on every level. It just made way too much sense.  After a week at the 2025 NFL

While it’s NFL Combine week and the focus has been mostly on draft prospects and who the Lions will wind up with, we are just 11 days away from the free agency tampering period beginning. So naturally there’s some free agent talk happening.  ESPN’s Aaron Schatz put out his best free agency fits for all

The Detroit Lions are reportedly headed towards a tough decision to make for their roster, entering the new league year.  According to Tom Pelissero, Detroit plans to release former All-Pro LB Jalen Reeves-Maybin when the new league years begins.  Reeves-Maybin has been a notable piece of the special teams unit in Detroit for quite some

According to OverTheCap.com, releasing Reeves-Maybin will create $1,895,000 of cap space to go along with $2.75 million of dead money. Reeves-Maybin, 30, is a former fourth-round pick of the Lions back in 2017. He played out the final year of his four-year, $3.01 million contract and re-signed with the Lions on a one-year deal. Reeves-Maybin

Better known now for his role as the NFLPA president, Jalen Reeves-Maybin remains an active player. He will likely be on the hunt for a new team soon. The Lions are prepared to move on. Detroit is set to release the veteran linebacker/special-teamer once the league year begins, per NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero. Reeves-Maybin has spent

The Detroit Lions scored huge in 2023 when they were able to get Alabama safety Brian Branch in the second round of the NFL Draft. Looking back on it, it still makes no sense to anyone that he slipped out of the first round.  Here we are two years later at the 2025 NFL Combine

Day three of the 2025 NFL Combine is in the books and the Detroit Lions have been showing some heavy interest in a position that you might not think they’d have heavy interest in. That’s the tight end spot. The Lions obviously have Sam LaPorta and Brock Wright at the moment and that seems good

Detroit’s top draft priority is to reinforce the Lions’ injury-riddled defense. However, the top defensive talent could be long gone by the time the Lions are on the clock. One underrated prospect could be available late in the first round. Underrated Draft Prospect Detroit Lions Should Consider Lions Draft Candidates  For the Lions to take

The NFL has gone through some rule changes in recent history and they tend to adopt some of the rules that are tried out in the UFL first. For example, last season the NFL changed its kick-off rules in favor of going with the UFL’s design.  The NFL might soon go with a new UFL

The Detroit Lions’ offseason is in full go right now and we’re rapidly approaching free agency at the beginning of March. Anytime between now and the 2025 NFL Draft, the Lions could start extending the contracts of some players. The big one that everyone is rightly focusing on is Aidan Hutchinson. It appears the Lions

The Detroit Lions’ offseason is in full go right now and we’re rapidly approaching free agency at the beginning of March. Anytime between now and the 2025 NFL Draft, the Lions could start extending the contracts of some players. The big one that everyone is rightly focusing on is Aidan Hutchinson. It appears the Lions

Look, I get it. Ben Johnson coaches the Chicago Bears now and there’s a heavy amount of Detroit Lions fans that are a tad bit salty about it.  This has created a situation where Lions fans have found new ways to hate him because they could not possibly say he was bad at his job.

The Detroit Lions have been a team that’s been really heavy on positional versatility since Brad Holmes took over as GM. This team loves a guy who can do more than one thing. The 2025 NFL Draft has a few of them.  The one that stands out the most though is Ole Miss’ J.J. Peguess.

Jameson Williams has had a wild ride in the NFL. His first two years did not go as planned, from suspensions to injuries and inconsistent play. 2024 was the year that Williams broke out and established himself as a true WR2 in a Detroit Lions offense that was among the best in the NFL. Jameson

This was the easiest possible call that you could make when the Detroit Lions season ended in January. You knew that Aaron Glenn was going to leave and there was absolutely nobody that could be better to take his spot than Kelvin Shepperd.  You knew Sheppard was ready for this in 2022 when he took

This was the easiest possible call that you could make when the Detroit Lions season ended in January. You knew that Aaron Glenn was going to leave and there was absolutely nobody that could be better to take his spot than Kelvin Shepperd.  You knew Sheppherd was ready for this in 2022 when he took

Things haven’t had to change for the Detroit Lions in a while. They’ve been one of the lucky teams that have been good and managed to keep all their coaches. That is until this offseason when they lost a whole slew of guys.  One of the big losses was offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. In the

The Detroit Lions have built through the draft over the past few years. While Jared Goff was brought in via trade, the rest of the roster was largely drafted by Brad Holmes. Success in the NFL is dependent on drafting well. Everyone has their misses, but overall, the teams that draft well tend to have

The 2025 NFL Scouting Combine can be an underestimated source of knowledge. General managers and head coaches can be coy, but some are much more candid with their intentions about what will happen in the offseason. Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes opted for honesty on Tuesday. After talking about the difficulty of finding quality