There is a palpable sense of skepticism when it comes to the national opinion of the 2025 Detroit Lions. After a 15-2 season, many are expecting a step back, and one of the major reasons given is the loss of offensive coordinator Ben Johnson to the Chicago Bears as their new head coach. Johnson was replaced by John Morton, a senior offensive assistant to the Lions in 2022, when Johnson was just building his own offense in Detroit.

There hasn’t been much positive buzz about Morton—some pointing to his thin history as a play-caller, others simply not impressed that he...

Whenever a team drafts a raw receiver in the third round with a bevy of reliable veterans ahead of him on the depth chart, it is safe to assume that his rookie season will essentially be spent learning. With Isaac TeSlaa, however, his path to the starting lineup was carved out quicker than everyone expected.

Prospects billed as “developmental” are not supposed to progress like TeSlaa has in a few short months of training camp and preseason. Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jameson Williams were entrenched as the top receivers in the Detroit Lions’ offense, a role TeSlaa was never going...

With NFL football on Thursday (and Friday), and Detroit Lions action a week away, I think it’s officially fair to call this GAME WEEK!

The 2025 NFL season is basically upon us, and that means it’s time to start making our predictions for the year ahead. Every year, our staff makes our best guesses about the Detroit Lions—from who will be their standout players to where they’ll finish in the division, to our favorite picks to win the Super Bowl.

This year’s predictions start with a toughie. The Lions’ offense finished first in the NFL last year, and despite some...

We’re officially just a week away from Detroit Lions football, and after a week of roster cuts, the team finally has a full 53-man roster and 16-man practice squad.

While there have been some surprises along the way, the team is still—at its core—the team we expected. The Lions have playmakers at every level, depth at most positions, and a championship-level amount of overall talent, no matter how much of the national attention has shifted to the divisional rival Green Bay Packers.

But let’s just keep the discussion insular for today. The Lions roster is excellent, but it’s not perfect....

Just days away from the NFL season opener, NFL.com analysts are predicting their end-of-the-year awards for the 2025-26 season. Nearly 30 NFL.com analysts cast their votes for the winners of eight of the league’s individual awards, and Detroit Lions players are projected to win two of them.

Lions edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson was predicted to win Comeback Player of the Year with a whopping 15 of the 30 votes, and All-Pro offensive tackle Penei Sewell was voted to win the new Protector of the Year award with nine votes.

Hutchinson, who is coming off a broken leg, has been sensational...

Everywhere you turn, everywhere you go, it’s Micah Parsons. It’s Micah Parsons and the great case of “Why hasn’t Brad Holmes done something to improve the Detroit Lions pass rush?!”

Today’s Question of the Day is:

Should the Lions have went all-in for a pass rusher?

My answer: Everyone’s going to define “all-in” differently, so let’s tackle that first and foremost. Today’s discussion is obviously borne out of the Green Bay Packers acquiring Micah Parsons, a move that could definitely be characterized as going “all-in.” So, there’s our baseline: two first-round draft picks and Kenny Clark. [Erik Schlitt outlined...

Earlier this week, we published our latest SB Nation Reacts survey, asking Detroit Lions fans if their confidence level in the team has changed from the beginning of the offseason. However, on my way to collecting the results from this survey, I took a peek at SB Nation’s national surveys and came across something that warranted some attention.

The four surveys sent to NFL fans asked them to vote on end-of-year awards, including league MVP, as well as Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year, and Rookie of the Year. Jaymyr Gibbs took home seven percent of the vote for...

The Detroit Lions have added the final player to their initial 53-man roster for the 2025 season, claiming safety Thomas Harper off waivers from the Las Vegas Raiders.

Harper played for four seasons at Oklahoma State before transferring to Notre Dame in 2023 for his 5th collegiate season. He would go undrafted in the 2024 NFL Draft and would sign with the Los Angeles Chargers, but was released at cutdowns and claimed off waivers by the Raiders. During his rookie season, Thomas played in 15 games—started in five (191 snaps on defense)—and recorded 26 tackles, two pass deflections, an interception,...

When the Detroit Lions traded up to draft Tate Ratledge in the second round of the 2025 NFL Draft, they knew he could be a plug-and-play right guard, but they believed he could have an even higher developmental ceiling at center. After spending all of spring practices and the first week of summer training camp at center, the Lions opted to shift him back to right guard, where he will likely stay for his rookie season.

When the Lions decided to shift Ratledge back to guard, the rookie took a handful of practices to reacclimate. However, by the time Detroit...

After adding 15 players to their initial practice squad on Wednesday, the Detroit Lions signed their 16th player—former Vikings and Raiders pass rusher, Andre Carter II—on Thursday and have reached their maximum player allotment.

A three-year starting defensive end at Army, Carter entered the NFL Draft following a change in legislation allowing individuals to defer service in order to pursue an NFL career. Unfortunately, he would go undrafted, but Carter was able to land with the Vikings on an UDFA contract. Carter impressed in training camp and earned a spot on the active roster and played in 12 games during...

The Detroit Lions’ 2025 Week 1 opponent, the Green Bay Packers, have acquired All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons from the Dallas Cowboys in a monster trade ahead of the regular season. The terms of the deal have the Packers giving up two first-round picks and Lion-killer defensive tackle Kenny Clark in exchange for Parsons.

The Lions and Packers play each other in their season openers in Green Bay, and this move should dramatically impact the scope of how this game will be played. Let’s look at the pros and cons of this deal from the Lions’ perspective.

Cons for the...

Die-hard Detroit Lions fans have been waiting for this day for five years now, but the long wait is over. Penei Sewell, the first draft pick of the Dan Campbell-Brad Holmes era, is officially considered the best offensive lineman in football.

In this year’s NFL Top 100 list for the 2025 season—which is voted on by the players—the Lions’ two-time first-team All-Pro right tackle checks in as the 13th-best player in the NFL, the highest ranking for any offensive lineman. It’s a nine-spot jump for Sewell, who checked in at No. 22 in 2024 and was shockingly unranked during his...