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Getty Images The Dolphins have hired Steve Gregory as a coaching assistant, Field Yates of ESPN reports. Gregory most recently coached the Lions’ secondary in 2020. He reunites with Dolphins head coach Brian Flores after playing for Flores in New England. Gregory, 38, played eight NFL...

Getty Images The Lions hired new General Manager Brad Holmes in January and they’ve parted ways with a couple of former G.M. Bob Quinn‘s colleagues in the personnel department. Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press reports that vice president of player personnel Kyle O’Brien and senior...

Getty Images The Lions created some extra salary cap space Friday. They restructured the contract of linebacker Jamie Collins, Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports. Collins, 32, was entering the second year of a three-year deal. He was scheduled to make $8.8 million in base salary and count...

Getty Images The Lions have moved to hold onto all three of their exclusive rights free agents. The team announced on Thursday that they have tendered fullback Jason Cabinda, punter Jack Fox, and tackle Matt Nelson. The move keeps the players from negotiating with other teams and sets them up...

Getty Images The NFL in 2021 has women who are owners, assistant coaches, on-field officials and front office executives, among other positions. Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp can remember when that was very much not the case. Hamp, whose father William Clay Ford bought the Lions in 1963, said...

Getty Images Cornerback Desmond Trufant is on his way out in Detroit. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the Lions have informed Trufant that he will be released. The move is expected to come at the start of the new league year on March 17. Trufant signed a two-year deal with the Lions as a...

Getty Images Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford requested and received a trade this offseason, wanting to win a ring and thinking it wasn’t going to happen in Detroit. His old teammates completely supported him. That’s the word from Lions tight end T.J. Hockenson, who said every single...

Getty Images Lions head coach Dan Campbell technically cannot discuss Jared Goff until the deal becomes official later this month. But like General Manager Brad Holmes, he can talk around the subject of acquiring the quarterback. During a Wednesday interview on The Pat McAfee Show, Campbell...

Getty Images Veteran wide receiver Tyrell Williams, who was cut by the Raiders last week, was not out of work for long. The Lions have agreed to terms on a one-year contract with Williams, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. The report says Williams will get “up to” $6.2 million, but there’s no...

Getty Images Anyone who has been paying any attention to the NFL in recent weeks knows that, for plenty of veteran players, a major squeeze is coming. They’ll either be asked to take less under threat of termination, or they’ll simply be cut without conversation. The Giants have, as expected...

Getty Images Lions coach Dan Campbell is continuing to hone his tough-guy image even as he acknowledges that he’s not calling all the shots in Detroit. Campbell acknowledged that if he and General Manager Brad Holmes have a disagreement about a roster move, Campbell may have to be the one to...

Getty Images The Lions technically can’t talk about acquiring Jared Goff for another couple of weeks. But if there’s anyone in Detroit who knows Goff well, it’s the club’s General Manager. Brad Holmes was the Rams’ director of college scouting from 2013-2020, which means he was involved with...

Getty Images Though team officials still can’t talk about it for another couple weeks, the Lions have already addressed the quarterback position by agreeing to trade for Jared Goff. But beyond that, the Lions have significant work to do to address a roster that’s lost double-digit games in...

Getty Images Though the transaction won’t become official until the new league year, the Lions have addressed the quarterback position by dealing for Jared Goff. But that doesn’t mean the Lions won’t select another QB at No. 7 overall in April. “I like the crop of quarterbacks that are coming...

Getty Images Lions head coach Dan Campbell said at a Tuesday press conference that wide receiver is “somewhat of a need” for the team as they make plans for the 2021 season and that need could grow in the next couple of weeks. Kenny Golladay, Marvin Jones, Danny Amendola, and Mohamed Sanu are...

Getty Images Minority hiring across the NFL went up in this latest cycle, but there are still only three Black head coaches. Dan Campbell said Tuesday he’s grooming Duce Staley to become another one. Campbell hired Staley to be Detroit’s assistant head coach/running backs coach in January...

Getty Images It should be no surprise that the coach who advocates kneecap-biting (we know it’s not literal, but still) has other views that may not be entirely in the pro football mainstream. Here’s another opinion from Lions coach Dan Campbell that misses the mark. Via Dave Birkett of the...

Getty Images The following are PFT’s top 100 free agents for the start of the 2021 league year. The rankings include prospective unrestricted free agents, as well as released players. The list will be updated as events warrant, with signings, tags and re-signings denoted when announced and/or...

Getty Images Seven teams, nearly a full fourth of the league, changed coaches during or after the 2020 season. Those seven teams requested a total of 58 interviews. Rob Maaddi of the Associated Press has obtained the internal NFL football operations list of 2021 head coach interview requests...

USA TODAY Sports Just over two years ago, Sean McVay and Jared Goff led the Rams to a conference championship and an appearance in Super Bowl LIII. A few months later in June 2019, McVay said he hoped Goff would be “stuck with me for a long time.” Los Angeles tried to guarantee that by...