Episode #229: Combine review and Free Agency preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys review the 2022 NFL Combine and look ahead to the start of free agency. The fellas go position by position and examine the top performances from the Combine, identifying players that the Detroit Lions will likely be interested in. They also look ahead to next week’s opening of free agency, discussing positional needs, priorities, and favorite free agents they’d like to see the Lions target.
Here are a few relevant articles discussed on this week’s show:
Roster moves
- Lions release EDGE Trey Flowers, clearing $10.4 million in cap space
- Lions re-sign WR Josh Reynolds to a 2-year contract
- Lions tender 13 players with ERFA contracts
- Lions re-sign C Ryan MCCollum, EDGE Rashod Berry
- 2022 Lions contract tracker
- With $8 M in adjustments, the Lions now have $36 M in salary cap space
Combine Standouts
- 8 quarterback standouts
- 10 running back standouts
- 15 wide receiver standouts
- 8 tight end standouts
- 7 offensive linemen standouts
- 8 interior defensive line standouts
- 12 edge rusher standouts
- 8 linebacker standouts
- 12 Cornerback standouts
- 8 safety standouts
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Eric, you know, right now we're headed into the NCAA tournament for basketball, right? |
| 0:15.0 | So that should be kind of taking over the sports landscape. |
| 0:19.0 | You know, I've been watching some of these games, |
| 0:21.0 | and you forget about the majesty of March Madness, |
| 0:24.2 | with all the game winning shots and all that. |
| 0:26.9 | But this is not a college basketball podcast. |
| 0:30.5 | The only thing I wanted to mention is it still doesn't matter |
| 0:33.2 | because the NFL is still king. |
| 0:34.8 | You know, all these trades, you know, everything. |
| 0:37.1 | Like, it's still, the NFL still dominates, know, all these trades, you know, everything. Like it's still, |
| 0:37.9 | the NFL still dominates, you know, when it, when it comes to all of our sports. But, and that's |
| 0:43.9 | what we're here for. We're going to talk about, uh, free agency. We're going to talk about a little bit |
| 0:48.7 | of the combine results. We're going to start right off the bat, though. The big news that everybody |
| 0:53.3 | knows already is that Trey Flowers hasn't been released yet, |
| 0:57.1 | but he will be released at the beginning of the new year. |
| 1:00.9 | And that's got big cap implications. |
| 1:03.2 | And that's going to help us lead into our whole free agency discussion. |
| 1:06.5 | So I've known, you know, you have the details, |
| 1:10.1 | but I've known that once we cut |
| 1:11.3 | Trey Flowers, we got a bunch of money. |
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