This is the current Detroit Lions Depth Chart (Estimated based on what all the websites state)
It will be interesting whose cut waved and released this pre season. Some guys that started games last season will be gone. Its a great problem to have.
The roster is full! 91 players!
Lions only need to release 19 players by end of preseason.
Update*
Lions Didnt sign International player TE Murtagh due to injury. Sign OT Pircher instead
Could you imagine if we would’ve been able to re-Sign Chark, bring in a legit DT to play next to McNeil, added a quality backup QB and a solid backup veteran corner like Sin or Peters?
Team would be bonkers!
Wish swift wouldn’t have gotten butt hurt over the Gibbs draft pick. We would’ve been solid 1-3.
Chark is not needed. Marvin was just as productive last year.
I agree would love to see a big name DT come in.
And writing was on the wall for swift. A 1-2 punch is good enough. 3rd RB on most teams is a UDFA or a scrap bin player so Reynolds/ Jefferson/ Ibrihim will be a good 3.
Back up QB is over rated. Theres MAYBE 5 backups in the nfl that can win multiple games if the starter goes down. If Goff goes down for multiple games the season is done even with a decent backup.
Corner isnt needed at all now.
Mosely, Sutton, CJGJJr, Branch, Jospeh, Jacobs, Walker, Harris is a very good group.
But Jones is not 6’4" with 4.3 speed. He cannot stretch the field, or at least threaten to stretch the field in the same manner as Chark… which has implications on the offense.
Without Jamo, this team has 0 deep threats which makes St. Brown a little easier to put in bracket coverage.
Jamo’s suspension will hurt the offense’s potential for the first 1/3 of the season imo. Not having Chark as a plan B was understandable, but i think it’s going to bite them hard through October.
I hear what your saying.
But chark and jamo didnt play vs Seattle lions scored 45 points
Didnt play vs chicago scored 31 points.
The offense will be fine. Even if its
St brown, jones jr and Raymond/ Reynolds the first few games
We also started winning a lot once Chark got healthy and involved in the offense. His deep threat really opened up the passing game on short and intermediate routes.
I think/hope we’ll be able to cobble together a similar sort of threat from Gibbs and LaPorta. It will be different since Gibbs will be out of the backfield and LaPorta up the seam, but hopefully it will accomplish the same stuff. Plus a few deep shots to Raymond now and again. Though again he’ll have to do it from the slot rather than outside.
