The Detroit Lions could have new uniforms next season, but team president Rod Wood has said it’s not coming until 2024.
By NFL rules, which say teams can change uniforms every five years, the Detroit Lions could have new uniforms next season (and they could by now have new uniforms, since they’re last re-design was in 2017). That has appeared somewhat likely going back about a year, and wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown appeared to tease a change fairly recently.
But no so fast.
Per Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press (subscription required), Lions team president Rod Wood said there’s no uniform change coming in 2023.
There will not be new uniforms in 2023,” Wood said. “I know people get over their skis on that. It takes really two years to really get it going, so (Lions chief communications and brand officer) Brian (Facchini) and a team have been kind of working with Nike, looking at uniforms that will probably be for 2024. It could be an interesting overhaul of the uniforms.
The Detroit Lions will look a little different in 2023 though
However, according to Wood, the Lions will have a new helmet design next season.
We will have a new alternative helmet though this year. We didn’t do that (in 2022).”
Birkett added the new helmet will look “significantly different” than the standard one. The Lions wear an all-silver helmet with their throwback uniforms.
Wood has previously said the Lions will be staying with their silver and blue color scheme, and dipping back to the franchise’s roots as the Portsmouth Spartans. The Spartans had purple, gold and black colors, and of course those first two colors are the familar colors of one of the Lions’ divisions rivals.
The Lions new helmet for 2023 will be paired with their grey alternate jersey, and it will be unveiled this spring.