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Dan Campbell Camp 09/08/26 Press Event
Dan Campbell 09/08/26 Press Event Injury Summary New/Updates: Thomas Harper - Back at Practice Mekhi Wingo/Ben Bartch - Back at Practice Isiah Pacheco - Back at Practice Sam LaPorta - Back at Practice Jimmy Rolder - Back at Practice No Changes/Updates: Brain Branch - Potentially Early September Kerby Joseph - Back with the team doing rehab in the facility. Last true update on knee is that it will linger into the season on same timeline as Branch. Giovani Manu - Added to NFI/I
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Detroit Lions Announce Initial 2026 Roster
After a few hours past the 6PM deadline, the Detroit Lions finally released their initial 53-man roster for the 2026 season, and it had several surprises on it in both the cuts and the keeps. Now, before we get too far down the rabbit hole, there is likely some roster management going on with some of the cuts, and it is likely that Holmes is not done, as he may look to pick up some players that were waived or released by other teams. Brent and Chris did a live reaction show
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Dan Campbell Camp Day 17 Press Event
Dan Campbell Camp Day 17 Press Event 08/25/26 Dan Campbell kicked off his Day 17 by going strright to questions. Injury Summary New/Updates: Kerby Joseph - Still away from team after leaving to handle personal matter. Cambell said he is doing well, but last true update on knee is that it will linger into the season on same timeline as Branch. Damone Clark - Campbell said that Clark is done indefinitely with his undisclosed injury. Thomas Harper - Dealing with Ankle injury, li
Aug 2511 min read
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Detroit Lions Roster Bubble Watch - 08/25/26
Updated 08/25/26 8:45 AM EST As the Lions continue working through training camp and the preseason, here is the status by position of the players that the staff of The Grey Manes thinks will ultimately comprise the initial 53-man roster. The number in parenthesis after each position and unit indicates The Grey Manes expected targeted number for each. Detroit Lions QB Luke Altmyer warms up at Ford Field - Jeff Nguyen/Detroit Lions OFFENSE (24) Quarterback (2^) On The Team: Ja
Aug 255 min read
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Monday Morning Rundown: 08/10/26
Welcome to The Grey Manes Monday Morning Rundown, a collection of news and notes form the prior week that impact the Lions, the NFL or whatever else catches my eye. Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs - Nicole Scharff Detroit Lions Lions Players, Coaches and Team The Lions hired a new President and CEO...Richard Haddad of the Detroit Pistons Brian Branch (108) and Jameson Williams (106) came up just short of the NFLs Top 100 Penei Sewell was #37 in the NFLs Top 100 players, which feels abo
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Lions 2026 Training Camp Day 6 Recap
The Lions have made it to Day 5 of training camp, and it's the first day in full pads. Time to separate the men from the boys and see who is worthy to be on the roster come the fall. Campbell provided injnury updates, the Lions signed a new TE and let a WR go and there were lots of guests at camp, including the general public. Lions OT Larry Borom - Jeff Nguyen Injury Updates Updates from Dan Campbell's press event this morning, providing clarity on existing and new situatio
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Lions 2026 Training Camp Day 5 Recap
The Lions have made it to Day 5 of training camp, and it's the first day in full pads. Time to separate the men from the boys and see who is worthy to be on the roster come the fall. Campbell provided injnury updates, the Lions signed a new TE and let a WR go and there were lots of guests at camp, including the general public. Jared Goff, Romy Goff, Sheil Ford-Hanp and Martha Ford - Photo Will Burchfield 97.1 The Ticket Injury Updates Updates from Dan Campbell's press event
Aug 314 min read
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Dan Campbell Camp Day 5 Press Event
Dan Campbell Camp Day 5 Press Event 08/02/26 Dan Campbell kicked off his Day 3 press event with no opening statement and dove straight into questions. He did drop a few new nuggets on Izien and nickel, Gibbs "back" injury and talked about Dortch and the OL. Injury Summary New: Blake Miller - Will Roll today, held back yesterday should be ok Kitselman - will be out for awhile Derrick Moore - Strain, 7-10 days No Changes: Branch - Potentially Early September Kerby - Likely will
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Lions 2026 Training Camp Day 4 Recap
The Detroit Lions held their Day 4 of training Camp on Sunday after taking Saturday off. As expected, there were a lot of updates and movement on injured players, Shep fille din for Campbell at the podium and the Lions had a national guest at camp. Oh, it was also the first day fans were in attendance, so that always gets the players excited. Lions TE Jackson Meeks and S Dan Jackson - Jeff Nguyen/Detroit Lions Injury Updates Updates from Dan Campbell's press event this morni
Aug 325 min read
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Detroit Lions 2026 Training Camp Day 3 Recap
Day 3 of training camp kicked off, and it started with a swap of TEs, then good news around two players on NFI, another big play by a guy that has been excelling in camp and ended with two players suffering injuries that needed to be checked out. Lions TE Brock Wright and LB Jack Campbell - Nicole Scharff/Detroit Lions Injury Updates Updates from Dan Campbell's press event this morning, providing clarity on existing and new situations since last practice of players not partic
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Lions swap TEs Waiving Zach Horton and signing Anthony Firkser
