I’ve already seen many Detroit Lions fans move on quickly from the team’s 52-21 victory over the Chicago Bears, and that’s because a daunting game lies ahead. On Monday, the Lions will travel to the east coast to take on an impressive-looking Baltimore Ravens team.

The Ravens may be 1-1, but they boast one of the best offenses in the league by almost every metric. They lead the league in points (40.5 PPG), and yards per play (6.5). They’re second in EPA/per play and DVOA. They’re top five in yards per pass attempt (fourth), yards per carry (t-first), and passer...

After a historic performance in Week 2 of the 2025 NFL season, Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff has been named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week. This marks Goff’s fourth time winning this award since joining the Lions in 2021, tying him with Calvin Johnson for the second-most times a Lions player has won this award in team history (Barry Sanders leads the way with 11 NFC POTW awards).

Against the Bears, Goff completed 23 of 28 passes for 334 yards, five touchdowns, and a 156.0 passer rating. Goff is currently near the top of the NFL leader board...

Sometimes all it takes is a game at home to get back on the right path. After not playing how they wanted to during their Week 1 loss to the Green Bay Packers, the Detroit Lions rebounded nicely in Week 2, running over the Chicago Bears to the tune of a 52-21 beatdown inside of Ford Field. The offense got just about everything they wanted on the afternoon, and a big reason for that was the play of their two young guards—second-year left guard Christian Mahogany and rookie right guard Tate Ratledge.

In this film breakdown, we are going to...

After an intense reaction to the Detroit Lions’ struggles Week 1, NFL writers and analysts are changing their tunes.

While I did find a few people with more tempered reactions to Detroit’s uncharacteristically poor performance against the Green Bay Packers, there were plenty who sounded the panic alarm — after just one week into the 2025 NFL season.

The Lions roared back Week 2, pummeling the Chicago Bears 52-21. So what are people saying about the Detroit Lions now? Let’s take a look.

“Dan Campbell had a message he wanted to send. He wanted to send it specifically to...

While the Detroit Lions looked pretty darn good for the majority of their 52-21 victory over the Chicago Bears, it wasn’t all clean in the film room. And in order to continually get better, the Lions are going to take a longer look at their issues than the things they did well.

And that should start with the Detroit Lions’ run defense on Sunday. Despite holding Caleb Williams’ mobility in check (5 rushes, 27 yards), the Lions defense still allowed a total of 134 rushing yards, 5.0 yards per attempt, and a touchdown. That is clearly not up to Detroit’s...

Sunday’s performance by the Detroit Lions was what people expected out of them. The offense made multiple big plays, the defense made some key stops, created turnovers, and generated pressure on the quarterback, and the offensive line’s performance was night and day compared to the previous week. With how the Lions played against the Chicago Bears, they look like one of the best teams in the NFL.

But now, they have to go on the road to play a similar high-level team in the Baltimore Ravens, on “Monday Night Football.” What a way to snap back to reality, right? That...

Last week felt like a month, but the Detroit Lions righted their wrongs and ended the Motor City’s nightmare with an emphatic 50-burger against former Lions OC and recent hotshot head coaching candidate Ben Johnson’s Chicago Bears.

There have been only four games with 50+ points scored since the start of last season, and the Lions own three of them. Sunday’s 52-21 drubbing marked the first time in franchise history they topped 500 total net yards with five passing touchdowns and two rushing scores in the same game. It was a much-needed throttling and the total team effort was their...

The Detroit Lions made a flurry of roster moves on Tuesday afternoon, including changes to both their active 53-man roster and their practice squad. Here’s a full list of the moves:

• Signed OL Trystan Colon from the practice squad to the 53-man roster
• Placed TE Shane Zylstra on IR
• Cut LB Monty Rice from the practice squad
• Signed QB/WR Malik Cunningham to the practice squad
• Signed TE Ross Dwelley to the practice squad

Let’s start with the most straightforward moves: placing Zylstra on injured reserve and signing Dwelley to the practice squad. Zylstra suffered an...

Several NFL power ranking analysts wrote the Detroit Lions off after a difficult Week 1 loss to the Green Bay Packers. But after the Lions smashed the Chicago Bears 52-21 in Week 2—dispelling many of the national narratives created during the offseason—most of those analysts had to walk back their initial judgments when putting out their latest rankings.

Let’s take a look at where the Lions land in the NFL’s Week 3 power rankings.

Sports Illustrated: 5 (Previous rank: 12)

From Conor Orr:

The Lions came back from a down Week 1 to log the most efficient afternoon...

The Detroit Lions may be starting their preparation for the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson a little bit early. According to a report from Adam Schefter, the Lions are signing versatile quarterback/wide receiver Malik Cunningham to their practice squad.

Cunningham is a hyper-athletic quarterback out of Louisville who went undrafted in 2023. After spending a few months with the Patriots, he signed with the Ravens in the middle of his rookie season—reuniting with Jackson, who was his teammate briefly at Louisville. He re-signed with the Ravens this offseason, but did not make their 53-man squad.

Earlier this month, the Lions...

There are a ton of crazy statistics to come out of the Detroit Lions’ 52-21 beatdown of the Chicago Bears. Perhaps the most notable is that the Lions’ 8.8 yards per play set a franchise record, which seems impossible given how good the offense has been in recent years.

However, I may have a stat that comes close to beating that. Over at FTN Fantasy (the new-ish home of DVOA), Aaron Schatz shared a statistic about Jared Goff’s afternoon against the Bears. Goff had a near-perfect game, completing 23-of-28 passes for 334 yards, five touchdowns, and a 156.0 passer rating....

This early in the season, it’s always hard to find where a team’s true identity lies. And in the case of the 2025 Detroit Lions, you have two polar opposite performances to deal with. Just look at the difference in yards per play in each game, and it’s like you’re talking about two completely different teams.

Week 1:

• Lions: 3.8
• Packers: 5.7

Week 2:

• Lions: 8.8
• Bears: 5.3

Now the question becomes: Who are the Detroit Lions? Is the offense all the way back to 2024 levels after hanging 52 points on a Chicago Bears team...