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• 3 ways the NIL era is changing Detroit Lions’ NFL Draft process

  21-04-2025 17:00 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Mandi Wright / USA TODAY NETWORK The Detroit Lions have admitted the NIL era has changed how they approach the NFL Draft. Here’s how it could impact the 2025 NFL Draft.The Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) era in college football has been earth-shattering in how the NCAA operates, but it also has a profound impact on how NFL teams approach the draft. With college players no able to profit off their likeness and make millions of dollars before they even enter the NFL, it has a ripple effect a
  
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• Detroit Lions sign defensive end from rookie minicamp tryouts

  13-05-2025 22:49 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images The Detroit Lions have signed UDFA defensive end Keith Cooper Jr.On Monday, the Detroit Lions announced they had signed three players from rookie minicamp tryouts: tight end Luke Deal, wide receiver Malik Taylor, and defensive lineman Raequan Williams. Tuesday, they announced they’ve added one more.
  Undrafted rookie defensive lineman Keith Cooper Jr. has signed with the Lions and is now part of the 53-man roster.Cooper was initially reported as a UDFA sign
  
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• Notes: Lions make list of top matchups on the 2025 NFL schedule

  13-05-2025 17:30 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images The people are yet again excited to see what the Lions are made of. As football fans gear up for the 2025 NFL schedule release Wednesday, several media outlets are selecting their top must-see games of the season.
  NFL.com’s Kevin Patra ranked the matchup between the Detroit Lions at the Philadelphia Eagles as his second-most anticipated game of the year.
  “It’s the matchup we didn’t get last postseason. The Lions and the Eagles were the
  
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• Predicting the Detroit Lions 2025 schedule release

  13-05-2025 16:15 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images We break down notes from rookie minicamp and give our predictions and desires for the 2025 Detroit Lions schedule. NFL schedule release is a funny thing, being released in spurts and fits, but we all wait for it because it means preparing for trips and speculating on the nature of a season. It’s not about who, it’s the when that matters in it all. With just a couple days to go, we’re going to speculate, and we’ll hit notes about Detroi
  
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• All the Detroit Lions 2025 schedule news, leaks, rumors in one place

  13-05-2025 15:37 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty Images All of the 2025 NFL schedule release news, rumors, and dates for the Detroit Lions.We’ll soon know the entirety of the Detroit Lions’ 2025 schedule. This week, the NFL is rolling out the schedule with leaks and news every day, culminating in the full release at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 14.When it comes to the Lions, we already know their 2025 opponents. That is no surprise for anyone. They play the NFC North twice, the NFC East, the AFC North, and
  
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• NFL schedule rumors 2025: ‘Every network wants the Lions’

  13-05-2025 15:30 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images According to Joe Buck, every television network wants a piece of the Detroit Lions for the 2025 NFL schedule.On Tuesday morning, ABC’s “Good Morning America” dropped the latest 2025 NFL schedule news. With the help of announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman in studio, they announced that the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles will face off on “Monday Night Football” in Week 10 of the season.But after that an
  
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• Detroit Lions 2025 Thanksgiving opponent down to 6 candidates

  13-05-2025 13:30 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by Jorge Lemus/NurPhoto via Getty Images With another NFL schedule leak, the Detroit Lions’ possible opponents on Thanksgiving is down to six teams.The Detroit Lions will host their 86th Thanksgiving Day classic, hoping to improve their overall record on the holiday of 38-45-2.But before we can start predicting wins and losses, we need to know who their opponent will be on Thanksgiving. This year, the Lions host eight different teams at Ford Field for the 2025 NFL season: the Bears,
  
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• Open thread: Who should be the Detroit Lions’ Week 18 opponent?

