{"id":17596,"date":"2025-03-16T14:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=17596"},"modified":"2025-03-16T14:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:21:45","slug":"breaking-news-lions-get-bad-news-as-dan-campbell-shapes-2025-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=17596","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : Lions Get Bad News as Dan Campbell Shapes 2025 Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1242618224-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1242618224-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1242618224-1.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1242618224-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Lions Get Bad News as Dan Campbell Shapes 2025 Team\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Detroit Lions had a very busy free agency week, parting with certain key players to open up some funds and bringing on others to fill gaps in the roster. While it\u2019s certainly a good thing to see Dan Campbell, Aaron Glenn and the Lions being active during the offseason, unlike some teams in the NFL, some of the moves are being met with criticism from NFL analysts and experts alike.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Lions have lost some key players during the offseason that are going to be difficult to replace.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Detroit Lions Get \u2018F\u2019 Grade on Losing Key Player<\/h2>\n<p>The Detroit Lions are trying to come back after the hardship of having 2024 be yet another season where the team didn\u2019t go all the way. Detroit experienced an upset loss against the Washington Commanders in the playoffs on on January 18, and now, they\u2019re hoping to reshape their roster to get back to the playoffs and hopefully further in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>But, a few of the team\u2019s early player losses aren\u2019t good. In a Friday, March 14, piece for A to Z Sports, NFL analyst and expert Mike Payton discusses some of the positive and negative moves the Lions have made in their first week of free agency.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest loss for the Lions, according to Payton, is guard Kevin Zeitler. \u201cThis was the one guy the Lions needed to make sure they kept to keep the offensive line playing at a top level. They couldn\u2019t do it,\u201d he states in the feature. You can\u2019t blame them too much because he wanted to be with family, but maybe you up the offer to keep him here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Payton gives the Lions the dreaded F grade for losing Zeitler, who signed with the Tennessee Titans in what\u2019s being deemed as an \u201cunderrated move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Payton also doesn\u2019t like the Lions losing edge Za\u2019Darius Smith, giving the Lions a D grade on that one. Of the move, Payton states, \u201cOk, if I\u2019m grading this one just by what\u2019s happened after this first, week, I don\u2019t like it a whole lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Payton adds, \u201cFreeing up cash was good, doing nothing with that cash feels like maybe you didn\u2019t need to make this move. Maybe this grade changes over time. We\u2019re just reacting to the first week at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Not All Doom and Gloom in Free Agency Week<\/h2>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry too much, though, because it\u2019s not all negatives for the Lions. When it comes to new team members, signing cornerback D.J. Reed was seen as an A move by Payton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to give some serious kudos to Brad Holmes on this one,\u201d Payton states. \u201cInside one hour, the Lions lost Carlton Davis to the Patriots on a $60 million deal and then turned around and signed Reed to a $48 million deal. Reed is of equal or greater value to the Lions and they got him at a significantly reduced value. Superb work from Holmes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During Reed\u2019s 46 career games with the New York Jets, he had 220 tackles, 32 pass deflections, seven TFLs and two interceptions. He also ended with at least a 70 overall and coverage grade from PFF with the Jets from 2022 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Payton also likes the re-signing of DL Levi Onwuzurike, stating that, \u201cHe had a big year in 2024 and that should continue on. For the Lions to both get him back here and get him at about $15 million less than the projection, what a score.\u201d He gives Detroit an A+ grade for that move.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions are shaping their 2025 team, but they&#8217;ve also lost some key players that could hurt the crew in the long haul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-lions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS : Lions Get Bad News as Dan Campbell Shapes 2025 Team - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=17596\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS : Lions Get Bad News as Dan Campbell Shapes 2025 Team - 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