With the 2025 NFL regular season well in the rearview mirror and the Super Bowl the final remaining game until August, analysts are beginning to shift their focus toward the NFL Draft. On Monday, NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah released his first mock draft of the 2026 season, and as we saw with The Athletic’s Dane Brugler’s mock draft last week, some of his projections will change perspectives on prospects throughout the draft community.

Like Brugler, Jeremiah had the draft’s top two offensive tackles—Utah’s Spencer Fano and Miami’s Francis Mauigoa—selected in the top six picks and the top two edge rushers—Texas...

With 30 of 32 NFL teams now in the offseason, it’s a good time to review the Detroit Lions’ 2025 roster and how they performed, but also to look forward to 2026 and how the team may address each position.

We’ll kick off the series with quarterbacks, where the Lions find themselves in a perfectly fine position at starter, but some small questions at depth.

Lions 2025 recap: Quarterback

Jared Goff stats:

• 4,564 yards (second in NFL)
• 68.0% completion percentage (sixth)
• 7.9 yards per attempt (sixth)
• 105.5 passer rating (third)
• +0.13 EPA/dropback (fifth) -...

The NFL is a copycat league, and as the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks are the only two remaining teams left in the playoffs, you can already see people trying to figure out how to emulate their success. I always find this to be a particularly amusing game to play, because the difference between winning and losing in the playoffs is so narrow that we could just as easily be talking about two completely different teams had the tiniest of outcomes gone the other way.

It also assumes that these two teams possess the only proper way to team...

Whenever a team makes a change to its coaching staff, the front office will often tap into the new coach’s familiarity with the upcoming free agents they have coached over their careers. This offseason, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes will have a chance to do this with new offensive coordinator Drew Petzing and the 30+ players he’s familiar with who are set to become free agents in March.

Let’s take a look at the 2026 free agents whom Petzing has either directly coached or indirectly worked with over the last decade of his coaching career.

Quarterback

• Teddy...

The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks have booked their tickets to the Super Bowl. The Detroit Lions, meanwhile, are left wondering what it would take to be in their shoes.

After a 9-8 season in which the Lions barely sniffed the playoff picture, Detroit has a lot to envy from these two Super Bowl teams. It is also not difficult to envision the Lions in a similar situation. They have had an elite offense, they have had star players on defense—why did success not materialize like it did for Seattle or New England?

Today’s Question of the Day is:...

It’s time to determine the two teams in Super Bowl LX.

The 2025-26 NFL playoffs continue on Sunday with the NFC and AFC Championship games.

To kick things off, the Denver Broncos will host the New England Patriots in a battle of the AFC’s No. 1 and No. 2 seeds. The headline of the matchup is Broncos backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham, who will start the game after Bo Nix suffered a broken ankle late in the Divisional Round. It’s a fascinating position for Stidham, who has only started four games in seven years, but it’s not just about him. These...

The NFL playoff field is down to four teams, and by the end of the day, we’ll be down to the final two.

NFL Conference Championship Weekend kicks off Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. ET with the Denver Broncos hosting the New England Patriots. Both franchises have seemingly revived themselves after their long span of success was interrupted by some recent missteps. Mike Vrabel has the Patriots competitive again in just one season at the helm, while it’s been a three-year project for Sean Payton and the Broncos—taking a 5-12 team in 2022 to 14-3 and the AFC’s top seed...

A day after announcing he’s hanging up the pads, now former Detroit Lions offensive lineman Dan Skipper got to work starting a new career in coaching.

In a social media post on Thursday, Skipper announced his retirement from the NFL and his plans to switch to coaching. A day later, he was already helping coach at the 2026 East-West Shrine Bowl in Texas.

Fanatics View spoke to him down in Texas about what all went into his retirement decision.

“This year, had some health things that were really taking a toll,” he said. “I wasn’t able to move like I...

It’s no secret that the most popular offensive coordinator candidate for the Detroit Lions job was former Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel. It’s easy to understand, too. For a couple of years, he had one of the most innovative offenses in football, and given his history making speedsters All-Pro players, you could only imagine what he could do with weapons like Jahmyr Gibbs and Jameson Williams.

But the Lions chose Drew Petzing, and the McDaniel chose to be the next Los Angeles Chargers offensive coordinator.

… or did he?

On Friday, it was revealed that McDaniel will still interview for...

Detroit Lions linebacker Jack Campbell has been named the recipient of the 2025 Pro Butkus Award. The award, which is more known for the identical college honors, goes to the top linebacker in the NFL, as voted on by Butkus Award Selection Committee—a selection of 51 voters from all ranks of football, including NFL front office members, scouts, and coaches.

“Jack Campbell embodies everything the Butkus Award represents,” the committee said in a statement (via Hawkeyesports.com). “His size, instincts and disciplined approach to the position allow him to control the middle of the field. He plays with authority, communicates at...

Watching NFL Draft projections in January can trigger your vertigo, as analysts scramble to adjust their projections from pre-season expectations to end-of-season results.

In the first two installments of this year’s Mock Draft Roundup series, we saw the majority of NFL Draft analysts projecting the Lions to land Miami right tackle Francis Mauigoa. However, with Mauigoa getting a lot more attention during the College Football Playoffs—including playing in the National Championship last Monday—and NFL Draft expert Dane Brugler of The Athletic suggesting Mauigoa could be drafted among the top six picks in this year’s NFL Draft, we’ve seen a dramatic...

Changes are certainly coming for the Detroit Lions’ offense now that they’ve hired Drew Petzing to be their new offensive coordinator. While coach Dan Campbell is likely to still have his thumb on the scale, and Petzing’s overall philosophies certainly seem to overlap heavily with what Detroit has already had success with, the new coordinator will bring his own ideas and philosophies to the table. And that stands to benefit certain people within the Lions organization.

So this week, over on our YouTube page, Meko Scott and Morgan Cannon took a detailed look at Petzing’s past and forecasted which Detroit...