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Each Saturday during the college football season, we’ll highlight five prospects with locally televised matchups who could be a fit for the Detroit Lions in the 2023 NFL Draft, based on projected needs. The list aims to highlight early-, mid- and late-round prospects. This will give you a chance to watch the players performing live,

Allen Park — James Mitchell was never supposed to be here. Naturally, it’s been an emotionally charged month for the Detroit Lions’ rookie tight end. A fifth-round pick in this past year’s NFL Draft, Mitchell, 23, suffered a season-ending knee injury in his final year at Virginia Tech and had his rookie training camp experience

Allen Park — The Detroit Lions ruled out five players for Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys, including starters DJ Chark and Charles Harris, while listing several others as questionable, most notably running back D’Andre Swift, wide receiver Josh Reynolds and defensive lineman John Cominsky. In addition to Chark (ankle) and Harris (groin), the Lions

Allen Park — We all understand only one stat matters in football — a team’s record. No matter how many points you score or how many yards you allow, everything boils down to whether it’s good enough to win consistently. And for the 2022 Detroit Lions, five games into the season, it definitely hasn’t been

Nolan Bianchi, John Niyo, Justin Rogers and Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News offer predictions for Sunday’s Lions-Cowboys game at AT&T Stadium (1 p.m., CBS/97.1). ▶ Nolan Bianchi: The Lions can set a powerful tone for the rest of their season by leaving Dallas with a win and strong defensive performance on Sunday. But whether

Allen Park — The arrival of the bye week was welcomed by the Detroit Lions with open arms, viewed as ideal timing to help a banged-up roster get healthy. But while a couple of those injured players are trending toward playing Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys, the status of others has remained stagnant or seemingly

Allen Park — It goes without saying the Lions will have to be better defensively if they want to get on track coming out of the team’s bye. But it also remains clear any hope for success is best placed on an offense that’s proved it can be one of the league’s most potent prior

Allen Park — In the 21 months since Dave Fipp was hired to serve as the Lions’ special teams coordinator, the team has employed 11 kickers, if you include his initial weeks on the job, after Matt Prater’s contract expired. And although that carousel has continued to spin, Fipp isn’t second-guessing any step of the

Allen Park — Tracy Walker thought he had been shot. At least that’s what it felt like when the Lions safety collapsed to the ground a fraction of a second after the ball was snapped in the team’s Week 3 game in Minnesota last month. But as he glanced up at the video board replay

Allen Park — Amani Oruwariye came into this season with lofty expectations, both externally and for himself, but five weeks into the 2022 campaign he found himself in the most unfamiliar of situations — benched for poor performance. Fresh off the demotion, the Lions cornerback spent his bye week resetting mentally, returning with the mindset

Allen Park — We’ll give you the good Lions injury news first. Running back D’Andre Swift was a participant at practice on Wednesday and told the media afterward he was “pushing to” play this weekend in Dallas. Swift started his third NFL season by averaging 8.6 yards per carry before injuries took him out of

The Detroit News Justin Rogers, Nolan Bianchi, John Niyo and Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News offer their predictions for Week 7 of the NFL season. All picks made against the spread. Lions +7 at Cowboys Rogers: Lions Bianchi: Cowboys Niyo: Cowboys Wojo: Cowboys Saints +1.5 at Cardinals Rogers: Saints Bianchi: Cardinals Niyo: Cardinals Wojo: Cardinals Browns +6.5 at Ravens Rogers: Browns Bianchi: Browns Niyo: Ravens Wojo: Ravens (best

Allen Park — After a bye-week break, we’re back with another Detroit Lions mailbag. ▶ Question: Pretty tough ask, but on the surface, what do you think other rebuilding teams have done that has contributed to ahead-of-schedule success that the Lions have not? — @Gregss_ ▶ Answer: First, let’s establish parameters. Let’s put all the

Allen Park — Trying to right a sinking ship, the Detroit Lions are making more changes coming out of the bye. Not surprisingly, coach Dan Campbell isn’t willing to share any of the schematic or personnel adjustments ahead of Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys, but the coach revealed a key change to the team’s

Allen Park — Following a disappointing rookie season, the Detroit Lions had high hopes for second-year defensive tackle Levi Onwuzurike. Instead, the reaggravation of a back injury suffered in the early days of training camp will end his season. Lions coach Dan Campbell announced Monday that Onwuzurike had back surgery last week, which will put

Each Saturday during the college football season, we’ll highlight five prospects with locally televised matchups who could be a fit for the Detroit Lions in the 2023 NFL Draft, based on projected needs. The list aims to highlight early-, mid- and late-round prospects. This will give you a chance to watch the players performing live,