Monday Morning Rundown: 08/31/26
Updated: Sep 1
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 Initial Detroit Lions 2025 53-man roster was announced, but it's likely that Brad Holmes is not done yet
Part of the roster cuts included moving five players to Reserve lists, including Mays, Branch and Joseph.
The NFL Detroit Lions Rivalry jersey is here, and it has major Carolina Panther vibes to it continuing the underwhelming response to this entire project
More changes to the Lions roster with RB Raheem Blackshear and WR Cedrick Wilson on Reserve/Injured and signing of DB Jason Taylor and RB Roydell Williams.
Devin Booker and Nike are partnering to drop a new Detroit Lions themed Nike Book 2 shoe coming September 4th and will list for $155.
Jahmyr Gibbs comes in at #9 on the NFLs top 100 list
The Fox Sports writers had Jared Goff at #10 in their top 10 rankings of QBs, seemingly a bit low with some of the guys immediately in front of him
Rumors, Nuggets and Speculation
Packers RB Josh Jacobs was placed on the Commissioners exempt list indefinitely while his legal troubles play out
The Packers also made two trades at the deadline, including finding a new RB
Aaron Donald returned to the Rams for one last go around with Myles Garrett, cementing their status as Super Bowl favorites
Four teams kept four QBs on their rosters at initial cuts, including the Vikings
Things I think are Noteworthy
KFC may win the "worst mashup" award for this abomination of Oreo, mashed potatoes and Chicken...Launched only in China on 8/28
A pivotal storyline form Goodfellas was reincarnated last week in real life involving liquid gold
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