Pride of Detroit

Over the weekend, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes made a big signing when they brought in the NFL’s interception leader Eagles defensive back C.J. Gardner Johnson. Gardner-Johnson was a big swing from the Lions and is a guy that is a day one starter and really shores up several areas for this team. He…

The Detroit Lions have been taking all kinds of swings in free agency this month. They’ve added three very good secondary pieces, the best running back on the market and they even added a long snapper. They did all of this on top of returning some key pieces from last year’s team.

NFL free agency is a hard thing for fans to grasp, but it’s not something you can visually see. To the fan, free agency is just a flurry of tweets and contract terms flying off the board. Behind the scenes, it’s a chaotic frenzy of texts and calls between teams and player agents.

The Detroit Lions have made a flurry of moves in the first week of free agency, and by most accounts, they’ve done a pretty darn good job filling the most pressing needs on the team. Fans are excited about some of the splash free agency signings, but Detroit also made some important moves by retaining…

A lot can happen in 10 days. The NFL Combine was happening not too long ago and the Detroit Lions said all the things they could say to make you think that they were going to head into free agency with a quest to be purposefully quiet. My biggest concern for this team was that…

Worries about what the Detroit Lions would or would not spend in NFL free agency were put to bed when the team swooped in on their third defensive back signing, bringing in former Philadelphia Eagle C.J. Gardner-Johnson. By that point, Detroit had completely overhauled their cornerback corps, which enters 2023 in a radically different spot…

In the past week, the Detroit Lions have overhauled their cornerback room, signing Emmanuel Moseley, Cameron Sutton and C.J. Gardner-Johnson to free agency deals. But with additions come subtractions, and the Lions lost one key player of their secondary to free agency on Monday night. Cornerback Mike Hughes officially signed a two-year deal with the…

A growing number of people think the Detroit Lions have what it takes to make it to the Super Bowl, including one NFL Network analyst. The Good Morning Football crew, as they often do, posed a question to the group: Based on this offseason and free agency so far, which team do you think has…

New Detroit Lions cornerback C.J. Gardner-Johnson came ever so close to getting a ring just over a month ago. As a key part of the Philadelphia Eagles defense—he led the NFL with six interceptions in 2022—Gardner-Johnson found himself in the title game and just a few plays short of lifting the Lombardi Trophy.

After a busy first week of free agency, nobody was expecting any kind of late news to break late Sunday night, right? Wrong. Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes had no plans for a quiet evening—signing former defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson to a one-year contract worth up to $8 million.

Snuck right after Sunday’s bombshell that the Detroit Lions have agreed to terms with defensive back Chauncey Gardner-Johnson was a somewhat significant special teams move made by the team. According to several reports, the Lions are signing long snapper Jake McQuaide to a one-year deal worth $1.3 million, including a $152,500 signing bonus.

In order to make some of the aggressive moves the Detroit Lions have made in free agency, they needed to free up some cap space. First, they created $10 million in cap space by releasing veteran defensive tackle Michael Brockers. Then they asked Charles Harris to take a $3 million pay cut. Now, another player…

What a difference a week makes. Before free agency kicked off, the Detroit Lions were looking at a massive lack of talent in their defensive secondary. Of the cornerbacks under contract, only two of them—Jeff Okudah and Jerry Jacobs—had starting experience. The safety group was looking stronger thanks to a breakout debut from Kerby Joseph,…

The Detroit Lions are adding even more firepower to their secondary. After signing both Emmanuel Moseley and Cameron Sutton to bolster the cornerback room in free agency, the Lions are reportedly adding one of the bigger free agency pieces. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Lions are signing former Eagles defensive C.J. Gardner-Johnson to a…

When we last left Graham Glasgow, he was leaving the Detroit Lions under frustrating circumstances. His level of play was still high, but the Lions—under abrasive head coach Matt Patricia—were not making Glasgow feel wanted. Not only did the Lions utilize an unorthodox guard rotation that saw Glasgow in and out of the lineup, but…

Prior to NFL free agency beginning, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes had everyone thinking that things would largely be quiet once again coming out of Allen Park. And if you were going off of how what he was saying and how he operated the last two off-seasons—I would have understood that thought process. However,…

Sometimes the universe works in a beautiful way. One of the biggest signings the Detroit Lions made in the opening week of free agency was former Chicago Bears running back David Montgomery. He replaces the well-loved Jamaal Williams, and while it will be understandably tough for some fans to move on from Williams, it’s easy…

Justin Rogers at the Detroit News reported yesterday on the extra money earned by Lions players from the NFL’s “performance based pool” (PBP) of money in the current 2020 collective bargaining agreement (CBA). In his article, Rogers listed the ten Detroit Lions players who received the most from the team’s PBP money (out of all…

Now that the NFL Combine has concluded and NFL free agency is in full swing, general manager Brad Holmes and the Detroit Lions have some holes to fill and some important decisions to make. One of those holes is at cornerback, where the Lions have had a ton of struggles the past couple of years.

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…