Pride of Detroit

Cheers to another installment of the Detroit Lions free agent profiles series for the 2023-2024 season. Today, the discussion is the late free agent addition to the team in tight end Zach Ertz. Ertz never did see the playing field for the Lions, despite being signed in January and the tight end room only having…

We’ve come to the end of our 2023 Pride of Detroit, and it’s time to give out the biggest award of them all: Most Valuable Player. Ask any five people, and they’ll likely give you five different definition of “MVP,” and we didn’t explicitly define it for our staff. Just asked, quite simply: Who was…

Our 2024 NFL Combine preview series continues to roll along as we take another step closer to the big event—scheduled to be televised on Thursday, February 29. So far in this series, we have previewed the quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends that the Detroit Lions should have eyes on, and in this…

The Detroit Lions are in a much different position in 2024 than they have been in recent years, heading into the draft with their first pick sitting at 29th overall. It’s the lowest the Lions have picked in a long time, and the first time they’re picking beyond the teens since 2017. As much as…

The NFL never sleeps, and in less than a month the gates of free agency will open. While there’s always greener pastures for fans in the form of exciting top names, the big priority for teams is looking to their own rosters and figuring out who is worth re-signing and extending. For the Detroit Lions,…

The Detroit Lions community collectively rejoiced when Ben Johnson announced he’d be staying in Detroit for another season. Part of the hard feelings over the loss to San Francisco in the NFC Championship was knowing, in all likelihood, the highly regarded offensive guru would not return. While he won’t be leaving the Motor City just…

After getting their first playoff win since 1991 and nearly making a Super Bowl appearance, the Detroit Lions are in unfamiliar territory as they look to build upon last year’s results and use the offseason to take an already very good roster to the next level. And the first step towards making that happen is…

Our 2024 NFL Combine preview series is marching along as we inch towards the NFL’s televised coverage of the event on Thursday, February 29. So far, we have already previewed which quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers the Detroit Lions should be scouting, and in this article, we wrap up the offensive skill positions by…

The 2023 season wasn’t just unforgettable for the Detroit Lions, but it was a year I’ll never forget professionally. It was a record year for Pride of Detroit in so many ways. Our community has never been bigger, we’ve never had a wider reach in terms of variety of content we offer, we broke records…

The 2023 Detroit Lions season did not have a shortage of memorable moments. When a team erases droughts of three decades or longer, it tends to stick in your head for a while. But was there one moment—one play—that sticks out above the rest? We’ll decide that today as we examine our latest Pride of…

After the Detroit Lions’ loss to the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game, coach Dan Campbell offered a chilling statement to his team and the media. “I told those guys, this may have been our only shot,” Campbell said. “Do I think that? No. Do I believe that? No. However, I know how hard it…

The Detroit Lions are entering a critical junction in their current era: how can they achieve that next step? Though 2023 was a season to remember, it is also just a memory now. Time moves on, and so too do players and contracts. The Lions will have many decisions to make with free agents. Who…

The Detroit Lions are likely to make some significant changes in their defensive roster this offseason. Not only are there a handful of free agents who may not come back (Charles Harris, Romeo Okwara, Will Harris, Emmanuel Moseley, C.J. Gardner-Johnson), but Detroit obviously has a ton of needs on that side, particularly when it comes…

The 2024 NFL Combine officially kicks off on Sunday, February 25, but we won’t see the prospects in action until the on-field drills are televised on Thursday, February 29. Our coverage of this year’s event is underway, as we will be publishing a series of articles previewing each position group and taking you right up…

After a nice career as an undrafted free agent (four seasons with the Lions and then a handful of games with the Cardinals, Dolphins, and Saints in 2019), fan favorite Zach Zenner left the game in 2019 but returned in a different way off the field. Last time we saw him, Zenner was released right…

Ever since Brad Holmes’ arrival in Detroit as general manager, he’s made a habit of nailing each NFL Draft class, and 2023 could turn out to be his best yet. Despite all of the criticisms thrown at him following his first few picks last year, Holmes has stuck to his process every step of the…

The 2024 NFL Combine begins on Sunday, February 25, with prospects arriving alongside their positional groups over the next few days. During their time in Indianapolis, players will go through orientation, receive medical checks, meet with NFL teams, and take the podium to answer questions from the media. Then, on Thursday, February 29, the league…

If you’re not familiar with how the Detroit Lions roundup works, each week we collect data from the latest expert mock drafts published over the last seven days and compile them (with links to the original pieces) in one easy-to-access article. In addition to providing Lions fans with the names of prospects being paired with…

During the Detroit Lions’ playoff win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, fans flooded Frank Ragnow’s “Rags Remembered” foundation with donations. Ragnow showed tremendous spirit and resiliency in that game, playing through a knee and ankle injury on top of the laundry list of other ailments he was going through. With the help of former teammate…

On Friday—five days after the Super Bowl—the contracts of seven different Detroit Lions players will automatically void. This was expected, as the Lions used 2024 as an automatically voiding year to help spread the cap hit of individual contracts across multiple years. (Note: If you want to see how a voided year works, check out…