Episode #107: Camp Battles
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Well over a week has passed since the draft and things are settling down across the NFL. That gives Erik and Joe the opportunity to discuss the current roster construction and the impending battles to look forward to, or lament, in training camp.
- LT Taylor Decker had his 5th year option picked up
- NT Darius Kilgo joins the team after being an understudy in Tennessee
- Ziggy Ansah says so long, and signs with the Seattle Seahawks
- Rookie mini-camp dates are announced and will begin Friday (5/10)
- OTAs Phase 3 next week
- Houston will host the Lions during Week 2 of the preseason for joint practices
- Matthew Stafford has an obvious defender in Rod Wood
- Check out Erik’s latest Lions Roster Stack: Post-NFL Draft
- Scott Warheit delivered a post-draft 53-man roster projection
- The Lions have a multitude of wide open position battles that need to be discussed
- A position by position breakdown of who has the early lead for starting roles at right guard, WILL linebacker, outside cornerback and third safety
- What players could end up in potential backend of the roster battles
- Special Thanks to Storm Gypsy for the 5-star review!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Joe Kenya. With me as always is Eric Schillett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:10.2 | And this is Lions Wire's official Lions podcast. Eric, |
| 0:14.1 | draft is coming on. Some people are still upset, but, you know, slowly getting over it. |
| 0:20.3 | That's fine. |
| 0:21.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.4 | Weird to talk about a bunch of interesting moves, really. |
| 0:32.3 | Now it's housekeeping for the team as they start signing all the rookies and some other free agents. |
| 0:34.9 | So we'll first start with the roster news. |
| 0:38.4 | They signed three rookies headlined by T.J. Hawkinsinson. Yeah, so all the rookies, if you're drafted, you get a four-year contract. If you're |
| 0:44.5 | undrafted, you get a three-year contract, and then the team holds a fourth-year option in a |
| 0:51.5 | restricted free agency form. But for all the drafted players, they now have, they all get four-year contracts, and then |
| 0:58.0 | for the first-round player, you get a fifth-year option as well. |
| 1:03.6 | And we'll talk about that in the second. |
| 1:05.4 | And that's based on the team, a team decision. |
| 1:09.0 | So Hawkinson gets a four-year deal with a fifth-year option, |
| 1:12.4 | and it's really kind of interesting how the fifth-year options work. So Hawkinson got a contract |
| 1:17.8 | today. Tavai got his contract today. Oh, geez. Amani or Warrier. Thank you. Odi-Woree |
| 1:26.6 | Warié signed his contract today. |
| 1:28.6 | Those are the three guys that are under contract. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm expecting more. |
| 1:33.1 | Yeah, they'll all sign eventually. |
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