Pride of Detroit

The Detroit Lions announced they have signed nickel corner, Rachad Wildgoose ahead of their third and final preseason game of the 2024 offseason. Wildgoose played his college football at Wisconsin and was originally drafted in the sixth round of the 2021 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills. He was released at cutdowns and signed to…

When Giovanni Manu—the Detroit Lions’ fourth-round pick in 2024—first hit the practice field in training camp, it was about as rough as you could expect for a rookie. None of that was a surprise, mind you, as Manu was billed from the moment Detroit drafted him as a long-term project. Take this quote from general…

Coming off an NFC Championship game appearance in 2023, the Detroit Lions are now considered a Super Bowl contender heading into 2024. With their additions in free agency and the NFL Draft, it’s easy to see why. They now have the best offensive line in the NFL, their secondary saw a massive but necessary reshuffle…

Terminology in the NFL can be very team-specific, which can often lead to confusion when things aren’t properly explained to people outside the organization, including both media and fans. One example of this is the current Detroit Lions regime’s use of the SAM linebacker. The Lions use this role differently than a traditional 43 SAM…

The Detroit Lions are starting to make decisions on which players they plan on keeping on their 53-man roster, and which position battles are still up for grabs. Coach Dan Campbell estimates the Lions have about five or six spots still being battled for, including at reserve quarterback, where Hendon Hooker and Nate Sudfeld have…

The Detroit Lions have signed linebacker Joel Iyiegbuniwe, the team announced on Tuesday. Iyiegbuniwe is the third linebacker the Lions have signed in the past 10 days, joining Abraham Beauplan and Ty Summers. Malik Jefferson—who himself was added just three weeks ago—suffered a finger injury during Saturday’s preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs, and…

With just two preseason games under his belt, rookie Sione Vaki is setting himself apart in a pretty big way. Athlon Sports’ Doug Farrar named the rookie one of the top “secret superstars” emerging from the NFL preseason. Vaki, drafted by the Detroit Lions in the fourth round, was both a safety and a running…

We’re now officially just a week away from NFL roster cuts, and that means there are some huge decisions on the horizon for the Detroit Lions. Their defensive roster has changed dramatically in a single offseason, but as they fine-tune that side of the ball, there are tough choices ahead. With the revamped secondary, will…

Through two weeks of the preseason, the Detroit Lions have rested nearly all of their starters. We saw something similar last year when the Lions ramped up the intensity for joint practices with their first-team offense and defense, and then sat them out for their preseason games. But this year the Lions only had the…

On Saturday, the Detroit Lions got their first win of the 2024 preseason against the Kansas City Chiefs, 24-23. As we’ll do every week throughout the season for this Lions team, we have some data we can comb through courtesy of Pro Football Focus that better helps us understand the football the Lions have played…

Preseason Game 2 for the Detroit Lions helped clarify much of the expanded roster. Wide receivers made plays, defensive players sought to separate themselves from each other, and the whole operation benefited from having a few series against genuine NFL starters when the starters for Kansas City were in the game. All in all a…

For so long in the history of the Detroit Lions, having a reliable kicker was almost an afterthought. For many of those years, there were often bigger fish to fry. Kickers like Jason Hanson and Matt Prater were the epitome of consistency, and you never know how good you have it until you have to…

After ignoring drafting a wide receiver in the 2024 NFL Draft, and only re-signing Donovan Peoples-Jones in free agency, the Detroit Lions are still in limbo of what is going on at the wide receiver position. You have the locks on the roster of Amon Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, and Kalif Raymond, but the…

Two preseason games are in the books for the Detroit Lions, and we are still left with many questions for the fast-approaching regular season. We often enter training camp with rough ideas of how the roster battles will play out, but nothing is set in stone until the inevitable cutdown day arrives. Until then, plenty…

The Detroit Lions’ second preseason game went much better than the first, as they walked away 24-23 winners over the Kansas City Chiefs. But outcome has little importance in the preseason game. What matters is player evaluation and development. While it’s hard to know where each player stands in the mind of the coaching staff,…

The Detroit Lions second exhibition of the 2024 preseason is behind us and it’s time to check in on the players who helped or hurt their chances of making the roster. The Kansas City Chiefs played their starters in the first half, while the Lions rested theirs, presenting a unique challenge for the Lions’ reserves,…

As the NFL preseason moves forward, more and more rookies and players with little experience get their chance to prove they can stick in the league. In this matchup between the Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs, there was a lot to unpack from the performance of the Motor City’s freshmen class.

The Detroit Lions have a wide receiver problem. It’s mostly a bad receiver problem, but after Saturday’s preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs, they also have a good problem. The bad problem is they’re severely lacking outside receivers. They pretty much have Jameson Williams and not much else. Amon-Ra St. Brown can play on…

The Detroit Lions provided more fireworks in their second preseason game, emerging from their tilt with the Kansas City Chiefs with a last-second victory. Growth is the name of the game for the Lions in these preseason games. There were plenty of positives for Detroit, but also points of improvement as the regular season fast…

It’s preseason Week 2! And while that doesn’t carry the excitement of Week 1, and it’s nowhere near the thrill of the regular season, it does represent one game closer to opening weekend. This week the Detroit Lions take on the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs. It’s a bit of an overstatement to say…