I always like looking ahead at where the roster is for not just this season, but future seasons. And since the draft is over and the news is slow, I figured now would be a good time to assess where we stand for 2024. Here is who will be here in 2024 if the Lions don’t cut or trade them:
DE: Hutch, Houston (will be ERFA, so he will be back if we want him, Paschal, Cominsky
DT: McNeill, Martin, Onwuzurike, Buggs
LB: Anzalone, Barnes, Rodrigo, Campbell
CB: Sutton, Branch
S: Joseph, Walker, Melifonwu
17 defense
So not counting UDFA’s, we have 31 players under contract for next year who should be big time contributors/starters this year. Add in a few more rookies and FAs next offseason, and resign some guys who perform well this year and we are built for long term success. I think the big glaring hole is still CB. Will be interesting to see how they address it. Re-sign Moseley? Draft? Trade?
I think they’ll 2nd round tender Wright so TE should be set. Although I guess they could opt for a right of refusal tender. Personally I don’t see them getting cute with it over 1.5m.same with Jacobs.
TE we can have same as this season if we want. CB you left out Lucas It will be easier to see what we will need after the final 53…Right now we don’t know who makes it an if they do where on depth chart they seem to be.
Plus we have the cap money to pay anyone we want to keep. If they want to stay.
Hell no they will not tag an OG. No coach ever should with the current rules. OL is considered 1 position when it comes to tags. So you are paying top 5 LT money to an OG if you do…
He wants to stay. Hopefully that means he will take a reasonable offer to stay on this line. He will get more money elsewhere, but will have less fun playing between inferior talent.
Those guys are quality depth. Raymond is the fastest guy on the team until proven otherwise.
Raymond was the only Receiver that played in every game last season.
I thought JRey was signed through next season? I could be wrong.
I guess you could keep 1. Its more a cost stand point.
Next year theres, Williams, St Brown and Green thats it for WR.
My thing is see whose available in FA and the draft. I could see them keeping one. But they will want $5m + per year. For that id like to see whose on the market.
Good point, and I actually think that is a really dumb policy. Guards get paid way less than Tackles. There should be a franchise tag specifically for guards. There is a different tag for DT’s and DE’s for example.