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Getty Images In honor of April Fool’s Day, Wednesday’s PFT Live committed no April Fool’s Day gags. Instead, we had a draft based on the reaction that April Fool’s Day gags are intended to provoke. Specifically, Simms and I did a draft of the stories that we didn’t believe when we first heard...

Getty Images Former Lions safety Don Carey wants to help, and would love nothing more than to be in front of his people. But with much of the country locked down because of the coronavirus outbreak, he’s having to conduct his campaign in a new way. Via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press...

Getty Images Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford is glad to have a backup with some experience again. The fact it’s someone he’s known for years makes it even better. Via Mike O’Hara of the team’s official website, Stafford said he liked the addition of Chase Daniel to their quarterback room...

Getty Images The Lions added another cornerback to their roster on Thursday. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the team has signed former Jets corner Darryl Roberts. It’s a one-year deal and no financial terms have been announced. Roberts was released by the Jets after the new league...

Getty Images J.D. McKissic has 70 catches in his four-year career. Christian McCaffrey had 116 last season. Why is this relevant? McKissic signed with Washington, which now has Ron Rivera as its head coach and Scott Turner as its offensive coordinator. McKissic joined a crowded backfield for...

Getty Images With so many Patriots players leaving this offseason, Duron Harmon became part of the blur. But the now-Lions safety said coach Bill Belichick was up front with him about the reasons why — the need to bring in reinforcements. Via NBCSportsBoston.com, Harmon said on Devin and...

Getty Images Lions wide receiver Marvin Jones is no stranger to prolific scoring days. Jones caught four touchdown passes in a game against the Vikings last season and he also had a four-touchdown game while with the Bengals earlier in his career. Once he gets back on the field for game action...

Getty Images The Lions have signed a free agent wide receiver away from a division rival. Geronimo Allison, who has played the first four years of his career in Green Bay, signed with Detroit today. The 26-year-old Allison had a career-high 34 catches last season, but he also had a career-low...

Getty Images When Eli Manning announced his retirement, he avoided breaking a record that he probably would have broken with another season as a starter: The record for the most losses by a starting quarterback in NFL history. That record currently belongs to Vinny Testaverde, who lost 123...

Getty Images Desmond Trufant signed with the Lions before they traded Darius Slay to the Eagles last week, which sets him up to be compared with Slay in the future as many saw Trufant’s arrival as a trigger to the deal that Slay wanted for a while. Trufant is no stranger to being compared to...

Getty Images The Lions doubled up on depth for their linebacker group on Friday. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that they have signed Reggie Ragland and Justin Rogers of the Detroit News reports that they’ve also added Elijah Lee. Ragland earned a Super Bowl ring with the Chiefs in February...

Getty Images Jamie Collins has left the Patriots twice, once when he was traded to the Browns in 2016 and again this month when he signed with the Lions. But Collins never thought he’d see Tom Brady leave New England. Collins, the linebacker who recently arrived in Detroit, told reporters...

Getty Images Ten years after he became the second pick in the draft, Ndamukong Suh officially is back for a second season with the Buccaneers. Tampa Bay announced the deal on Thursday. Reportedly worth $8 million for one year, Suh gets $1.25 million less than he did in 2019, his first year in...

Getty Images The Lions added some receiver depth Thursday. The team announced the addition of veteran wide receiver Geremy Davis. The 28-year-old Davis spent the last four seasons with the Chargers. He went on injured reserve last November, when they activated Derwin James. In five seasons...

Getty Images Halapoulivaati Vaitai has had quite a month. Vaitai agreed to a five-year, $45 million deal with the Lions early in the negotiating period before the start of the new league year and then greeted a new daughter on Sunday. He called it “a crazy moment” to be in a hospital for...

Getty Images Yes, there’s often a very real difference between the so-called new-money analysis and the valuation of a contract from signing. The top of the cornerback market illustrates this point, based on two recent deals. Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones signed a five-year, $82.5 million...

Getty Images Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford said he’s ready to start football work after last year’s season-ending back injury, but it remains unclear when there will be any football work to do as offseason programs will be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. With that schedule in limbo...

Getty Images The Broncos are putting some money into the punter position. Denver has agreed to a three-year, $7.05 million contract with former Lions punter Sam Martin, Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reports. Martin has been a solid punter in Detroit for the last seven seasons, while the...

Getty Images When the Lions announced that head coach Matt Patricia and General Manager Bob Quinn would return for the 2020 season, word from ownership was that the expectation is that the team will be playoff contenders. The implication that failing to reach that level would negatively impact...

Getty Images Former Steelers assistant coach Woody Widenhofer died Sunday at age 77. “We are saddened to learn of the passing of Woody Widenhofer,” Steelers president Art Rooney II said in a statement. “Woody played an important role coaching our famed Steel Curtain defense when he helped us...