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USA TODAY Sports Defensive tackle Nick Williams is in his first season with the Lions, but he spent the last two seasons with the Bears so he has a good working knowledge of how the NFC North stacks up. He’d like to shake that up this season. Williams said that he and his teammates “know it’s...

Getty Images The Bears have joined several other NFL teams in altering their practice schedule on Thursday. Practice was set to begin at 9:20 a.m. CT, but the team informed media members that they would not be taking the field at that time. As a result, media members who were at Halas Hall for...

Getty Images The list of teams officially canceling practice on Thursday has grown to three. Per multiple reports, the Jets will not practice today, joining Washington and the Colts. More teams undoubtedly will follow a trend that began two days ago with the Lions canceling practice, two days...

Getty Images The Lions are making a change to their defensive line group on Thursday. The team announced the signing of defensive tackle Kevin Wilkins. Defensive tackle Olive Sagapolu was waived to make room for Wilkins on the 80-man roster. Wilkins was undrafted out of Rutgers in 2019 and...

Getty Images The NBA has managed to navigate the coronavirus, thanks to a hard bubble that has held up well in Orlando. That bubble, however, is on the verge of bursting. If it happens, it will be due not to COVID-19 but to the recent shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, by police in...

Getty Images The Lions canceled practice Tuesday following a discussion about what they could do in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Bears released a statement after their coach and players addressed it privately and publicly. “The Chicago Bears are...

Getty Images In recent days, a pair of Steelers veterans (cornerback Joe Haden and tight end Eric Ebron) have declared that rookie receiver Chase Claypool will be an all-caps “PROBLEM” in 2020. So which players league-wide will fall into that category? Simms and I did a Tuesday PFT Live draft...

Getty Images The Lions canceled practice Tuesday, after a discussion about what they could do in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. “The Detroit Lions are going to make a stand that this is not OK,” safety Duron Harmon said, via Kyle Meinke of MLive.com. “I want...

Getty Images Jamal Agnew played cornerback in college and for his first three years in the NFL, but the Lions have always known he had a knack for making plays with the ball in his hands, thanks to his solid work returning kicks. Now they want to see what Agnew can do with the ball in his hands...

Getty Images The Ravens were hoping to have fans at M&T Bank Stadium when the open the season against the Browns on September 13, but that won’t be the case. The team announced on Monday that they will not have any fans in attendance for the “initial part” of the 2020 season. There’s no word...

Getty Images Defensive end Will Clarke is back in the NFL. Clarke was out of the league last season after being released by the Buccaneers, but he’ll have a chance to make the cut in Detroit. The Lions announced Clarke’s signing on Sunday. Clarke was a 2014 third-round pick by the Bengals and...

Getty Images With the regular season fast approaching, free agent defensive end Ziggy Ansah remains unsigned and is trying to drum up interest. Toward that end, Ansah sent a video to NFL teams of himself working out and appearing to be in good shape, according to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN. The...

Getty Images Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford and his wife Kelly are giving back to their alma mater. The Staffords announced a $1.5 million pledge to the University of Georgia. Matthew Stafford was at Georgia from 2006 to 2008 and Kelly Stafford was a cheerleader at the school. “Kelly and...

Getty Images The Lions have announced that there won’t be any fans at Ford Field until November at the earliest. They will be hosting the Bears in Week One and the Saints in Week Four, but no fans will be in attendance for those contests. Their next home game is November 1 against the Colts...

Getty Images The Eagles added a wide receiver to the roster on Thursday. The team announced that they claimed Travis Fulgham off of waivers. Fulgham was dropped by the Packers on Wednesday after they activated players from the reserve/COVID-19 list. It was a short stay in Green Bay for...

Getty Images The Lions brought back a couple of known commodities, after putting a player on injured reserve. According to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, the Lions are bringing back wide receiver Chris Lacy and running back Wes Hills. They’re also putting rookie defensive tackle...

Getty Images Former first-round pick Joshua Garnett was one of five offensive linemen to workout for the Washington Football Team on Wednesday. Garnett – the 28th overall pick of the 2016 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers – was released by the Detroit Lions last week. He signed with the...

Getty Images After spending three years together with the Detroit Lions, defensive line coach Kris Kocurek and defensive end Kerry Hyder are thrilled to be reunited with the San Francisco 49ers. According to Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle, there’s a tremendous amount of respect...

Getty Images Last year, former Lions receiver Calvin Johnson made clear the terms for rebuilding the bridge between player and team: Refund the signing bonus money they made him repay when he retired. The team has yet to refund the refunded $1.6 million, which means that things have gotten no...

Getty Images Five years ago today, former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer shot himself in the head in a suicide attempt. Kramer survived, but brain damage left him unable to process complex decisions like managing the millions of dollars he earned in his playing career. And now a woman who married...