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The 2024 NFL Draft is upon us, making it an excellent time for a refresher on where the Detroit Lions roster sits, here’s a quick breakdown of the team’s depth chart before the big event. Of note, teams’ rosters are expanded to 90 players during the offseason, and currently, the Lions have 65 players under…

As we inch closer and closer to the 2024 NFL Draft, there’s only one certainty for the Detroit Lions: uncertainty. No one can predict which prospects might be sitting there for the taking at pick 29, and that great unknown sets us up for today’s discussion about a player Detroit cannot afford to pass up…

Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes has not shied away from trading up or down in the NFL Draft. Will he do the same with the 29th overall selection in the 2024 NFL Draft? Holmes has made multiple trades throughout his draft career. In 2021, he traded up for linebacker Derrick Barnes in the fourth…

With the 2024 NFL Draft just days away, one of the hot-button topics surrounding the Detroit Lions is whether they will stay put and pick at No. 29 or make a trade. Lions general manager Brad Holmes is aggressive in acquiring players, and he has used his available trade capital to make several draft day…

After heavily focusing on the defense in my earlier articles, it’s time to flip the script and take a look at the offensive options again. Outside of the offensive line, the biggest need for the Detroit Lions on offense is at wide receiver. The Lions already have wide receivers Amon Ra St. Brown and Jameson…

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…

With just a few days until the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit, analysts—both professional and amateur—are wrapping up their evaluations of this year’s class of players. The NFL Draft has become such a behemoth that nearly every football fan always has strong opinions on just about every prospect.

The discourse surrounding Iowa cornerback Cooper DeJean ahead of the 2024 NFL draft in Detroit has been fascinating, and to some extent—very unique. Erik Schlitt, managing editor of Pride of Detroit as well as the co-host of the Detroit Lions Breakdown Podcast, joined myself and Meko Scott to discuss whether or not DeJean would make…

The second round of the Pride of Detroit Community Mock is underway! And while most of the second round will just involve announcing all of the picks leading up to the Detroit Lions’ 61st overall selection in one big heap, we decided to make a rare exception for Pick 33. The Carolina Panthers hold the…

Another really interesting prospect in this year’s 2024 NFL Draft class is University of Alabama cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry. In some ways, McKinstry’s college football arc can be compared to former Louisiana State University and current Houston Texans cornerback Derek Stingley Jr’s. Both started as true freshman on elite SEC defenses, which is a massive accomplishment…

Detroit Lions owner Sheila Hamp was one of the first people to take the stage on Thursday night at the team’s uniform release event at Ford Field. Her entrance was showered with chants of her name from the 5,000 season ticket holders, Lions, and Ford employees in attendance. The Lions owner took the opportunity to…

We’ve reached the end of the first round in our 2024 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft (don’t worry, a second round is coming). As Super Bowl champs, the Kansas City Chiefs will close out the opening round, hoping to pull off the difficult three-peat. It’s been an eventful offseason for the Chiefs, losing L’Jarius…

The 2024 NFL Draft may be right around the corner, but the topic of the week is still the new Detroit Lions jersey release from Thursday. We already have plenty of content out there ranging from a detailed list of the Lions’ new uniforms, a “hot or not” breakdown of the new jerseys, player reactions,…

The San Francisco 49ers are finally on the clock in our 2024 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft with the 31st pick. Last year, the 49ers had a dominant season, culminating with a win in the [GAME REDACTED] but a disappointing loss in the Super Bowl to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.

The way Detroit Lions safety Kerby Joseph was bouncing around the stage on uniform reveal night, you’d never know that he was recovering from offseason surgery. But in an interview shortly after the event wrapped, Joseph spoke about an offseason procedure he had on his hip, dating back to an injury he suffered all the…

Earlier in April, the NFL sent a memo to teams permitting them to now have a third alternate helmet in their uniform repertoire. For teams that were going under a uniform change in 2024, they could add that third option as soon as this year. For everyone else, the third helmet could debut in 2025.

In front of over 5,000 hyped-up Detroit Lions fans on Thursday night, the team revealed their new uniforms for 2024 and beyond. While there weren’t a ton of drastic changes, the Lions—in my opinion—did a great job blending the past with a modern look. But they didn’t do anything overly dramatic to take away the…

Social media was abuzz on Thursday night, as the world reacted to the Detroit Lions’ 2024 uniform reveal. The event at Ford Field was well-produced, and the general reaction was that the uniforms delivered. While the night was certainly punctuated with the return of the black uniforms, the adjustments made to Detroit’s white and blue…

The new uniforms for the Detroit Lions leaked before lunch on Thursday, April 18, just hours before they were due to be unveiled to special guests and media at Ford Field. After spending some time looking over two-dimensional images of the uniforms for the past hour or so, it’s time to decide if these new…

On Thursday, thousands of Detroit Lions fans will descend upon Campus Martius in downtown Detroit to see the 2024 NFL Draft and who the Lions may select with the 29th overall pick. But given that first-round talent could be gone by the time the Detroit is on the clock, Lions general manager Brad Holmes did…