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Welcome to Week 4 of the NFL season. Things are about to get interesting. It’s usually about this time that we start figuring out who’s really good and who was just pretending to be good. We won’t know for sure for another month or so, but things usually start shaking out about here.  There’s some

It’s good when you feel like so many players are having noteworthy seasons that you maybe miss a guy or just don’t think to talk about it. It feels like that’s happening with the Detroit Lions right now.  Aidan Hutchinson is exploding, Penei Sewell is killing it, Jameson Williams is breaking out and David Montgomery

Cutdown time is the hardest time there is for teams. Sometimes they have to get rid of guys they really like because there just isn’t room. For the Detroit Lions, they had a hard move when they cut linebacker Abraham Beauplan after a solid camp and preseason.  The former Viking signed with the Lions in

Dan Campbell has turned the fate of the Detroit Lions around during his tenure as the team’s head coach earning himself the respect and admiration of the entire fanbase. However, a few bad apples exist that cause chaos and overstep boundaries. In this case, the bad apples were the classmates of Campbell’s daughter. They leaked

After three weeks of the regular season, several rookies are already making their mark in the NFL. Here’s an evaluation of each NFC North team’s top draft pick, accompanied by a grade based on how they’ve fared: Chicago Bears: QB Caleb Williams (No. 1 overall) Williams played the worst of his three games (48.3 completion

On Sunday the New Orleans Saints and Philadelphia Eagles had quite a defensive battle. There weren’t a lot of points going on the board and it was good game, but one bad thing did happen in this game that has players talking.  Eagles receiver Devonta Smith took a really bad hit that resulted in him

What a week it’s been for me and Terrion Arnold. On Monday I suggested that the Detroit Lions bench their first round cornerback. by benching I meant don’t start him for a couple games and have him come off the bench while he works on technique. Specifically in the area of pass interference, something he

Detroit Lions Pro Bowl center Frank Ragnow sustained a partially torn pectoral muscle in Sunday’s win over the Arizona Cardinals, but the team hasn’t ruled him out for the season — or even for the next game, according to head coach Dan Campbell. Campbell’s Comments on Ragnow Speaking on 97.1 The Ticket’s “Costa & Jansen

The Detroit Lions made a couple expected moves on Tuesday after dealing with some injuries after Sunday’s win over the Arizona Cardinals. Here’s what they did:  Placed Marcus Davenport and Derrick Barnes on injured reserve There’s no shock with either of these really. Davenport is a season ending injury that we’ve known about since Monday.

The team also signed WR Tim Patrick to their active roster and signed DB Morice Norris to the practice squad. Davenport, 28, was drafted by the Saints in the first round out of UTSA in 2018. He signed a four-year, $13.741 million rookie contract with the Saints in 2018 that included an $8.074 million signing

Barnes, 25, was a three-year starter at Purdue and a second-team All-Big Ten in 2020. The Lions drafted Barnes with pick No. 113 overall in the fourth round of the 2021 draft. He is in the final year of a four-year rookie deal worth $4,261,205 million that includes a $4,261,205 million signing bonus. In 2024,

The Lions’ injury situation just keeps getting worse, with linebacker Derrick Barnes expected to be placed on injured reserve after suffering a knee injury in Detroit’s Week 3 victory over the Cardinals on Sunday, per ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. Head coach Dan Campbell said that Barnes would be out for a significant amount of time, according

Dan Campbell revealed recently that he had to move out of his Detroit-area home after word got around that he lived there, and a new report has shed light on how that information was released. In an interview with Crain’s Detroit Business that was published last Wednesday, Campbell shared that he and his wife Holly

The Lions are set to be without their Pro Bowl center for an extended period. Frank Ragnow suffered a torn pectoral muscle during the team’s Week 3 win, Dan Campbell confirmed Tuesday. During an appearance on 97.1’s “Costa & Jansen with Heather” (via ESPN.com’s Eric Woodyard), Campbell said the veteran blocker wants to keep playing. The

Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell announced Monday that defensive end Marcus Davenport is likely out for the remainder of the season due to an elbow injury he sustained in Sunday’s win over the Arizona Cardinals. The nature of the injury is a torn triceps, ESPN reported. Campbell added that the 28-year-old was looking into other

Lions C Frank Ragnow suffered a partially torn pectoral muscle and is considered week-to-week, according to Ian Rapoport. Ragnow’s injury isn’t considered season-ending and the belief is he could return soon. Ragnow, 28, is a former first-round pick of the Lions back in 2018. He was in the final year of his four-year, $11.7 million

The Detroit Lions have lost a former first-round pick for the season due to an injury. Lions head coach Dan Campbell told reporters on Monday that Marcus Davenport is out for the season due to an elbow injury. Davenport had suffered an elbow injury in the Lions’ 20-13 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.

Davenport, 28, was drafted by the Saints in the first round out of UTSA in 2018. He signed a four-year, $13.741 million rookie contract with the Saints in 2018 that included an $8.074 million signing bonus. The Saints picked up his fifth-year option for the 2022 season that paid him $9.553 million fully guaranteed. Davenport

Ok, this might make some Lions fans upset because this the Lions first-round pick we’re talking about here. We’re not calling him a bust here because he’s far from it. We’re not even saying that Arnold should be benched for the rest of the season. We’re saying it’s time for him to sit down for

The Detroit Lions got a nice win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday and it was their defense that really had a great day. The team held the Cardinals to just 277 yards and just one third down conversion out of nine tries.  The big takeaway here was that the Lions were able to stop