Monday Morning Rundown: 03/30/26

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

• Lions added another new face to the strength staff in Grant Steen

• Detroit with an off-white helmet? Yes, per the Ridell retro Collection and as seen at Pro Sport Zone in Livonia

• Lions sign OL Ben Bartch formerly of the 49ers

• A slew of new Lions have unofficially been assigned their numbers per the goof folks at NFL Jersey Numbers

  • 5 - QB Teddy Bridgewater

  • 8 - WR Greg Dortch

  • 11 - LB Damone Clark

  • 21 - CB Roger McCreary

  • 64 - OC Cade Mays

  • 65 - OC Seth McLaughlin

  • 70 - OL Juice Scruggs

  • 79 - OT Larry Borom

  • 82 - TE Thomas Gordon

  • 83 - TE Tyler Conklin

• The Lions Draft Interactions is up to 158 confirmed meetings

  
  

Rumors, Nuggets and Speculation

• Even though ESPN purchased NFL Network, they plan to keep individual Draft Coverages across all their platforms

• The NFL Annual Meetings are this week in Arizona, and here is the list of Rule changes being voted on

• The NFL is moving forward with onboarding replacement Referees as the stalemate is ongoing with the NFLRA requesting unreasonable salary increases and pushing to keep seniority -based playoff assignments, even as the officiating has declined noticeably.

Mock Draft Season

• Chad Reuter of NFL.com Four Round Mock Draft -1st Utah OT Spencer Fano (13th, Trade with Rams); 2nd Michigan EDGE Derrick Moore

• Field Yates of ESPN has a two-round Mock Draft - 1st Alabama OT Kayden Proctor; 2nd Illinois EDGE Gabe Jacas

• Mike Payton of AtoZ Seven-Round Mock Draft - Trade to 26 1st Miami EDGE Ahkeem Mesidor; Trade up to 40 OT Clemson Blake Miller

• Bucky Brooks at NFL.com has released Mock draft 3.0 - 1st Miami EDGE Ahkeem Mesidor

• Mike Band of next Gen Stats Mock Draft 1.0 - 1st Clemson OT Blake Miller

Things I think are Noteworthy

• I would have thought you had to be armed for this conduct...

• I'm no doctor, but I don't think it should look like that...

• The list of Home Territory Providers for the Detroit tigers 2026 season

• Oh! Right in the testicles! Ouchtown, population you, bro!

• Gimmick? I say bring it on!

• Could the rumored Ocean's 14 movie plot leaked?