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During the owners meetings down in Florida earlier in the offseason, zero of the Detroit Lions’ three rule proposals for the 2025 season passed. The league declined the proposal to get rid of automatic first downs on illegal contact, and the opted to table their other two proposals—a change to how injured reserve works and…

The Detroit Lions have faced a lot of questions about their depth at defensive end and who will start opposite Aidan Hutchinson. Marcus Davenport has always seemed to be the answer for the starting job, although that has come with plenty of skepticism. Due to injuries, Davenport has played in just six games over the…

The Detroit Lions’ secondary made some significant strides last year, but they are entering 2025 with a couple of significant questions. For one, Detroit doesn’t have clear, defined depth behind their two All-Pro-caliber safety. Additionally, the role of second-year cornerback Ennis Rakestraw—who missed most of his rookie season with injury—was only up for speculation.

While the Detroit Lions are entering the 2025 NFL season with a historically-challenging road schedule, they do have an underlying advantage: they lead the league in net rest differential. According to ESPN’s Brian Burke, the Lions boast a +13-day net rest edge over their opponents. This means that, cumulatively, Detroit will have 13 more days…

No matter how you slice it, the Detroit Lions’ 2025 schedule looks pretty darn difficult. And while perception of schedule rarely meets reality—as Ty Schalter pointed out in last week’s Pride of Detroit Direct Newsletter—the fact remains that Detroit has a lot of teams who are perceived as very talented on their slate this fall.

The Detroit Lions managed to avoid the bye week blues. With the official release of the 2025 NFL schedule, we now have a clear picture of which teams Detroit will face and when. Equally important, however, is the bye week. This week off can provide much needed recovery for a weary and injured team.

We’ve known the opponents for months, and now we’ve got the rest of the details. The when and in what order were figured out on Wednesday night as the Detroit Lions learned what their 2025 schedule looks like. Before we knew the order of the games, the Lions’ schedule appeared daunting at first glance. Based…

The 2025 NFL regular season schedule was released on Wednesday night, and the Detroit Lions will kick things off at Lambeau Field, where they’ll take on their division rival Green Bay Packers. The Lions and the Packers both made the playoffs in 2024, and each is considered a strong contender for the NFC North crown…

On Wednesday, the NFL dropped the 2025 schedule for all 32 teams. Here are the six things I like most about the Detroit Lions’ 2025 schedule. The Lions knock out four away games in the first six weeks of the season at Packers, Ravens, Bengals, and Chiefs—all played by mid-October. All of those games had…

The Detroit Lions 2025 schedule has been released, and it’s once again time to make some way-too-early predictions for the season. For the fourth season in a row, Jeremy Reisman and I have made our game-by-game predictions of the Lions’ schedule. And while their individual game predictions have not always been spot on, we have…

Get ready to spend your holidays with the Detroit Lions. In addition to their annual Thanksgiving Day game, the Lions will be playing on Christmas this year. Minnesota Vikings reporter Ben Goessling reported on Wednesday that the Detroit Lions will face off against the Minnesota Vikings (in Minnesota) on December 25. The game will be…

The first leak of the Detroit Lions’ 2025 season has dropped and it’s a big one. According to Jordan Schultz, the Lions will open the season on the road against the Green Bay Packers. The Lions and Packers are both coming off somewhat successful seasons. Both teams made the playoffs last year, with the Lions…

It’s fair to call 2024 a breakout season for Detroit Lions first-round pick Jameson Williams. After a lengthy rehab from a torn ACL, some early struggles on the field, and a pair of setbacks via suspensions, Williams needed to prove his worth and did. Williams reached 1,001 yards during the regular season, and showed just…

NFL schedule release is a funny thing, being released in spurts and fits, but we all wait for it because it means preparing for trips and speculating on the nature of a season. It’s not about who, it’s the when that matters in it all. With just a couple days to go, we’re going to…

The Detroit Lions will host their 86th Thanksgiving Day classic, hoping to improve their overall record on the holiday of 38-45-2. But before we can start predicting wins and losses, we need to know who their opponent will be on Thanksgiving. This year, the Lions host eight different teams at Ford Field for the 2025…

The last game of the regular season can sometimes mean everything for a team. Last year, the Detroit Lions won the division and the NFC’s one seed in a huge game against the Minnesota Vikings. While that one seed didn’t end up being as handy as you’d think in the playoffs, it was still one…

The Detroit Lions roster is officially up to 90 players. On Monday, the team announced they had signed three players who were at rookie minicamp as tryout players over the weekend, releasing another. Tight end Luke Deal, wide receiver Malik Taylor, and defensive lineman Raequan Williams are all now officially part of the team. In…

For a few weeks now, the Detroit Lions have been posting photo galleries of daily offseason workouts, but there has been one noticeable absence. Defensive end Aidan Hutchinson hadn’t shown up in a single photo gallery since Detroit started their offseason program on April 22. But for Monday’s gallery (May 12), Hutchinson was front and…

Are the Detroit Lions ready for another season in the national spotlight? Last season, the Lions played seven primetime games. They played on “Sunday Night Football” against the Los Angeles Rams (Week 1), Houston Texans (Week 10), and Minnesota Vikings (Week 18). They had a pair of back-to-back Thursday games in Week 13 and Week…

The NFL schedule release has become one of the bigger days of the offseason. But the NFL is apparently no longer happy with the schedule release being a single moment on a single day. So this year, the NFL has a full week of scheduled releases of games for the 2025 season.