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The Detroit Lions will be under a ton of pressure during the 2025 NFL season. That may sound odd for a team coming off its best regular season in franchise history. But the stakes have never been higher for the Lions. And it is the first time during the Dan Campbell-Brad Holmes era that the team could loss more games than it did the year before.
Detroit likely won’t repeat with a 15-win season in 2025. But Lions fans will be happy as long as their team can gets some wins during the postseason.
The Lions have already faced a good deal of adversity in 2025, and the preseason has not even started yet.
Detroit lost both of its coordinators, Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn, to head coaching jobs with other teams. Now John Morton and Kelvin Sheppard have to step up and replace them with only one offseason to prepare.
The Lions also have to deal with the sudden retirement of veteran center Frank Ragnow, who hung up his cleats back in June.
Everyone knows that Detroit is a gritty team, but overcoming those obstacles is no easy feat.
But how do the Lions look during the early stages of training camp? Do they look primed for another incredible season, or could they take a step back?
Below we will explore three Lions players who have struggled early at training camp.
We’ll start with a surprising name.
Tim Patrick is a surprise for me because he is a seven-year veteran in the NFL, making this his eighth training camp.
So why exactly is Patrick struggling during this year’s training camp?
One reason is that this is his first season in Detroit during the offseason. Patrick joined the Lions just before the start of the 2024 season, but he spent the entire offseason with the Denver Broncos.
Patrick told reporters that he is taking inspiration from the team’s younger receivers while he gets up to speed.
“This probably one of the hardest training camps I’ve been around, and for them to handle it the way they’ve been handling it is very encouraging and inspiring,” Patrick said, per Pride of Detroit’s Jeremy Reisman. “It makes me want to go harder, because I’ve been slacking a little bit, so they’re picking up my game play.”
It is also worth noting that Patrick, like the rest of Detroit’s players, is adjusting to a brand new offensive scheme under new OC John Morton.
“Camp is where you really find who you have, you bond with your teammates, you go to war with them every day, because camp is hard. This is my first time going through a camp like this,” Patrick added.
Patrick may be off to a slow start, but he has proven throughout his professional career that he has what it takes to succeed in the NFL.
“Yeah, starting off a little slow, but I promise you by the...
