As a team, the Detroit Lions have a ton to prove this season.

After taking a step back in 2025 for the first time in the Dan Campbell era, doubt is starting to creep in both within Detroit and from the national audience. It hasn’t been a splashy offseason, and with some drama surrounding the departures of Alex Anzalone, Taylor Decker, and Terrion Arnold, the vibes have certainly been off.

Proving the doubters wrong starts at an individual level, and there are plenty of Lions players who must use this season to turn their career around or show that they...

Earlier this week, we published our latest SB Nation Reacts survey, sponsored by the folks over at FanDuel Sportsbook, and we asked Detroit Lions fans to help settle a debate between Jeremy Reisman and me by answering the question: Who will have more receiving yards in 2026: Isaac TeSlaa or Jahmyr Gibbs?

While this debate seems far from over, and we’re over six months away from getting an answer to this question, Lions fans have picked their sides.

Let’s take a look at the results from our survey:

Let’s take a look at the **[comment section of our original...

In the wake of Terrion Arnold’s recent departure from the team, the Detroit Lions are in need of at least two cornerbacks to step up in 2026.

D.J. Reed was signed to be one of those players last year. After not being able to come to an agreement with Carlton Davis, the Lions pivoted to Reed in free agency and inked him to a three-year, $48 million deal last offseason. At the time, it was praised as a savvy and frugal move from Brad Holmes, but after an injury-filled season in Detroit, Reed has a ton of pressure on him...

In Detroit, it’s blasphemous to call anyone other than Barry Sanders the greatest running back of all time.

But in Chicago, it’s the exact same, but with Walter Payton, instead. In Cleveland, they’ve got their argument for Jim Brown, and I’m sure Dallasites believe with all their silly hearts that Emmitt Smith is the guy.

That’s why I find it very interesting that our friends at Windy City Gridiron, the SB Nation site for the Chicago Bears, recently ranked the top-100 running back of all time, and while they predictably put Payton first, they may have accidentally made the case...

Prior to Terrion Arnold’s arrest and subsequent release, the Detroit Lions said that he would have to compete and win a starting job.

“We’ve got a lot of good guys in that room and he knows this, he’s got to go earn it,” coach Dan Campbell said on the final day of mandatory minicamp.

Whether that was going to be a real competition or Arnold’s job to lose is something we’ll never know for sure. But it now does bring up the question: can the Lions be okay at cornerback without Arnold, or do they need to add more competition....

Throughout the offseason, SB Nation will host surveys for NFL fans, sponsored by the folks over at FanDuel Sportsbook. For Pride of Detroit, we are tasked with fielding questions from Detroit Lions fans, and this week’s question stems from a debate between Jeremy Reisman and me during a recent Mid-Week Mailbag podcast episode.

In between segments, Jeremy and I took questions from our live audience, and listener Max asked us who would end up with the third-most receiving yards for the Lions in 2026. We assumed Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jameson Williams would be the top two leaders, respectively–as has...

Did the Detroit Lions get better this offseason?

It’s a question that we won’t know the answer to until after the 2026 season is over. There were certainly a lot of notable losses this offseason, including Alex Anzalone, Amik Robertson, Al-Quadin Muhammad, and David Montgomery, among others. But the Lions also did add Cade Mays, DJ Wonnum, Roger McCreary, Christian Izien, and Chuck Clark. Additionally, they are hoping the development of players like Tyleik Williams, Christian Mahogany, Tate Ratledge, and Isaac TeSlaa helps improve the core of the team.

This week, [ESPN’s Seth Walder took a crack at grading every...

Levi Onwuzurike was the Detroit Lions’ second-round pick way back in 2021. The second ever draft pick of general manager Brad Holmes, there were high hopes that Onwuzurike could help fortify the defensive line for years to come.

And while Onwuzurike remains on the roster a full five years later, injuries have taken a toll and he hasn’t yet lived up to that draft billing. But thanks to a little-known contract stipulation, Onwuzurike is back in 2026 with his injuries apparently behind him. Is it possible he can take this last chance with Detroit and parlay it into a successful...

On Monday, hours after a Florida judge set Terrion Arnold’s bond at $1 million, the Detroit Lions cut ties with the 23-year-old cornerback.

For some, it was a pretty big shock. The Lions had not released Arnold when he was originally arrested last week. It appeared they were waiting for his bond hearing. And it looked like there was some hope on the horizon when Arnold essentially won that pre-trial hearing, allowing bond to be set where his six other co-defendants all did not get the chance for bond.

So why did the Lions decide to cut Terrion Arnold Monday...

The Detroit Lions’ roster is at 90 players just weeks away from the start of 2026 training camp. It’s been a long offseason, but it’s almost coming to a merciful end. With a little time on our hands right now, let’s re-examine the Lions’ offseason moves and start with free agency.

Detroit’s list of free agency adds is pretty lengthy, and the linked list doesn’t even include the four UFL receivers the team added at the end of mandatory minicamp. But the thing that stands out most about the Lions’ free agency class is that only one external free agent...

There may not be a single currently Detroit Lions player more negatively impacted by the team’s offseason moves than Giovanni Manu. The developmental offensive tackle is entering his third year with the team after being drafted in the third round of the 2024 NFL Draft, and this was the season many hoped to see a jump in the depth chart. But in free agency the Lions signed offensive tackle Larry Borom and they drafted Blake Miller in the first round. With Penei Sewell not going anywhere, Manu is pretty firmly OT4 on the team right now.

Before the team broke...

The NFL is slowly unveiling its Top-100 Players of 2026 list, as voted by players. At the moment, they’re revealing two players at a time, and on Tuesday, they got to their first Detroit Lions player.

Jack Campbell ranked 88th on the list this year.

It’s the first time the Lions linebacker has made the list at all, and it comes after a breakout season from the 2023 first-round pick. In 2025, Campbell produced career highs in tackles (176), tackles for loss (9), sacks (5.0), and forced fumbles (three). For his phenomenal year, he was named to the Pro Bowl...