The Lions had a bye in Week 6, but there is still some revelry going on for the absolutely dominating win in the dessert against the Cardinals in Week 5. The offense looked great, and the defense started to look...dare I say...competent? With the return of Brian Branch this week and better CB play due to getting back to more man-t-man sets, the defense will need another strong game against a Packers team that lives to draw flags and throw it deep and may get its running game

Detroit Lions Center Cade Mays Not too deep into the 2025 season, both the Detroit Lions and the Lions fanbase realized there was a significant problem at Center for the team after the sudden retirement of Frank Ragnow. The handpicked stopgap, Graham Glasgow, wasn't playing well and ultimately ended up getting hurt. This led to 2025 essentially being a rotation of players at the position that led to communication issues, guys in Goff's face constantly and poor overall play on

Welcome to The Grey Manes Monday Morning Rundown, a collection of news and notes from the prior week that impact the Lions, the NFL or whatever else catches my eye. Lions Week 3 Accomplishments Lions Players, Coaches and Team Amon-Ra St Brown joined Andre Rison with a rare feat which was one of NINE accomplishments for the Lions players in Week 3 To help bolster the DB room, three DBs were brought in on a tryout and S Jalen Mills was brought back to the practice Squad The Lio

After two weeks, the Lions are exactly where the vast majority of fans would have predicted they would be, 1-1 and facing four straight weeks of teams that were not good last year. The problem is that the defense has been...shall we say...sub-par so far. Giving up 30+ points each week and not looking like a solution is imminent. The Jets meanwhile are also 1-1, coming off blowing a 10-point fourth quarter lead against a Packers team that played terrible for most of the game

Both the Saints and Lions conducted estimated injury reports after not practicing on Wednesday. Week 1 Saints and Lions Practice Report #1 Saints Wednesday: Saints had three players that not practice, including starting Edge Cam Jordan. The ither three are depth palyers, but Alvin Kamara, the backup RB was limited. So overall the Saints are pretty healthy coming in as of now. Lions Wednesday: The Lions listed eight players on the injjury report, and although none are starters

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

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 future St. Browns Lions Players, Coaches and Team Amon-Ra St Brown is now engaged to his fiancé Brooklyn Adams The Lions have released additional "Get to Know" Pick posts including Jimmy Rolder and Keith Abney II The Lions Jahmyr Gibbs was rated #2 RB in the league for an ESPN survey conducted with Executives,

Lions Defensive Coordinator Kelvin Sheppard went on The Office Show with Dan Miller and Jennifer Hammond on Tuesday evening and dropped a significant amount of info on where he believes the Lions Defense is at, some breakout candidates and how he intends to improve over last year. On Roster Competition Shep said it's the most amount of jersey numbers and new faces he has had to learn in his six years Credits the front office bringing in competition, says that was the thing le

T-Minus 13 Days and counting down fast until the 2026 NFL Draft is upon us, and here at the Grey Manes, we have switched out focus almost exclusively to Draft Day. Last week, I ran a solo Mock Draft 1.0 through the PFFN Mock Draft Simulator and wrote about the journey on where I ended up. On the Pod last Tuesday , (7pm EST Tuesday Nights), Brent, Chris and I sat down and did a Live 1st Round Mock draft for all teams under some basic rules to see who the Detroit Lions woul