BOMBSHELL: Detroit Lions’ Taylor Decker Seeks RELEASE—How Will Team RESPOND?

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Detroit Lions face seismic change as Taylor Decker requests his release just days before NFL free agency, ending a decade-long run as the team's anchor at left tackle. With Decker and David Montgomery both seeking exits, is the vaunted Lions locker room culture showing cracks—and how will Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes respond to these leader departures? Matt Dery breaks down the immediate ripple effects for Detroit’s offensive line, spotlighting Penei Sewell’s potential move to left tackle and urgent holes at right tackle and guard. The episode explores replacement options in free agency, 2024 draft strategies, and the likelihood of splash signings amid tight cap space. With new uncertainty looming for Jared Goff’s blind side and key veterans gone, listeners are left to ponder: can the Lions reload and remain contenders, or is their NFC window suddenly at risk?

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0:00.0	All right, Taylor Decker and the Lions divorced.
0:09.0	You are Locked on Lions, your daily Detroit Lions podcast.
0:16.2	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:22.9	Welcome and everybody on a Friday edition of Locked-on Lions, Locked-on Podcast Network,
0:27.3	the number one sports podcast network, Matt Derry with you on a Friday, March 6th,
0:31.9	and to a freaking weekend and Saturday, March the 7th, we are just three days from NFL
0:36.9	free agency, and there's a free agent left
0:39.0	tackle available. Taylor Decker has told the Lions pay cut, pay schmutt. I'm out. Release me.
0:47.7	We've got the very latest on Taylor Decker's 10 years and out in Detroit coming up momentarily
0:53.9	here on Locked on Lions. I want to talk
0:56.0	about how this affects the Lions culture. I want to talk about possible replacements at tackle
1:01.2	for Decker at left tackle. That includes the Lions right tackle. We got to prepare you for Monday.
1:07.4	Free agency is coming. Monday at noon. All of that today, right here on a Friday edition of
1:12.7	Lockdown Lions. Today's episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the GameTime app,
1:17.5	create an account. Use the code Lockdown for $20 off your first purchase. All right. So today,
1:24.6	the bombshell dropped on Instagram from lions left tackle veteran and team captain
1:32.3	taylor decker who announced on his i g on the gram on his social media that he is requested to be
1:40.1	released by the lions quote from de from Decker, things change. 145 games started, three playoff
1:49.1	appearances, two division titles, a decade carrying the shield. I fully intended to do it once
1:54.1	again, but my time as a lion is coming to an end. In the week since notifying the team of
1:59.2	my return, there have been numerous discussions,
2:01.3	many of which were surprised to me, and we could not find common ground. Therefore, I decided
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