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Every year, general managers and coaches from across the league speak to the media at the NFL Combine, but with the event canceled this year, the Detroit Lions made general manager Brad Holmes available to the local media Tuesday morning via Zoom. Holmes discussed a variety of topics but made a point to address the

Last Tuesday, the window opened up for NFL teams to use the franchise tag on one of their players for the 2021 season. For the Detroit Lions, the most logical use of the tag is on star wide receiver Kenny Golladay, who is headed for free agency if he cannot come to an agreement with

“Most Valuable Player” is a term whose definition is hotly debated every time it’s thrown around. For some, they take it literally, meaning the player that added the most value to their team or the league. In football, that almost always places the award in the hands of the quarterback. However, some argue that MVP

Way back in December, before the Detroit Lions traded Matthew Stafford, the belief among most Lions fans was that it was time for the Lions to draft a new quarterback in 2021. Even if it was a guy that the Lions planned to just sit on the bench for a while to develop, it seemed

On Monday, Peter King of NBC Sports gave further confirmation that the NFL is almost certainly heading towards a 17-game season starting in 2021. Per King, both TV partners and schedule makers are currently working under the assumption the extra game will be added this year. Despite the extra week of games, the NFL does

Giving back to the community is nothing new for former Detroit Lions star Herman Moore, but now he working to help in this particular time of need. As heard through Crain’s Nick Manes, a great tech and finance reporter in Metro Detroit btw, Moore is partnering with web development company three legged stool to create

Last week, Chris Spielman, the Detroit Lions’ special assistant to owner Sheila Ford Hamp and team president Rod Wood, told local radio station 97.1 The Ticket that he believed the team needs to beef up their defensive line. The Lions may want to focus that effort on the defensive interior. With both Danny Shelton and

As the start of the official tampering period on March 15 approaches, Detroit Lions fans will finally get a better look at the team we will be watching in the fall. Free agent signings in March will give us an idea of team needs heading into the draft in April, and the types of players

Despite the Detroit Lions’ highly disappointing 2020 season, there were a lot of things to like about their offense. The offensive line took a big step towards being a good—if not, great—unit. Their tight end took the Year 2 jump many were hoping for. And the Lions may have finally added the play-making running back

In Peter King’s most recent Football Morning in America article, he reported some new details on the NFL potentially adding a 17th game to the 2021 schedule, calling the likelihood of an extra game being added “highly likely”. King notes that, if a 17th game is added, the league calendar would be pushed back a

So many players, so few picks. The Detroit Lions are (likely) entering a rebuild phase, and that means the coming years will be focused on stockpiling assets, both draft picks and young talent. The Lions have the valuable seventh overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, and there are plenty of directions they could go.

On Saturday, we debuted a new weekly show intended to let Detroit Lions fans congregate and have a conversation about all things football. At 10:30 a.m. ET, we created a conference room in the new iOS app Locker Room, which allows us to hold a video chat with fans. For just under an hour, myself,

For decades, NFL teams have built their rosters by investing significant capital in players closest to the ball, and in turn, placing a reduced value on players farther away from it. This ideology matched scheme concepts at the time, where executing a bruising offense was valued over the passing game. Currently, the NFL is very

Whether Brad Holmes wants to admit it or not, the Detroit Lions are in rebuild mode, which means they’ve got a lot of holes to patch up and it’ll be at least a couple years before we’re talking about contending. Many would love for the Lions to go after their next franchise QB at seventh

With no NFL Combine in 2021, late February has become a bit of a dead news period for the league. And with free agency still a few weeks away, lots of writers have turned their attention to mock drafts—including six of the Lions beat writers. Mock drafts in general shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but

When the Detroit Lions were tasked with finding a new team for Matthew Stafford, the talk about who the Lions should replace him with immediately yielded a variety of draft prospects. When it was announced the Lions had struck a deal with the Los Angeles Rams, a trade that would net Detroit a haul of

Just yesterday, Mel Kiper updated his mock draft projection over at the Worldwide Leader, assigning an athletic linebacker to the Detroit Lions at the twelfth overall pick after trading down with the San Francisco 49ers. The hypothetical move passes on taking Ohio State’s Justin Fields (the Niners’ selection), but do the rest of the experts

This week we’re introducing a new way for you to connect and interact with the Pride of Detroit community. Starting on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. ET, we’re kicking off a weekly show in which you can participate, providing both questions for our panel and actually join our panel to give your thoughts and opinions live

Earlier in the week, we looked at some of the free agents on the market at the offensive line position. The Detroit Lions could use a little depth there, but by the team’s own admission, the interior offensive line has a pretty good set of players. Jonah Jackson had a promising rookie season. Frank Ragnow

First things first, if you’re unfamiliar with our roundtable or how it works, check out our archive and some of our recent discussions from seasons past: After ownership completed their general manager and head coaching search, this new Detroit Lions regime wasted no time getting to work. In a move that will unquestionably define Brad