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. Jahmyr Gibbs and Jack Campbell with Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes Lions Players, Coaches and Team What will the Lions do with the Fifth year Options for Gibbs and Campbell The Lions announced their 2026 Coaching staff and there were seven Changes in roles or new Hires from 2025. The Lions Director of Sports Perf

As the new league year approaches, NFL teams will have a short period (03/11/26 - 05/01/26) starting on the first day of the 2026 NFL League Year to decide whether they want to exercise the 5th Year Option on their 2023 1st Round Draft Picks or let them hit Unrestricted Free Agency. The Lions will be in a unique position for the second year in a row, because they have not one, but two players that will qualify for the option if they do not extend them first. The NFL publiciz

This is the Ninth and Last in our series of roster analysis by position group for the 2026 offseason leading up to Free Agency and the NFL draft. Today’s focus will be on Special teams, where the Lions have control of their K (ERFA), Punter (under Contract) and LS (Under Contract, but the return game will need some assistance. Detroit Lions P Jack Fox and K Jake Bates STs Under Contract: Jack Fox (P), Hogan Hatten (LS), Jacob Saylors (KR-Re-Signed ERFA), Sione Vaki (KR) Free

As Draft Season moves ahead with the Combine, The Grey Manes will be identifying and listing all of the Draft Interactions that the Lions have had from the All-Star Games through the last Top 30 Visit. Brad Holmes has historically been known to draft players that they have met with, so these can tell a bit about the Lions thought process and roster direction come the draft and UDFA signing. Click HERE see the complete list.

In one of the worst kept secrets in the NFL, the Detroit Lions officially announced today that they will be hosting the INFL International game in Munich Germany in the upcoming 2026 season. The game will be played at the FC Bayern Munich Stadium . The Liosn have a dedicated page set up to inquire about tickets, receive news and any updates regarding the game. Detroit Lions hosting game in Germany in 2026 As more information becomes available, we will keep you updated.

This is the eighth in our series of roster analysis by position group for the 2026 offseason leading up to Free Agency and the NFL draft. Today’s focus will be on the DB room, which has significant health questions despite Brad Holmes throwing multiple Draft Picks and FA signings at it the last few years. Detroit Lions starting Safeties Kerby Joseph and Brian Branch DB Under Contract: CB: Terrion Arnold, D.J. Reed, Ennis Rakestraw, Khalil Dorsey, Nick Whiteside (ERFA-Re-Sig

The 2026 NFL Combine is upon us, which unofficially kick starts the two-month window for Draft Season that will culminate with the Detroit Lions (as of now) picking a future player at no. 17 overall in Pittsburgh in late April. The Combine will open Tuesday, and the NFL put out a release a few weeks ago detailing the 319 Prospects that were invited to attend. Almost all will show up, although many will forego any on-field testing or workouts for a variety of reasons, inclu

The Detroit Lions announced their full 2026 Coaching staff earlier today and it finally clears up a couple of unknow roles for recently mentioned hires. There is a total of 12 Title or role changes from last season amongst coaches and the training staff. Changes Of Note: Drew Petzing - New Hire: Offensive Coordinator (replaces the Fired Jon Morton) Mike Kafka - New Hire: Pass Game Coordinator Dan Skipper - New Hire: Offensive Assistant Bruce Gradkowski - New Title: Assista

After two weeks of using News and Nuggets, we have decided to rebrand our weekly item to be called the "Monday Morning Rundown". Going forward, expect this to be posted each Monday and contain the news and notes form the prior week that impact the Lions, the NFL or whatever else catches my eye. Detroit Lions President Rod Wood interviewed by Lions team reporter Dannie Rogers Lions Players, Coaches and Team Rod Wood is retiring as Lions Team President prior to the start of t

This is the seventh in our series of roster analysis by position group for the 2026 offseason leading up to Free Agency and the NFL draft. Today’s focus will be on the LB room, which has only two players currently under contract for the 2026 season, leaving lots of questions for both the starting unit and the special teams play. Lions LBs Jack Campbell (#46) and Derrick Barnes (#55) chasing Lamar Jackson (#8) ©Jess Rapfogel, Getty Images LB Under Contract: LB: Jack Campbell,

