For the first time this offseason, Aidan Hutchinson was spotted at the Detroit Lions’ offseason program.

For a few weeks now, the Detroit Lions have been posting photo galleries of daily offseason workouts, but there has been one noticeable absence. Defensive end Aidan Hutchinson hadn’t shown up in a single photo gallery since Detroit started their offseason program on April 22. But for Monday’s gallery (May 12), Hutchinson was front and center as the Lions took their practice field.

At this point, it’s unclear what level of participation the Lions star defensive end is taking part in. Last month at...

Aaron Glenn talked about how Dan Campbell and daily visits with Jameson Williams helped prepare him for being a head coach.

This past weekend, Aaron Glenn ran his first-ever rookie minicamp. The former Detroit Lions defensive coordinator turned New York Jets coach is just beginning to lay the foundation for what he hopes will be a new era of successful Jets football.

On Saturday, Glenn met with the New York media, and immediately credited Lions coach Dan Campbell for having him prepared to take on the responsibilities of an NFL head coaching job.

“I give a lot of credit, man,...

The Philadelphia Eagles will open the 2025 season against the Dallas Cowboys, not the Detroit Lions.

The first game of the 2025 NFL schedule has been released. We always knew that the Philadelphia Eagles would open the season on Thursday night at home—as the league’s Super Bowl champions. However, their opponent hadn’t been revealed until Monday morning.

On Monday, it was announced the Eagles will open the season against the Dallas Cowboys.

There was a good chance the Detroit Lions could have gotten the season opener again. The Lions are set to face the Eagles on the road this year,...

How many primetime games will the Detroit Lions have in 2025?

Are the Detroit Lions ready for another season in the national spotlight?

Last season, the Lions played seven primetime games. They played on “Sunday Night Football” against the Los Angeles Rams (Week 1), Houston Texans (Week 10), and Minnesota Vikings (Week 18). They had a pair of back-to-back Thursday games in Week 13 and Week 14, the first of which was the annual Thanksgiving Day game. Both games happened to feature fellow NFC North foes, the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. Finally, they had two “Monday Night Football”...

Everything you need to know about the 2025 NFL schedule release and what it means for the Detroit Lions.

The NFL schedule release has become one of the bigger days of the offseason. But the NFL is apparently no longer happy with the schedule release being a single moment on a single day. So this year, the NFL has a full week of scheduled releases of games for the 2025 season.

When it comes to the Detroit Lions, we already know the opponents for all 17 games. But the order, date, and timeslot of those games have yet to be...

Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes delivered a powerful speech at his alma mater: North Carolina A&T State.

Over the weekend, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes went back to his roots. He traveled back to his alma mater North Carolina A&T State University to deliver the commencement speech to the graduating class.

You can see a short clip of it—courtesy of the Greensboro News & Record—via YouTube or below.

The most striking moment from the 2.5 minute clip is when Holmes is talking about a piece of advice he derived from a poem called “Choose Your Hard.” Here’s that...

Lions’ cornerback D.J. Reed went to Twitter to tell people how excited he is to be playing with safeties Kerby Joseph and Brian Branch.

Detroit Lions’ cornerback D.J. Reed is no stranger to playing in a talented secondary. Originally drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 2018, Reed spent two years in Seattle, and the last three seasons of his career with the New York Jets.

Reed now joins a talented and young secondary in Detroit, and judging by a few recent tweets—it’s safe to say he is pretty excited to be a Lion.

If you’re a veteran defensive back...

Who do you want to be the Detroit Lions’ opponent in the 2025 season opener.

The NFL is rolling out its 2025 schedule release all of next week. There will be individual games intentionally leaked out starting on Monday and running all the way through the official full announcement on Wednesday night.

When the schedule is released, fans always seem to look for the same kind of things. How many primetime games is my team getting? When is my team’s bye week? When will my team be playing outdoors? And for the traveling fan type, the NFL schedule release is...

Sonic and Knuckles are the cream of the top.

The title for best running back room in the league goes to the Detroit Lions, per one CBS Sports analyst.

Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery, nicknamed Sonic and Knuckles, rushed for a combined 2,000+ yards and 25 touchdowns last season, cementing themselves as the best running back duo in the NFL.

“While Montgomery is the power to this backfield, Gibbs is the lightning and is just now grasping the peak of his powers,” CBS Sports’ Tyler Sullivan writes.

Some of his supporting argument includes the fact that they’re the first pair...

Detroit Lions 6th-round pick Ahmed Hassanein doesn’t count against the roster due to a little-known rule.

On Friday, the Detroit Lions announced they had signed four of their seven drafted players from the 2025 NFL Draft. One of those players was defensive end Ahmed Hassanein, the first Egyptian-native player to have ever been drafted in the NFL. On the NFL’s transaction list for Friday, Hassanein showed up as a roster exemption, as an international player. In short, that means he does not count against Detroit’s 90-man roster limit for the time being.

**Why does Ahmed Hassanein qualify for the...

Our selections for most encouraging performances from Detroit Lions rookie minicamp.

First impressions aren’t everything, but they are something.

On Friday, the 2025 Detroit Lions rookie class took the field for the first of three rookie minicamp practices. That’s the only practice we’ll get to see from a media standpoint, so that will be our lasting impression of this rookie class until they take the field with the veterans during Organized Team Activities at the end of the month.

Obviously you, the reader, don’t have a direct first impression of this rookie class. But plenty has already been written about...

Breaking down the Detroit Lions’ first rookie minicamp of 2025 and how each draft pick performed.

The Detroit Lions rookie class took the field on Friday morning for the first of three rookie minicamp practices. This was the only of the three that will be opened to the media, so I took as detailed notes as I possibly could.

Here are my biggest takeaways from practice, particularly with Detroit’s seven 2025 draft picks.

Note: For a full list of participants, check out this earlier story on the UDFA signings and tryout players.

DT Tyleik Williams

As pointed out in...