Monday Morning Rundown: 07/27/26
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.
Lions Players, Coaches and Team
The Lions are offering membership to an all-inclusive, members only pregame lounge called the 1934 Club exclusively for Lions Loyal Members (aka season ticket holders.)
Lions place Safeties Brian Branch, Kerby Joseph and TE Ty Conklin on PUP list prior to training camp.
Jared Goff did a quick interview with The Insiders on NFL Network about the outlook on the 2026 season, his new OC and dropped that he is partnering with Little Caesars, likely as a spokesperson.
The Lions are seeking a Senior Graphics Designer for a full-time role in Detroit.
It appears the Lions also hired Brooke Kirchhofer as Talent & Associate Producer role. Interestingly enough, the Lions have also not filled the team reporter role previously held by Tori Petry and Dannie Rogers after reorganizing their in-house staff under the One Pride Productions team, so maybe this is a step in that direction to backfill the role.
Athlon Sports has their X-Factor player list out, and the Lions Rock-Ya Sin was the choice, which I think most of us would agree with.
ESPNs Mike Clay has released follow-up OL rankings and has moved Penei Sewell up to OT 3 and OL 7 (was OT10 & OL17) without any sort of reasoning. His original rankings were trash with Lions fans and media rightly dragging him hard on it, so much so that he quietly correcting them, which says a lot about the mentality of these analytics guys when called out for being completely wrong.
The Lions have released additional "Get to Know" Pick posts including Kendrick Law
Rumors, Nuggets and Speculation
Super Bowl LXII in Atlanta now has a date of 2/13/28
Michigan AD Warde Manual is out by the end of the year after multiple missteps and an internal investigation by the school
Riddell has a new Collector's helmet available in the Riddell Axiom Authentic, which you can pick up in most team stores (they aren't cheap!).
Roger Goodell hasn't worked out a contract extension yet, but it appears to be in the works and should be done in the coming months.
ESPN has started laying off people after the NFL Network merger, with some notable names including controversial on-air personality Ryan Clark and long-time ESPN personality Karl Ravech, NFL reporter Tom Pelissero, Charles Davis, Cam Newton, Bart Scott,
The defending Super Champion Seahawks will be on Hard Knocks this year, starting Aug 4th.
Buffalo has built a unique feature into their new Highmark Stadium that honors the Bills Mafia
Lions Week 5 opponent Arizona Cardinals finally got QB Jacob Brissett to sign a revised contract after he held out all off-season.
Things I think are Noteworthy
The first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday has been released...We are so back
In more movie news, Days of Thunder 2 has reportedly been greenlit and filming to start in 2027 with Tom Cruise reprising his role as Cole Trickle.
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