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The Detroit Lions announced their presence as a contender in the NFC during the 2023 season. In Year 3 under general manager Brad Holmes and head coach Dan Campbell, the team broke through in a major way. The Lions went 12-5 this season, matching the total number of wins under Campbell in his first two

The Indianapolis Colts are in desperate need of some weapons in the aerial attack, and if they don’t shore up their receiving corps, quarterback Anthony Richardson could be in for a trying 2024 campaign. If it wasn’t already enough that the Colts are going to have to try and re-sign wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr.,

The Detroit Lions are coming off of one of the best seasons in the history of their franchise, but it still seems pretty clear that their roster needs some work. Especially on the defensive side of the ball. Bleacher Report’s NFL Scouting Department thinks the Lions should add a piece to their interior defensive line

The Lions are making some changes on their defensive staff. One of the moves will be bringing former defensive coordinator Jim O’Neil back to the NFL. Out of the league since the 2020 season, O’Neil will return as a Detroit defensive assistant. The 45-year-old staffer spent two seasons as Northwestern’s DC, but was last in

The Detroit Lions made some changes to their coaching staff on Wednesday. They first made the hires of both Terrell Williams and Deshea Townsend official. Both were hired in the last few weeks.  The Lions also hired former Northwestern defensive coordinator Jim O’Neil to be a defensive assistant on their staff. In additon to his

Williams, 49, began his coaching career at Fort Scott CC in 1998 as a DL coach. He had a number of stops at different colleges before taking his first NFL coaching job with the Raiders as their DL coach in 2012. From there, Williams spent three years as the Dolphins DL coach before the Titans

The 2023 season was a big one for the Detroit Lions as the hard work by general manager Brad Holmes and head coach Dan Campbell began to bear fruit. Detroit won the NFC North division and advanced to the NFC Championship Game, where they were defeated in comeback fashion by the San Francisco 49ers. This

Detroit will save around $5.5 million in cap space by releasing Walker and be left with a $7.3 million dead money charge, per Over The Cap. Walker, 29, was drafted by the Lions in the third round out of Louisiana in 2018. After finishing a four-year, $3.51 million rookie contract, Walker agreed to a three-year,

The Detroit Lions released Tracy Walker, ESPN reported Tuesday, after the veteran safety posted a goodbye message to the team’s fans on social media. Walker has spent his entire six-year NFL career with Detroit. He was set to carry a $12.82 million cap hit in 2024, the final year of his contract. “Detroit I want

Here’s a move that you knew would happen at some point, but you just hate to see. While there’s been no official word at this time, the Detroit Lions appear to be parting ways with former third-round pick Tracy Walker per the safety’s Instagram. Walker was a big part of this team when he signed

C.J. Gardner-Johnson‘s injury led Tracy Walker back into the Lions’ starting lineup, but the veteran did not hold down the job. Detroit will now move on from Walker’s second contract. Walker re-signed with the Lions on a three-year, $25M deal in 2022, but an injury hampered him on that deal. The Lions are cutting bait

NFL free agency is less than three weeks away and the NFL Combine is next week. The Detroit Lions are going to be looking to fill holes in free agency, but we don’t quite know what those are just yet. So today we want to talk about my choice for best prospect the Lions could

We’ve reached the second half of February. Now it’s time to start talking about free agent prospects for the Detroit Lions. Here’s what we’re going to do. I’m going to break it all down by positions of need. First we’ll put out of list of players to watch for the Lions and then we’ll break

Bears Amidst the drama surrounding the Bears’ quarterback situation, Chicago LB T.J. Edwards chimed in how he feels about QB Justin Fields. Edwards spoke very highly about Fields to the media at Super Bowl Week, advocating for why he should be brought back. “What I love about him is I could tell him Day 1

This is truly one of my favorite things to do each year. With free agency coming up there’s plenty of Detroit Lions fans that take to Twitter and put out tweets that say something to the effect of “Lions should sign blank.” This is my time to break some hearts and explain why you really

Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff recently spoke with West Wilson of Complex about earning a wild-card playoff victory over the Los Angeles Rams, Goff’s employer from 2016 through the 2020 season, this past January.  “I’ve talked about that so much recently and I really think the thing that still rings true is how much more

For the earlier part of February, we’ll be looking at some of the Lions free agents who’s potential of coming back to Detroit seems up in the air right now. We’ll be doing these as pros and cons pieces. So far we’ve covered Jonah Jackson, C.J. Gardner-Johnson, Emmanuel Moseley, Josh Reynolds and Graham Glasgow. Today we cover

Who doesn’t love a good reunion story? When Jalen Reeves-Maybin left the Lions after the 2021 season, that felt like it was it for that story. Then after a year with the Texans, he came back to Detroit and had an All-Pro season and made his first Pro Bowl too. Graham Glasgow also went away

Detroit Lions safety Ifeatu Melifonwu kind of came out of nowhere in 2023. The Lions drafted him with a third-round pick in their first draft and he had been so quiet that it felt like maybe that pick was a bust. Melifonwu just couldn’t find his spot. Then the Lions put him in the lineup

After three seasons, Amon-Ra St. Brown of the Detroit Lions has soared into rarefied production heights within both the franchise and the league’s history books. Widely acknowledged as one of the NFL’s premier wide receivers, St. Brown now finds himself poised at the threshold of the final year of his rookie contract. Among the Lions’