The Detroit Lions made another roster move on Friday morning prior to Day 3 of camp, re-signing TE Anthony Firkser and cutting TE Zach Horton. Detroit Lions cut TE Zach Horton and sign TE Anthony Firkser Dan Campbell just wrapped his press event about 20 minutes ago and this news hadn't come out yet, but with TE Ty Conklin laid up for the next couple of weeks and the pads coming on soon, it's likely that the team wanted to get another experienced veteran into the TE room to m
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Lions Put OL Gio Manu on NFI list, future continues to be in doubt
In a surprise move, the Detroit Lions yesterday put OL Giovanni Manu on the Non-Football Injury List with an injury designation, catching many off guard because he started practice and wasn't in any health updates form Campbell. Lions place OL Gio Manu on NFI/Injured At today's Day 2 press event, Campbell clarified the situation, and it doesn't bode well for the young OL from Canada. Per Campbell, Manu had a "previous injury over the summer that was not disclosed." This was
Jul 301 min read
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Detroit Lions 2026 Training Camp Day 1 Recap
The Detroit Lions kick off their 2026 training camp today with an initial acclimation practice that is expected to run just around an hour and a half. No pads yet, so we are back to similar conditions that we saw in OTAs and Minicamp. Campbell held his opening press event and touched on a bunch of injuries and other topics, which can be seen below. There was one surprise cut, one "surprise" non-participant and a whole lot more. Lions QB Jared Goff arrives at Training Camp -
Jul 3024 min read
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Lions to Sign LB Troy Reeder
The Detroit Lions are poised to fill out their final roster spot with the signing of LB Troy Reeder per his Management Company. Incidentally, Reeder was not re-signed by the Rams after they signed the Lions Grant Stuard as a younger (and attempted upgrade) version of the Special teams trole that Reeder had been filling. Troy Reeder signing with Lions Announcement on X Reeder is a seven-year veteran that was a 2019 USFA of Rams out of Penn State, and he has played exclusively
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Detroit Lions 2026 Week 3 OTA Recap
The third and final week of OTAs for the 2026 Detroit Lions has concluded and as the Lions get deeper into the off-season workouts, we start to see some trends emerge along with players that start to separate themselves from the pack early in the process. Let's recap the most important bits of news that came out of the three-day camp from the press events, photos, interviews and boots on the ground from the Lions beat reporters. Photo - Jeff Nguyen Detroit Lions Injury Updat
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Detroit Lions 2026 Week 1 OTA Recap
The first week of OTAs for the 2026 Detroit Lions has concluded and a significant amount of information came out from the press events, photos, interviews and boots on the ground from the Lions beat reporters. Let's recap the most important bits of news that came out of the three-day camp: Photo - Jeff Nguyen Detroit Lions Injury Updates Dan Campbell in his press conference on Thursday provided several key injury updates on players, including those that ended last year on IR
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Detroit Lions Select Clemson OT Blake Miller in Round 1 of NFL Draft
After what can only be called a disappointing season, the Detroit Lions made a move today to shore up the Offensive Line to make another run at the Super Bowl in the upcoming 2026-2027 season. Sticking with the 17th overall pick, the Lions selected Clemson OT Blake Miller to likely be the starting RT of the future. Take a look at his RAS score and PFF grades form last year, and he is about the most balance OL pick of the draft, and a great addition for Hank Fraley. His RAS is
Apr 231 min read
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Monday Morning Rundown: 04/06/26
Welcome to The Grey Manes Monday Morning Rundown, a collection of news and notes form the prior week that impact the Lions, the NFL or whatever else catches my eye. The Riddell Retro Collection Lions Players, Coaches and Team Dan Campbell at the Owner's Meeting said the Lions would not partake in joint practices this summer The Detroit Lions are at five Global Marketing Partnerships including Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Austria and Brazil Lions likely to move Penei Sewel
Apr 63 min read
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Updated Detroit Lions Jersey Numbers for 2026
The Detroit Lions have had quite a bit of turnover this offseason, with some key veterans moving on in Free Agency while others were cut or retired. In addition to all of the Fre e Agents signed, there will be plenty of Jersey Number changes coming up for the 2026 Offseason. Below is the running list of known number changes for returning players and the free agent signings that do and do not have a new number. However, before you look at that list, one interesting nugget is
Apr 43 min read
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Lions News and Nuggets - 02/16/26
Our weekly segment on Lions News, nuggets and rumors that have occurred within the last time frame that this was posted. Lions Coach Dan Skipper Lions Pl ayers, Coaches and Team The Lions blocked the Dolphins from interviewing Offensive Assistant Bruce Gradkowski for their QB Coach. Dan Skipper has been hired to the Detroit Lions Coaching Staff On Feb 13th, DJ Reader and Alex Anzalone's' contracts officially voided , adding ~$5M to the Lions Dead Cap for 23025, which now st
Feb 163 min read
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