Monday Morning Rundown: 06/22/26

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.

Jared Goff and Isiah Pacheco at Minicamp  - Photo by Jeff Nguyen/Detroit Lions

Lions Players, Coaches and Team

• Lions posted photos from Minicamp: Day 1 and Day 2.

• Check out our Minicamp Day 1 and Day 2 Recaps from last week

  • Updates on injuries to Branch, Joseph and more

  • Media Sessions with offensive and defensive coaches

  • Dan Campbell Media Sessions both days

  • Media sessions with Terrion Arnold, Derrick Moore, Isiah Pacheco, Isaac TeSlaa and Chuck Clark

  • Observations and Depth Chart lists

• Lions filled out their offseason roster by adding three WRs on the last day of Minicamp. They added UFL players Tay Martin, Lucky Jackson and Tarik Black, the last two fresh off their championship run with Louisville

• WR depth continued to get churned with the recently signed Kyer Duplessis replaced with WR Lawrence Keys

• Jamo bought himself a new house in Metro Detroit somewhere. You can grab Jamo's closing attire for $125

• Detroit Lions annual Youth Summer Camps are underway throughout the state and run through August 6

• Lions received a bit of criticism for passing on Zion Young and Gabe Jacas and trading up for Derrick Moore, but now we may know why Jacas wasn't a target.

• Mitch Morse on Good Morning Football believes the Lions have the most complete team in the NFL on paper

• Hulu has Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Detroit Lions available again to subscribers

• National Writers think that Penei Sewells move to LT and Cade Mays addition are two of the Lions offseason biggest storylines

• Jared Goff is firmly entrenched at #2 on the Lions all-time passing yard list, sitting behind only Stafford

Rumors, Nuggets and Speculation

• Micah's Parson's brother stated that Parson's will miss "upwards of half the season" putting his return to the field after they play the Lions in Week 7 at Ford Field

• The NFL, in an effort to have better officiating, is creating a practice squad of up to 12 officials

• The new CBA with the NFLRA also has the potential to have substandard officials reassigned to the UFL

• The Bears, Vikings and Packers all made similar moves to the Lions churning the bottom of their roster preparing for training Camp.

Things I think are Noteworthy

• Cowabunga Dude! A new pizza joint opened in Sanat Monica

• Kentucky...Kentucky!, has a gas station with a disco bathroom

• Detroit Tigers USA 250 Fourth of July Hat 59FIFTY Fitted hat is pretty cool

• McDonalds is bringing back the fried apple pie starting 6/26 for a limited time for America's 250th

McDonald's Fried Apple Pie coming back on 6/26 for a limited time for America's 250th