The United Football League kicks off its second season this spring following the merger between the XFL and USFL. The UFL, for as long as it lasts, should serve as a proving ground for football players who haven’t quite made the cut in the NFL. The Detroit Lions learned just how valuable some spring football
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NFL Media’s Daniel Jeremiah released his second mock draft of this draft season. His mocks and insight are always intriguing because he mixes his thoughts on teams with what he’s hearing in the league. In this case, he has the Lions adding depth, if not a potential starter up front. With the 28th pick, the
The 2025 NFL Combine kicks off in the final week of February and we are exploring each position group ahead of the big event. So far, we have previewed quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends the Detroit Lions should be scouting, and in this article, we take a look at the offensive tackle…
Lions New Lions OC John Morton told reporters that his previous experience with QB Jared Goff will help him as he takes over for Ben Johnson and installs the team’s offense for 2025. “I think it’s big because it all starts with the quarterback,” Morton told Fox 2 Detroit’s Dan Miller. “Just kind of knowing
The Detroit Lions’ season may have ended in disappointing fashion, but they have been given some reason to be excited for 2025 already. Star pass rusher Aidan Hutchinson shared video Monday showing him running at something close to full speed. The video comes roughly four months after Hutchinson suffered a broken left leg in a
We are just about three weeks away from a new league calendar, free agency blossoming before our eyes. Any good evaluation of free agency must begin internally—with the pieces you know and trust—before anything else can come on down. The Detroit Lions have a good number of pieces set for the market, and the question…
“Gotta blast,” Hutchinson captioned the Instagram post. Hutchinson, 24, looked like the frontrunner for the AP Defensive Player of the Year Award before sustaining the injury in the Week 6 road win over the Dallas Cowboys. Hutchinson tallied a then league-leading 7.5 sacks in five games, to go along with 19 tackles (12 solo) and
The Detroit Lions added former Stanford head coach David Shaw to a revamped coaching staff on Tuesday as their passing game coordinator. Shaw, 52, was a four-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year at Stanford from 2011-22. With a record of 96-54, he resigned as the winningest coach in Cardinal history. Joining head coach Dan Campbell’s
Meko Scott and I (Morgan Cannon) are back on the Pride of Detroit YouTube channel, discussing what to expect from the 2025 NFL Combine taking place in Indianapolis next week. We begin by setting the table a bit for the offseason, as we lay out some key dates to be aware of as we approach…
The 2025 NFL Combine is next week and we’ll get to have our first ideas of who the Detroit Lions will be looking at in terms of players and positions. For the next week, we’ll be going over some of the positions we suspect the Lions will have interest in and listing some of the
New Detroit Lions defensive coordinator, like most of the team’s coaching staff in 2024, was a hot commodity on the coaching carousel this offseason. Sheppard moved up from linebackers coach to coordinator, taking over for new Jets head coach Aaron Glenn. In his first public interview, conducted via Dan Miller and FOX2 in Detroit, Sheppard
With a week to go before the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine, the Detroit Lions have formally finalized their coaching staff for the coming season. The Lions updated coaching list includes several names not previously publicly reported. First, the full list from the Lions press release: Among the coaches new to Detroit are offensive coordinator John
The Detroit Lions announced on Tuesday the entirety of their 2025 coaching staff. Obviously, this year the Lions went through some pretty significant changes. Detroit lost both their offensive coordinator (Ben Johnson) and defensive coordinator (Aaron Glenn) to head coaching jobs, and both ended up taking a few Lions coaches with them.
The Detroit Lions officially announced the hiring of their new coordinators—John Morton as the offensive coordinator and Kelvin Sheppard as defensive coordinator—on January 30. It’s been nearly three weeks, and we had yet to hear from the coaches, but the two broke their silence this week in a pair of interviews with Fox 2 Detroit’s…