  13-05-2025 12:24 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Which team should the Detroit Lions close out their 2025 NFL schedule with?The last game of the regular season can sometimes mean everything for a team. Last year, the Detroit Lions won the division and the NFC’s one seed in a huge game against the Minnesota Vikings. While that one seed didn’t end up being as handy as you’d think in the playoffs, it was still one of the biggest regular season victories in franchise history.That’s al
  
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• Lions announce return of behind-the-scenes draft video in hilarious way

  13-05-2025 02:53 via prideofdetroit.com
  Kirby Lee-Imagn Images “Inside the Den” is coming back to give a behind-the-scenes look at the Detroit Lions’ 2025 NFL Draft.The Detroit Lions documentary “Inside the Den” has become a wildly popular series of videos for fans. The inside look at how the Lions franchise operates gives a unique perspective of the players, coaches, and administration in ways that felt impossible under previous, less transparent regimes.The most popular episodes of “Inside the Den
  
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• Detroit Lions sign 3 players from rookie minicamp tryouts

  12-05-2025 22:41 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by John Byrum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Detroit Lions made four roster moves following 2025 rookie mini-camp. The Detroit Lions roster is officially up to 90 players. On Monday, the team announced they had signed three players who were at rookie minicamp as tryout players over the weekend, releasing another. Tight end Luke Deal, wide receiver Malik Taylor, and defensive lineman Raequan Williams are all now officially part of the team. In order to make room for those players, the
  
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• Aidan Hutchinson spotted at Lions offseason workouts for first time

  12-05-2025 21:42 via prideofdetroit.com
  Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images For the first time this offseason, Aidan Hutchinson was spotted at the Detroit Lions’ offseason program.For a few weeks now, the Detroit Lions have been posting photo galleries of daily offseason workouts, but there has been one noticeable absence. Defensive end Aidan Hutchinson hadn’t shown up in a single photo gallery since Detroit started their offseason program on April 22. But for Monday’s gallery (May 12), Hutchinson was front and center as the L
  
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• Aaron Glenn talks Dan Campbell, daily Jameson Williams visits

  12-05-2025 20:00 via prideofdetroit.com
  Kirby Lee-Imagn Images Aaron Glenn talked about how Dan Campbell and daily visits with Jameson Williams helped prepare him for being a head coach.This past weekend, Aaron Glenn ran his first-ever rookie minicamp. The former Detroit Lions defensive coordinator turned New York Jets coach is just beginning to lay the foundation for what he hopes will be a new era of successful Jets football.
  On Saturday, Glenn met with the New York media, and immediately credited Lions coach Dan Campbell for having
  
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• Detroit Lions will NOT play in NFL season opener vs. Eagles

  12-05-2025 13:42 via prideofdetroit.com
  The Philadelphia Eagles will open the 2025 season against the Dallas Cowboys, not the Detroit Lions.The first game of the 2025 NFL schedule has been released. We always knew that the Philadelphia Eagles would open the season on Thursday night at home—as the league’s Super Bowl champions. However, their opponent hadn’t been revealed until Monday morning.On Monday, it was announced the Eagles will open the season against the Dallas Cowboys.
  There was a good chance the Detroit Li
  
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• Open thread: How many primetime games will the Lions have in 2025?

  12-05-2025 13:30 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images How many primetime games will the Detroit Lions have in 2025? Are the Detroit Lions ready for another season in the national spotlight?
  Last season, the Lions played seven primetime games. They played on “Sunday Night Football” against the Los Angeles Rams (Week 1), Houston Texans (Week 10), and Minnesota Vikings (Week 18). They had a pair of back-to-back Thursday games in Week 13 and Week 14, the first of which was the annual Thanksgiving Day gam
  
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• 2025 Detroit Lions NFL schedule: When to expect leaks, full release

  12-05-2025 12:45 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images Everything you need to know about the 2025 NFL schedule release and what it means for the Detroit Lions.The NFL schedule release has become one of the bigger days of the offseason. But the NFL is apparently no longer happy with the schedule release being a single moment on a single day. So this year, the NFL has a full week of scheduled releases of games for the 2025 season.When it comes to the Detroit Lions, we already know the opponents for all 17 games. But th
  
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• Lions GM Brad Holmes delivers powerful speech at his alma mater