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

This is the sixth in our series of roster analysis by position group for the 2026 offseason leading up to Free Agency and the NFL draft. Today’s focus will be on the DL room, which has three of the four positions nailed down, but still is missing that fourth amigo and the depth and rotational guys all have questions. Detroit Lions Alim McNeil (#54) and Tyleik Williams (#91) DL Under Contract: EDGE: Aiden Hutchinson, Ahmed Hassanein (Futures), Josh Paschal (IR), Chris Smith

This is the fifth in our series of roster analysis by position group for the 2026 offseason leading up to Free Agency and the NFL draft. Today’s focus will be on the OL room, which may very well be the Detroit Lions biggest concern heading into the 2026 offseason. Taylor Decker and Graham Glasgow OL Under Contract: Center: Graham Glasgow (C), Kayode Awosika (C), Seth McLaughlin (C – Futures) Interior OL: Christian Mahogany (G), Tate Ratledge (G), Miles Frazier (G/T), M

In our Monday News & Nuggets post, we mentioned that we had been hearing that Dan Skipper would be joining the Lions Coaching staff in some capacity, and news has broken this morning that is indeed the case. Dan Skipper coaching the East OL at the Shrine Game on 1/27/26 Per a post on X, Rachel Hopmayer of CBS Detroit stated that Skipper had been hired by the lions and will "be molding the next jumbo TEs in no time." It is unclear if that means Skipper will be the Assistant

This weekly segment will be an aggregator of much of the Lions News, nuggets and rumors that have occurred within the last time frame that this was posted. The expectation is that we will publish it weekly and will continue to ramp up the content and evolve it over the coming months. It will focus on Lions Coaches Lions newly promoted TE Coach Steve Oliver Lions Players, Coaches and Team Lions Assistant TE Coach Seth Ryan was hired by Aaron Glenn and the NY Jets to become

This is the fourth in our series of roster analysis by position group for the 2026 offseason leading up to Free Agency and the NFL draft. Today’s focus will be on the WR room, where the Top 3 players are set for the next several years, but depth and special teams play possibly could be upgraded for spots four, five and six. Isaac TeSlaa second career TD reception WRs Under Contract: Amon-Ra St Brown, Jameson Williams, Isaac TeSlaa, Dominic Lovett, Jackson Meeks (Future

This is the third in our series of roster analysis by position group for the 2026 offseason leading up to Free Agency and the NFL draft. Today’s focus will be on the TE room, which has the top two guys under contract for one more season, but lots of questions around their health. The position became a bit of a revolving door at the end of the 2025 season, so the Lions will be looking to add some stability and balance, even though they currently have four players under contra

Now that the All-Star games (sans the HBCU game on 02/11/26) have been completed, Brent had done a review and analysis on all of the information form the practice and games and put together a list of potential Lions targets for each round of the draft. Zion Young - Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images Round 1 (Pick 17): Likely target + pivots few targets for Round 1 played in the SB or SHR bowls. — strategy note – Your Senior Bowl (SB)/Shrine Bowl (SHR) risers mostly profile Day 2–3. At

Weird how a single day can make a huge difference. Yesterday, the majority of the Detroit Lions fans thought that the Lions would be in the market for some DL depth, with the impending Free Agency of seven of their D-line. However, word comes today that both Edge Josh Paschal and DT Levi Onwuzurike had their contracts form 2025 toll due to a quirk in the CBA regarding players on the Non-Football Injury and (N-FI) and Reserve Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) lists. Lions Edg

This is the second in our series of roster analysis by position group for the 2026 offseason leading up to Free Agency and the NFL draft. Today’s focus will be on the RB room, currently the one position with the most stability to it, which could turn volatile really quick depending on how the David Montgomery situation turns out and whether any of the depth guys aren’t what the new OC is looking for. Gibbs and Montgomery with their Alter Egos (NFL/X) RBs Under Contract: Ja