Free Press sports reporter Dave Birkett takes a position-by-position look at the top prospects and biggest Detroit Lions needs in the 2023 NFL draft. This is the third in an eight-part series: Jared Goff changed the narrative about the Lions’ quarterback position, and his future as its caretaker, with a strong season in 2022. After struggling
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On Friday, the league announced that Detroit Lions Jameson Williams was among five NFL players—four Lions players—who have been suspended for sports gambling. Williams suspension is for six games because he gambled on non-NFL games while at a team facility. Others, including Lions’ C.J. Moore and Quintez Cephus, were given indefinite suspensions, because they gambled…
News of four Detroit Lions suspended by the NFL for violating the league’s policy on gambling reminds football fans of a similar circumstance, involving the same team, exactly 60 years ago. While sports gambling is legal in many more states nowadays, including Michigan, and the NFL has not shied away from corporate partnerships with online
The NFL published the finding of its latest gambling probe, and the Detroit Lions are one of two teams affected. Four Lions players have been disciplined after a league investigation that also spread to the Washington Commanders found players violated league policy on wagering. Here’s what we know about the case: What happened? News broke
Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams will be suspended for the first six games of the 2023 season, so how much pay will he lose for his mistake? On Friday morning the NFL announced five players have been suspended for violating the league’s gambling policy, including four Detroit Lions (two now-former Lions) headlined by wide receiver
The NFL dropped a bombshell on Friday morning, announcing the suspensions of four Detroit Lions players and one Washington Commander for gambling. In Detroit, that meant that safety C.J. Moore and wide receiver Quintez Cephus were handed indefinite suspensions because they were found to have gambled on NFL games. The Lions responded by releasing both…
The Detroit Lions have found themselves at the center of a gambling problem. On Friday morning, the NFL announced that they have handed down suspensions of four Lions players in relation to gambling violations. Safety C.J. Moore and wide receiver Quintez Cephus have been suspended indefinitely for gambling on NFL games and have been released
Four Detroit Lions players, including second-year wide receiver Jameson Williams, have been suspended by the NFL for violation of the league’s gambling policy. Wide receiver Quintez Cephus and C.J. Moore have been suspended indefinitely and subsequently released by the team. Williams and wide receiver Stanley Berryhill each have been banned the first six games of
The NFL has suspended five players for violating the league’s gambling policy, including Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams. 5 NFL players got popped with hefty suspensions for betting on football, including Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams and three of his teammates. Detroit receiver Quintez Cephus and safety C.J. Moore have been suspended indefinitely,
Allen Park — Let’s be clear from the jump: The news Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams will be suspended the first six games of the season is an unequivocal gut punch. But it is not back-breaking, and in no way should it alter the franchise’s goals and aspirations of claiming its first division title in
A look at the Detroit Lions‘ depth chart for 2023, after free agency entering the April 27-29 NFL draft. The Lions added eight new players in free agency and re-signed a host of others. They lost nine players and completed a revamped secondary by trading 2020 No. 3 overall pick Jeff Okudah. But their receiver
The 88th annual National Football League Player Selection Meetings, better known to all of us as the NFL draft, is quickly approaching. This year’s 2023 event, as in years past, is basically the Super Bowl for every team that didn’t win last year’s championship. Here’s the skinny on what you need to know about the
Back in 2021, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes knew as early as the NFL owners meetings the handful of players he was comfortable taking with the seventh-overall pick. The following year, he had a pretty good idea what the team was going to do considering the Lions held the No. 2 overall pick.
An ESPN report says the Philadelphia Eagles are hiring former Lions head coach Matt Patricia, but there’s not much evidence that it has actually happened yet. After an ill-fated season as the New England Patriots’ offensive play caller, former Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia is looking for a new job. On Thursday, ESPN’s Adam