Pride of Detroit
Our 2025 Detroit Lions roster rankings from players 70 through 61 feature some of the biggest risers and fallers from last year.
We’ve reached Players 70-61 on our 2025 Detroit Lions roster ranking. When you figure in the 53 players who make the main roster, there are 16 players below that who make it to the practice squad—or the players essentially ranked 54 through 69. That’s at the heart of this list. Many of these players will stick around, and a few of them have a decent shot at the roster.
What’s perhaps most interesting about this interval of players is that it represents some of the biggest risers and the biggest fallers from last year’s list. Let’s dive in.
Previously:
Smith jumps a couple spots from last year after playing in five games for the Lions last year. It was a mere 47 snaps—most of which came after serious injury problems on defense—but he got occasional praise from the coaching staff. Take, for example, Dan Campbell during last year’s training camp:
“Some of these guys have just consistently gotten better and I say it all the time, we don’t expect this. We just expect this, this slow steady climb. You get a little bit better every day because there is consistency to that. A guy like Chris Smith does that every day. There will be things on tape that you don’t see. He’s tying up guys. He does dirty work, and he does exactly what he’s coached, and he does it over and over and over again.”
Still at just 25 years old, Smith is a good player to have on the practice squad, and could even see playing time early while rookie Tyliek Williams adjusts to life in the NFL and Alim McNeill is injured.
Agude, too, saw a tad bit of playing time last year amidst all the injuries, but he interestingly dropped a few spots this year after some optimism following a practice squad year in 2023. Perhaps some confidence was lost after he managed just 40 defensive snaps despite the plethora of injuries at defensive end last year.
Last year’s ranking: N/A
Bell has the third-widest variance among our staff voting. Perhaps this represents a Michigan/Michigan State split in our writers for the former Wolverine.
Bell faces an uphill climb in a crowded receiver room, but he’s still an intriguing player. A seventh-round pick for the 49ers in 2023, Bell appeared in 26 games over two years in san Francisco. Working in his favor is the 125 special teams snaps he’s played at the NFL level, which is more than you can say for the pair of UDFAs this year.
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