  11-05-2025 17:13 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Kimberly P. Mitchell / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes delivered a powerful speech at his alma mater: North Carolina A&T State.Over the weekend, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes went back to his roots. He traveled back to his alma mater North Carolina A&T State University to deliver the commencement speech to the graduating class.You can see a short clip of it—courtesy of the Greensboro News & Record—via YouTube or bel
  
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• NotesL D.J. Reed thrilled to be playing with 2 elite Lions safeties

  11-05-2025 16:00 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by Ryan Kang/Getty Images Lions’ cornerback D.J. Reed went to Twitter to tell people how excited he is to be playing with safeties Kerby Joseph and Brian Branch.Detroit Lions’ cornerback D.J. Reed is no stranger to playing in a talented secondary. Originally drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 2018, Reed spent two years in Seattle, and the last three seasons of his career with the New York Jets.
  Reed now joins a talented and young secondary in Detroit, and judging by a few re
  
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• Notes: D.J. Reed thrilled to be playing with 2 elite Lions safeties

  11-05-2025 16:00 via prideofdetroit.com
  Photo by Ryan Kang/Getty Images Lions’ cornerback D.J. Reed went to Twitter to tell people how excited he is to be playing with safeties Kerby Joseph and Brian Branch.Detroit Lions’ cornerback D.J. Reed is no stranger to playing in a talented secondary. Originally drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 2018, Reed spent two years in Seattle, and the last three seasons of his career with the New York Jets.
  Reed now joins a talented and young secondary in Detroit, and judging by a few re
  
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• Lions News: Detroit tops 2025 NFL running back rankings

  10-05-2025 18:00 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Photo by Mike Mulholland/Getty Images Sonic and Knuckles are the cream of the top. The title for best running back room in the league goes to the Detroit Lions, per one CBS Sports analyst.
  Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery, nicknamed Sonic and Knuckles, rushed for a combined 2,000+ yards and 25 touchdowns last season, cementing themselves as the best running back duo in the NFL.
  “While Montgomery is the power to this backfield, Gibbs is the lightning and is just now grasping the peak of hi
  
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• Why Ahmed Hassanein does not count against Detroit Lions roster... yet

  10-05-2025 14:30 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Detroit Lions 6th-round pick Ahmed Hassanein doesn’t count against the roster due to a little-known rule.On Friday, the Detroit Lions announced they had signed four of their seven drafted players from the 2025 NFL Draft. One of those players was defensive end Ahmed Hassanein, the first Egyptian-native player to have ever been drafted in the NFL.On the NFL’s transaction list for Friday, Hassanein showed up as a roster exemption, as an int
  
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• Open thread: Which Lions rookie had the most encouraging debut in minicamp?

  10-05-2025 13:30 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Our selections for most encouraging performances from Detroit Lions rookie minicamp.First impressions aren’t everything, but they are something.
  On Friday, the 2025 Detroit Lions rookie class took the field for the first of three rookie minicamp practices. That’s the only practice we’ll get to see from a media standpoint, so that will be our lasting impression of this rookie class until they take the field with the veterans during
  
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• Detroit Lions rookie minicamp observations: Notes on each draft pick

  09-05-2025 21:15 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Breaking down the Detroit Lions’ first rookie minicamp of 2025 and how each draft pick performed.The Detroit Lions rookie class took the field on Friday morning for the first of three rookie minicamp practices. This was the only of the three that will be opened to the media, so I took as detailed notes as I possibly could.
  Here are my biggest takeaways from practice, particularly with Detroit’s seven 2025 draft picks.Note: For a full list of parti
  
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• Detroit Lions first-round pick Tyleik Williams limited in rookie minicamp

  09-05-2025 20:30 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Kirby Lee-Imagn Images Detroit Lions rookie defensive tackle Tyleik Williams was limited in his first action, as part of the team’s plan for the first-round pick.Detroit Lions first-round pick Tyleik Williams was limited in his first NFL action on the opening day of rookie minicamp. When the team opened up with 11-on-11 walkthroughs, Williams was given limited reps at nose tackle. Then, when the team moved to individual drills, Williams worked one-on-one with a trainer on the hill at the b
  
