As Week 1 officially started on Labor Day, the Detroit Lins made several moves to their roster and with players changing numbers to get the ball rolling. Detroit Lions make several roster adjustments prior to Week 1 First up are the transactions, where the previously waived OC Seth McLaughlin and RB Jabari Small were added back to the Lion Practice Squad. This was due to the Lions Promoting LB Jo Bachie to the main 53-man roster from the PS and the placement of OL Mason Mill

Brad Holmes and ray Agnew Season Opening Press Conference Brad Holmes and Ray Agnew held their season opening press conference this morning and provides some insight on roster construction, decisions on players in the offseason and what some of the future my hold. Quick Hitters Holmes multiple times pointed out his appreciate for his staff in identifying players using metrics and other scouting techniques to uncovers guys in the UFL, or in lower rounds Holmes stated that with

After making the necessary roster moves, waivers and releases yesterday to get down to the initial 53-man roster, the Detroit Lions announced today the initial members of their 2026 practice squad with the roster type added. Of note, the Lions did not claim anyone nor were they awarded anyone they may have claimed. With the 14 players signe below, the Lions can add any type of PS player they need with the last two TE Thomas Gordon Rookie OT Devin Cochran Veteran <=9 Gms CB Ni

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

Day 16 of training camp was a padded practice that saw lots of situational ad 11 on 11 work. There are three training camp practices left after today. Detroit Lions QB Jared Goff chased by DE Aidan Hutchinson - Jeff Nguyen/Detroit Lions Injury Updates Updates from those in attendance along with Dan Campbell presser from the morning. Below is the list of existing and new situations since last practice of players not participating. The list of those not practicing, limited or e

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 Players, Coaches and Team The latest "Inside the Den: So It Begins" was dropped by the Lions media team last week, another awesome peek behind the curtain The Lions are continuing to expand their team, as they are now hiring a Full-Time Graphics Design Coordinator After going three-straight weeks with at lea

Day 14 of training camp was a night practice with fans in attendance to switch things up a bit and started with Campbell providing update son injuries and thoughts on some of the position battles and swaps going on and ended with teh defense having a great day in a scrimmage. Detroit Lions WR Tom Kennedy celebrating a TD - Jeff Nguyen/Detroit Lions Injury Updates Updates from those in attendance as there wasn't any during Petzing's press even this morning. Below is the list o

Dan Campbell Camp Day 6 Press Event 08/17/26 Dan Campbell kicked off his Day 14 press event with feedback on seveal players, some upocoming preseason strategy, injury updates and more. Injury Summary New/Updates: Onwuzurike expected at practice Scruggs to be on capped amount of reps Jameson Williams minor shoulder injury, wont practice Monday night and no timeline Nick Whiteside minor hamstring issue also will miss Monday practice No Changes: Branch - Potentially Early Septem

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

The Lions have made it to Day 7 of training camp, and Drew Petzing started it off, followed by a scorcher of a practice, with a few players being held out, a few coming off to have injuries tended to and a few more that were dealing with cramps. Lions Jameson Williams Hauls in a pass over Rock Ya-Sin Injury Updates Updates from those in attendance as there wasn't any during Petzing's press even this morning. Below is the list of existing and new situations since last practice

Lions Gibbs re-sets RB contract market two-days after Robinson RB Jahmyr Gibbs of the Detroit Lions has been holding a "sit in" while trying to get a new contract form the Detroit Lions. He was joining fellow 2023 draftee RB Bijan Robinson of Atlanta with this tactic, and they both got what they wanted in the end. Robinson signed a record deal on Tuesday morning making him the highest paid RB in the NFL, and Gibbs followed it up by re-setting the RB market on Thursday with

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

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

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

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

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 -

A day after brining the roster back up to the offseason maximum of 91, the Lions made another move today and cut veteran DT Jay Tufele. In addition, they placed S Chritian Izien on the Active/Non-Football Illness and OL Christian Mahogany on the Active Non-Football Injury lists. Lions make moves prior to camp Tufele was actually projected by our team to take the last DT (NT) spot in our camp preview, but the Lions apparently are going in a different direction. As far as Izie

Now that both the Rookies (Sat 7/25) and Veterans (Today) have reported for training camp, it's time to look at the Lions defense and Special Teams roster battles leading into camp. We will take a look at the players at each position and put them in the buckets that we think they fall, Starter, Backup, Bubble/Cut/Reserve/Practice Squad. The (Number) after each position is how many players, we think the Lions will keep starting the season. Projected Positional Numbers to g

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

Kerby Joseph proclaiming he wouldn't be going on the PUP. After declaring that he wouldn't be going on the list yesterday, Lions S Kerby Joseph was overruled by the Lions training staff and joined S Brian Branch and TE Ty Conklin on the Pre-Training Camp PUP list today as the Lions prepare for Veterans to report on Tuesday. Lions place three on PUP Both Branch (Achilles) and Joseph (Knee) were expected to be on the initial PUP list, but Conklin (Unknown injury suffered in OTA