The Detroit Lions could be getting an important piece of their offensive line back soon, as starting left guard Christian Mahogany has returned to practice, which starts his 21-day injury evaluation clock.

In Week 9 against the Vikings, Mahogany suffered a lower leg injury after his leg swung into a defender, forcing him from the game. While initially labeled a knee injury, in the coming days, coach Dan Campbell acknowledged that Mahogany suffered a broken bone, which would give him a chance to return this season.

“For what the injury is—it’s a broken bone—relative to injuries, that’s a good thing,”...

Another Detroit Lions player has won weekly honors from the NFL, but not one you’d normally think of. After his three-sack performance against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night, Al-Quadin Muhammad has been named NFC Defensive Player of the Year.

It’s the fourth time a Lions player has been named Player of the Week, with Muhammad joining Jahmyr Gibbs (Weeks 10 and 12) and Jared Goff (Week 2). It’s the first time a Lions player has won NFC Defensive Player of the Week since Brian Branch in Week 6 of the 2024 season.

Muhammad, at 30 years old, is in...

Each week, SB Nation tracks NFL fans’ confidence levels of their favorite teams with their Reacts Surveys posted on their team websites. For Pride of Detroit, we are tasked with gauging Detroit Lions fans’ confidence in the team heading into each game.

Through the Lions’ first ten games, we’ve seen some expected fluctuations, as well as a few dramatic ones. But the last month has seen a lot of pessimistic voting as the fan base works through frustrations with expectations. Let’s take a quick look at how things have shaken out this season:

Entering the 2025 season: 94%
After Week...

On Tuesday, the Indianapolis Colts signed quarterback Philip Rivers, who had been in retirement for five years and was a semifinalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame for the 2026 class. The 44-year-old quarterback could very well be the reason the Colts—at 8-5 but without starter Daniel Jones for the rest of the season—make the playoffs and potentially a Super Bowl run. It’s an incredible story, and almost seems too ridiculous to be true.

So let’s live in the ridiculous for a minute. Obviously, the Detroit Lions nearly had their own out-of-retirement story, with center Frank Ragnow returning to...

So we meet again, Matthew Stafford. The former Detroit Lions starting quarterback faces his former team for the fourth time in five years in Week 15. In the first matchup back in 2021, the Los Angeles Rams won 28-19, but since then, Stafford hasn’t defeated his former team. The Lions beat the Rams in the 2023 playoffs and in the 2024 season opener.

This season, the matchup has high stakes, as the Lions’ playoff chances are on the line, while the Rams fight to win their division. The Lions can still make the playoffs with a loss to the Rams,...

The Detroit Lions’ 2025 coaching staff is already starting to get picked apart.

According to a report from Dave Birkett, Lions tight ends coach Tyler Roehl is being hired as the next offensive coordinator for Iowa State. The team has not yet announced the hire.

Roehl is just a year removed from being the Cyclones’ assistant head coach/running backs coach, but he jumped at the opportunity to join Dan Campbell’s staff in the NFL when the position came open following Steve Heiden departure to become the New York Jets’ offensive line coach.

“I was really happy at Iowa State. I...

The Detroit Lions announced on Tuesday that they have re-signed cornerback Arthur Maulet to the 53-man roster and waived tight end Ross Dwelley to make room for him.

Maulet signed to the Lions’ practice squad back in early October, and when the injury bug hit at cornerback, he got some significant playing time. Most notably, he was the team’s nickelback in the “Legion of Whom” win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In that game, he tallied five tackles and this key interception:

Maulet would go on to play nickel for Detroit for three more games before the Lions got back...

The Detroit Lions (8-5) got back in the win column, convincingly beating a hot Dallas Cowboys team by two touchdowns. But was that enough to sway voters to put the Lions back inside their top-10 rankings?

Let’s take a look at how things shook out in this week’s power rankings.

The Ringer: 5 (Previous rank: 6)

From Diante Lee:

Detroit’s offense is finding last year’s heights again, having scored 102 points in the past three weeks in spite of injuries and attrition. We should be celebrating this major step forward and forecasting what this unit can do in...

It’s not hyperbole to say the Detroit Lions saved their season with a Thursday night win over the Dallas Cowboys. Had they lost that game, their only likely path to the postseason would be to finish the year going 4-0 against a moderately tough schedule. Instead, the Lions have a little wiggle room. Detroit can likely finish the year 3-1 and still make the playoffs—provided that loss doesn’t come against the Chicago Bears.

But just how likely is it for Detroit to accomplish that and make their third-straight postseason? Let’s take a look at some playoff prediction models, and see...

On Monday, Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell showed some reservations about playing rookie guard Miles Frazier this week after the 2025 fifth-round pick got his first NFL action last week against the Dallas Cowboys. However, during Campbell’s weekly radio appearance on Tuesday, he seemed to suggest the Lions will continue to the guard rotation this week—between Frazier and Trystan Colon—against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.

“I’d like to play Frazier a little bit again, but I like Colon,” Campbell said. “There’s things that can be cleaned up, but Colon did some good things, too.”

Last week against the Cowboys,...

The exciting Detroit Lions victory over the Dallas Cowboys this past week drew the highest number of viewers since Prime Video began hosting “Thursday Night Football.”

The matchup drew a record-setting 19.39 million viewers—the highest since Prime Video took over TNF in 2022. To put that in perspective, the average Thursday night game draws 15.2 million viewers.

Thursday’s audience broke the previous record set by NFC North rival the Green Bay Packer against the Washington Commanders this past September—17.76 million viewers watched that game.

Per Awfulannouncing.com, Prime Video has upped its audience each year, starting at an average 9.58 million...

The Detroit Lions’ Christmas game against the Minnesota Vikings is still a few weeks away, but the team already teased a special uniform choice for the nationally-televised game on Netflix. Over on Instagram, the Lions posted a series of photos, asking viewers to “unwrap an early Christmas present.”

When you scroll through the final photo, it reveals Penei Sewell decked out in Detroit’s black, “Motor City Muscle” uniforms. And if there was any doubt about that being the reveal, the Lions essentially confirmed in the comment section that they will, indeed, be wearing those black uniforms. Fans are continuing to...