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• Lions rookie minicamp: Tate Ratledge getting early center looks

  09-05-2025 19:36 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Photo by Jeffrey Vest/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Detroit Lions second-round pick Tate Ratledge is already getting significant looks at center.On Friday morning, Detroit Lions assistant general manager Ray Agnew mentioned that he was excited about second-round pick Tate Ratledge’s versatility on the interior offensive line.“The first thing you see: this is a big man when you see him. He’s long, tall, big man. But you love the versatility of the player. He can play multiple
  
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• Former Detroit Lions WR trying out for New Orleans Saints

  09-05-2025 16:30 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images After nearly two season with the Detroit Lions, Donovan Peoples-Jones is getting a new opportunity with the New Orleans Saints.While the Detroit Lions kick off rookie minicamp this weekend, one former Lions receiver is trying out for another team.Donovan Peoples-Jones will participate in New Orleans Saints rookie minicamp as one of 16 tryout players. The Saints receiver room currently consists of Chris Olave, Brandin Cooks, Cedrick Wilson Jr., and Rashid Shahe
  
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• Detroit Lions sign 10 UDFAs, announce rookie minicamp tryout list

  09-05-2025 15:24 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Lenny Padilla/Sentinel Contributor / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The Detroit Lions officially announced their 2025 UDFA class and released the list of players trying out during rookie minicamp. With the Detroit Lions rookie minicamp beginning on Friday, the team officially announced the list of undrafted rookies that were signed following the 2025 NFL Draft. We have been keeping a tracker of the Lions' reported 2025 UDFA signings and even broke down the details of the 10 players reported
  
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• Detroit Lions reveal jersey numbers for 2025 NFL Draft class, UDFAs

  09-05-2025 14:52 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Ryan Garza / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images A look at the jersey numbers for the Detroit Lions’ 2025 draft picks and UDFAs.As the Detroit Lions prepare to start rookie minicamp this weekend, the team revealed initial jersey numbers for their entire class of seven NFL Draft picks and their 10 undrafted rookie class (UDFAs). I say initial because it’s important to remember that rookies often change their jersey number once the roster is trimmed from 90 to 53 players. Right now, the
  
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• Open thread: Should the Lions try to sign Jadeveon Clowney?

  09-05-2025 14:00 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images Do you think the Lions should try and sign defensive end Jadeveon Clowney now that he is a free agent? For a while now, many people around NFL circles have had only a few questions for Detroit Lions’ general manager Brad Holmes. After all, with one of the most complete and talented rosters in the NFL, there isn’t really much to pick apart.
  However, one specific area that people have been wondering about for some time is the defensive end position opposite
  
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• Detroit Lions rookie minicamp preview: 5 things to watch

  09-05-2025 13:15 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images Detroit Lions rookie minicamp begins Friday. Here are five things to watch for.The Detroit Lions open up their set of three rookie minicamp practices on Friday morning. It will be the first opportunity for both the media and Lions coaches to see the 2025 NFL Draft class—plus the 11 reported UDFA signings—in action at Allen Park.Here are five things I’ll be keeping an eye out for during Friday’s practice.How will the Lions be using Isaac Te
  
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• 5 things to know about Lions 7th-round pick Dominic Lovett

  08-05-2025 15:30 via prideofdetroit.com
  
  Dale Zanine-Imagn Images A dive deep into everything you should know about Detroit Lions 7th-round pick WR Dominic Lovett.We’ve come to the end of the Detroit Lions’ 2025 draft class when it comes to our “5 things to know” series. Before we get into Lions seventh-round pick Dominic Lovett, make sure you catch up on the series below.
  Previously:5 things to know about Tyleik Williams
  5 things to know about Tate Ratledge
  5 things to know about Isaac TeSlaa
  5 things to know a
  
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