Episode #230: Lions’ free agency review
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys review the first week of the 2022 NFL free agency period, discussing the Detroit Lions’ approach. Things have been slow, as the organization spent most of their resources re-signing players, but they did make one splash move at wide receiver.
Here are a few relevant articles discussed on this week’s show:
- Brad Holmes’ focusing on re-signings
- Lions contract tracker
- POD Free agency tracker
- WR DJ Chark signed, formerly with Jaguars
- Chark’s contract is for 1 year, $10 million (fully guaranteed)
- Chark turned down other multi-year offers to join Lions’ culture
- TE Garrett Griffen signed, formerly with Saints
- Lions only FA lost: Jalen Reeves-Maybin signed with the Texans
- Who are the best free agents still available?
NFL Free Agency news
- Lots of quarterback movement
- In the division:
- Aaron Rodgers staying in Green Bay, Davante Adams bails for Raiders
- Bears trade Khalil Mack
- Vikings double down on Cousins
Draft talk
- Lions officially have 9 picks in the draft
- Lions’ LB coach Kelvin Sheppard ran Georgia’s LB drills at Pro Day
- Lions’ Holmes and DC Aaron Glenn at Michigan’s pro day
- Michigan’s David Ojabo injured his Achilles, is he worth a flier?
- There’s a ridiculous new trend in mock drafts surrounding the Lions No. 2 pick
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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. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Eric, we're going to do a little free agency review, but there's not much to review. |
| 0:13.4 | Right. |
| 0:14.5 | Yeah, it's been a lot of resignings, and only two players from outside the organization have joined the roster. |
| 0:22.1 | And the roster is filling up quick. |
| 0:25.1 | Yeah, what it's 83? |
| 0:26.6 | No, not it's 73, right? |
| 0:28.4 | Do they have 73? |
| 0:29.2 | It's in the 70s. |
| 0:30.3 | It's actually, yeah, they've got, I think it's 74, actually. |
| 0:36.7 | Actually, it might even more because, geez, they have, no, it's 76. |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah, 76. |
| 0:44.2 | And then when you add their nine draft picks in, that puts them at like 86, right? |
| 0:49.8 | So. |
| 0:50.1 | 76 plus nine is 85. |
| 0:51.8 | Sorry, 77. |
| 0:52.9 | So, but yeah, well, I'm looking at my, uh, 76 plus 9 is 85. Sorry, 77. |
| 0:59.4 | So, but yeah, well, I'm looking at my, I got it. |
| 1:01.0 | And it says 86. |
| 1:02.5 | I had quick math is. |
| 1:03.3 | Sure. |
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