5 days ago
About a week before he was arrested for the first time, Titus Young happened to be on the same flight from Miami to Detroit as Lions linebacker and former teammate Stephen Tulloch.
13 days ago
The Detroit Lions have signed their top draft pick, defensive end Ziggy Ansah.
22 days ago
The Detroit Lions are giving a Norwegian Internet kicking sensation a shot to make the team.
67 days ago
Still, the Lions took a bit of a gamble in free agency, fortifying their roster from the outside in and leaving their offensive and defensive lines as their biggest question marks going forward.
68 days ago
"But Avril, who thanked the Lions for a chance to play in the NFL, told SiriusXM Radio on Friday that very little communication took place.
69 days ago
On the day the world got a new pope, the Detroit Lions got a new running back.
69 days ago
The Lions released Young after the Super Bowl and have re-signed just two of their free agent defensive starters: Houston and Levy.
69 days ago
Detroit Lions offensive tackle Jeff Backus informed the team on Thursday that he intends to retire after 12 NFL seasons.
69 days ago
Avril comes to the Pacific Northwest from Detroit where he had spent his entire five-year career after being selected by the Lions in the third round of the 2008 draft.
70 days ago
Bush, the Lions' biggest free-agent signing since luring Damien Woody away from the Super Bowl champion Patriots in 2004, is coming off the two most productive rushing seasons of his career.
70 days ago
The Detroit Lions announced some good news.
70 days ago
It's football, but to use a baseball analogy, the Detroit Lions went 3-for-3 on Wednesday, with a couple home runs.
70 days ago
The Lions haven't been able to count on 2010 first-round draft pick Jahvid Best, whose career is in doubt because of concussion issues.
70 days ago
The Detroit Lions signed a pair of new players in safety Glover Quin and defensive tackle Jason Jones on Wednesday, while also retaining cornerback Chris Houston with a multi-year contract.
71 days ago
Houston, 28, started all 14 games in which he played last season, his third with the Lions, and finished with 56 tackles, two interceptions and two forced fumbles.
74 days ago
It's highly unlikely the Lions will work out a new deal with quarterback Matthew Stafford to free up cap space by the start of the signing period at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
74 days ago
"Delmas, who missed eight games last season after August surgery to relieve tendinitis in his left knee, said the Lions have been trying to line up one final checkup for a week.
74 days ago
The Lions need a running back to replace Jahvid Best, and if they manage to convince Reggie Bush to come to Detroit, one of Bush's former teammates said they'll do themselves one better.
83 days ago
The Lions weren't ahead until the first minute of the second half when Lucas, the reigning Big Ten Player of the Week, was fouled on the wing by Noga as she swished a 3-pointer.
84 days ago
"The Lions have a big need at cornerback with starters Chris Houston and Jacob Lacey headed for unrestricted free agency and seriously might consider Milliner with the No. 5 overall pick.
89 days ago
"Mayhew said the door "is shut" on Young ever playing for the Lions again, but he said Young's problems won't change the way the team evaluates prospects with troubled pasts leading up to the draft.
90 days ago
"He flashed enough highs that that gives us optimism that he can, but he also had enough inconsistencies to say that he's not there yet," Lions coach Jim Schwartz said Thursday at the NFL combine.
91 days ago
That tactic isn't terribly attractive and doesn't stimulate much talk, but Mayhew and Schwartz are passed the point in their Lions' careers where talk means anything.
97 days ago
The Lions have two young interior linemen they're high on: Bill Nagy, whom they claimed off waivers from Dallas last year, and Rodney Austin, a 2012 undrafted free agent.
104 days ago
Titus Young's trade value was so low when the Lions placed him on waivers this week that general manager Martin Mayhew said he didn't even try to move him to another team.
