Ndamukong Suh earned his first ring in 2021. Matthew Stafford won a championship last February. Now, Darius Slay is two wins away from joining his former Detroit Lions teammates on the list of Super Bowl champions. Slay is the most prominent of more than a dozen ex-Lions still left in the NFL playoffs after his
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The Detroit Lions are losing a key member of their front office. Lions director of college scouting Dave Sears is leaving the organization to become assistant general manager of the Arizona Cardinals, a source told the Free Press. NFL Network first reported the news. Sears joined the Lions in 2007 and served a variety of
Allen Park — The Detroit Lions were able to retain offensive coordinator Ben Johnson but will be losing a key piece of the front office this offseason. A little more than three months before the 2023 NFL Draft, the Lions will be in need of a new college scouting director. Dave Sears, who has served
The free agent negotiating period opens in a little over seven weeks, but the Detroit Lions will be active trying to re-sign some of their own free agents well before then. Most of the Lions’ 15 unrestricted free agents have expressed a desire publicly to return to Detroit, and Lions general manager Brad Holmes said
With the Detroit Lions’ 2022 season in the books, it’s time to hand out our annual awards. ▶ Offensive player of the year: Wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown With all proper respect due to Jamaal Williams’ 17-touchdown season, this decision came down to St. Brown and quarterback Jared Goff. And while it’s always easiest to go
Jerry Green | Special to The Detroit News The telephone on the kitchen wall snapped me from my reverie. I was planning a writing agenda for the Lions’ training camp at Cranbrook. I had earned a battlefield commission. Henceforth, I would be the pro football writer for The Detroit News. I was on vacation, and
Taylor Decker had what he considered the best season of his career in 2022. The Detroit Lions left tackle was voted a Pro Bowl alternate for the first time in his seven NFL seasons. He did not miss an offensive snap while playing all 17 games. He was a leader on one of the best
Bloomfield Hills — For the longest time, reporter Jerry Green had been quietly driven by the symmetry of matching childhood idol Joe DiMaggio. But in the end, it was another professional sports icon, quarterback Tom Brady, who helped convince Green it was OK to step away. This year, for the first time since the Super
The Detroit Lions have not played an international game in nearly a decade. If that streak ends this fall, they will face one of the marquee teams on their 2023 schedule in Germany. The NFL announced “home” teams for its five international games in 2023, and the only one on the Lions’ schedule is the
Apple Podcasts | Spotify • Hosts: Shawn Windsor (@shawnwindsor) and Carlos Monarrez (@cmonarrez) • Producer: Andrew Hammond • Editor: Robin Chan • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado, Kirkland Crawford • Email: swindsor@freepress.com On this episode: This week, the guys trade their views on human nature while talking about Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson’s decision to stay with the team. Later, Carlos & Shawn rank where each of Detroit’s
Free Press sports columnists Carlos Monarrez and Shawn Windsor debate about almost everything, especially for their podcast, “Free Press Sports with Carlos & Shawn.” They’ve seen a lot of Detroit sports in recent years, which means they’ve seen … a lot of rebuilding. Here, the guys discuss what, if anything, fans around here have to
The Detroit Lions got their biggest January win in years Tuesday when Ben Johnson informed the team he would be returning for a second season as offensive coordinator. Johnson felt like there was unfinished business with a team on the cusp of the playoffs, and his return gives the Lions important continuity with one of
The Detroit Lions won’t be losing their offensive coordinator this offseason, but there’s still a chance they could have someone new running their defense in 2023. The Arizona Cardinals will interview Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn for their head coaching vacancy on Saturday, NFL Network reported Wednesday. Glenn interviewed for the New Orleans Saints and
Is this really happening? Are the Detroit Lions really, finally, at long last finding … good fortune? Have the football gods grown tired of laughing at Detroit? Have they stopped smiling long enough at their perennial NFL favorites — in Green Bay, Pittsburgh and wherever Tom Brady plays — to wink at the Lions? It
Allen Park — Amon-Ra St. Brown can famously list off the 16 wide receivers selected before him in the 2021 draft. It’s been an unending source of motivation for the Detroit Lions wideout after sliding to the third day, fourth round and No. 112 overall pick that year. But he’s since established himself as one
Even more than a week after they were eliminated less than an hour before their season finale began, the Detroit Lions are riding high, with some pundits even declaring the path to the NFC North title is “going through Detroit for the next five years,” and others imagining a world in which the Lions made
Dan Campbell wasn’t coaching on the sidelines during the NFL’s wild-card weekend. Instead, he was coaching from his couch. And as a guest on ESPN’s simulcast of the Dallas-Tampa Bay playoff dud Monday night, the Lions’ head coach admitted to the hosts, Peyton and Eli Manning, just how “frustrating” it is to sit and watch
Allen Park — Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson is sticking with the team for next season, barring unforeseen circumstances, according to a team source familiar with the negotiations. Johnson had been a hot candidate for a handful of the league’s head coaching vacancies, interviewing with the Houston Texans and Indianapolis Colts. But ahead of
For Ben Johnson, being a head coach can wait. He has unfinished business in Detroit. Johnson, the Detroit Lions‘ first-year offensive coordinator, informed the team today he plans to return for the 2023 season, a person familiar with his decision told the Free Press. NFL Network first reported the news. Johnson interviewed virtually with three
The Detroit Lions look like they’ll keep an all-important piece to their coaching staff in Ben Johnson. The story of the 2022 Detroit Lions should begin and end with offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, who took the team to new heights. Nobody imagined the Lions would be within a game of the postseason, but that’s exactly what