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The Lions’ 2024 Vegas win total is exactly where it should be

28-03-2024 22:00 via prideofdetroit.com

Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports Vegas has set the 2024 Lions’ win total, and it’s exactly where it should be for an intriguing, season-long prop. Last year, when the Detroit Lions were nearly every media head’s darling in the offseason, the team’s win total was set at 9.5 wins—the highest its been set in the franchise’s history according to records from Pro Football Reference—and the team responded by having arguably their most successful season in franchis

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Detroit Lions announce new uniform reveal date

28-03-2024 16:00 via prideofdetroit.com

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports The Lions are getting new uniforms ahead of the 2024 season, and we’ll know what they look like on April 18. Earlier this week at the annual owners meetings in Florida, Detroit Lions President and CEO Rod Wood announced the team would be getting new uniforms ahead of this year’s NFL Draft, but didn’t give a specific date.
“We’ll be rolling them out probably just before the draft,” Wood said on Tuesday of this week. “I think eve

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Why Carlton Davis will finally allow Detroit Lions defense to be itself

28-03-2024 14:15 via prideofdetroit.com

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Dan Campbell explained how Carlton Davis’ addition will allow the Lions defense to finally play like how it wants to.The Detroit Lions have spent the last three years trying to figure out their cornerback situation. They’ve gone through players like Jeff Okudah, Quinton Dunbar, Cameron Sutton, Mike Hughes, and Emmanuel Moseley—among many others—looking for a cornerback who is capable of being a No. 1 and lockdown defen

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Notes: Former All-Pro RB says Lions star Jahmyr Gibbs is next up

28-03-2024 13:00 via prideofdetroit.com

Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Former All-Pro running back Chris Johnson continues to hype up Detroit Lions’ Jahmyr Gibbs. For those of you who can’t remember or were too young back then, let me tell you a little bit about former All-Pro running back Chris Johnson, and how he altered the mode of the every-down back.Back in the day, if you weren’t at least 220 pounds, you could pretty much forget about being a lead-back in the NFL. In that era, teams were handing the ball off t

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Open thread: Is wide receiver a major need for the Detroit Lions?

28-03-2024 11:00 via prideofdetroit.com

Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images Now that Josh Reynolds is headed to Denver, how big of a need is WR for the Detroit Lions?On Wednesday, news broke that former Detroit Lions wide receiver Josh Reynolds is signing a two-year deal with the Denver Broncos worth up to $14 million. According to general manager Brad Holmes, it’s the first and only loss the Lions took in free agency for a player that they were prioritizing to bring back.“Josh Reynolds, he’s one that was part of the

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