From March 1st 2024 to January 16th 2025
The Lions signed 125 Players to the roster.
27 were pre-season only
6 additional were put on season ending IR in the preseason
5 have road the practice squad all season.
2 were cut from the practice squad without playing in a game
85!!! Lions were either on the 53 man or elevated for game day this year.
Which is an absolutely mind blowing figure
I wonder what the average is.
I tried looking.
I think im gonna have to do it manually. Look at snap counts for each team.
I couldn’t find any data otherwise
Not gonna lie, when I saw this title and who posted it, I was expecting a spreadsheet 
I have one but its MASSIVE.
130 x 20.
Its my full roster tracker. (Numbers names, position college draft year FA birthday etc)
I have a problem
You don’t have a problem yet. Now when your spreadsheet contains pictures of their wives, children and pets, then you have gone too far. Immediately go back to the beginning, collect $200 and roll the dice.
Been doing it since 2008.
Hyperlinks to players (used to do a lot of tsn.ca hyperlinks because they tracked the player’s transaction history so well). Now I use hyperlinks to the player’s combine page at nfl.com.
Not tracking their numbers, though. Just the year they were added and capturing as much transaction info as I care to (released, unretained, IR, release from PS and such).
Truth is, in 2008 through 2010 or 11, I’d say I was doing it out of necessity. The Lions didn’t update their roster or transaction pages worth a crap. Now, there really isn’t the need for the info, it’s just a habit and where I enjoy having certain things at my fingertips.
26 on defense shows how many injuries we had.
Typically you have 2 DL, 2 CBs 2 SA 2 LB. That play most snaps. Then rotate in packages with the other 3 spots. Say 2 more DBs. 2 more LBs and 5 more DL.
Thats 8 starters and 9 rotation
That means they had 9 key players GONE.
And absolutely 69 ST players is huge.
Im definitely gonna have to make a comparison spread sheet now for some teams. Damnit more work lol
Heres a chart with all the good teams.
Detroit was decimated on defense
4 more starters and 10 total more than average
What’s really wild. Only 17 on offense
Remove Awosika because of injuries thats only 6 players rotated in
Conditional formatting is your friend …
I excluded the 1 snap Hatten and Fox had on offense because it was a specials teams play that just happened to result in a pass.
But yeah, we had very good luck with health and availability on offense, and abysmal luck on defense.
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