{"id":27654,"date":"2025-07-06T23:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=27654"},"modified":"2025-07-06T23:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:10:57","slug":"new-lions-player-predicted-to-sabotage-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=27654","title":{"rendered":"New Lions Player Predicted to &#8216;Sabotage&#8217; the 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\/07\/GettyImages-2194634171-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2194634171-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2194634171-1.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2194634171-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"New Lions Player Predicted to 'Sabotage' the Team\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sabotage&#8221; is only a good word in the context of a Beastie Boys song, but one Detroit Lions player is being predicted to sabotage the team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSabotage\u201d is a strong and negative word, unless, of course, it\u2019s in the context of a Beastie Boys song. But, we\u2019re not talking about the Beastie Boys here. We\u2019re discussing the Detroit Lions and the team\u2019s upcoming 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Lions are looking fairly solid heading into the new season, but there are certainly some question marks for the team. Mainly, they have an entirely new coaching staff, so it will likely take some time for quarterback Jared Goff and the crew to get used to their new leaders. Hopefully there aren\u2019t too many growing pains, but one can never be sure.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions have done some musical chairs during the offseason, as have most teams in the NFL, and brought in some players while parting with others. Now, it\u2019s possible that one addition to the team could be a problem for the Lions in the long run. Hopefully that\u2019s not the case, but there is a little alarm sounding about this particular player.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Fresh Lions Addition Could Be a Problem<\/h2>\n<p>The Detroit Lions went into the offseason with some troubling issues, including losing Frank Ragnow to retirement and both offensive coordinator Ben Johnson and defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn to new gigs. But, they\u2019ve also had some good news, in that Aidan Hutchinson should be back from his season-ending injury last season, and that will be a huge boost to the team\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>During the offseason, the Lions also inked former New York Jets cornerback D.J. Reed to a three-year, $48 million contract during free agency. But, in a piece published by Joe Summers on Sunday, July 6, for Detroit Rock City, he says that \u201cReed may accidentally wind up sabotaging the team from within.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before you go nuts with that assertion, let Summers explain. \u201cThis isn\u2019t so much an indictment of Reed, who\u00a0ranked 42nd out of 222 qualified cornerbacks at Pro Football Focus last season,\u201d he notes. \u201cRather, it\u2019s a cautionary tale about the nature of the position and how quickly primes can fade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From there, Summers notes that Reed will turn 29 this season, which is usually the time when corners start going down in their numbers. \u201cWe can look to players like former Kansas City Chiefs star and current struggling Tennessee Titan L\u2019Jarius Sneed as an example,\u201d he says. \u201cThough Reed only gave up an 87.1 passer rating when targeted in coverage, that was his worst mark since 2019. He might still be an excellent corner, but it\u2019s risky to have so much invested in him when you need to turn things around in the secondary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_71,w_2958,h_1663\/c_fill,w_1440,ar_1440:810,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/196\/01jzg5qs67xjnebsh2z0.jpg\" alt=\"Risky New Lions Addition Could Sabotage Detroit from the Inside\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>New Player Could Hinder the Growth of Others in Detroit<\/h2>\n<p>So, Summers notes that Reed is expected to start, and his time on the field may actually hinder the development of guys like Terrion Arnold and Ennis Rakestraw Jr. If Reed starting does slow the development of any of the other newer players, it makes sense that for the long run, it could be a mistake to have signed him.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">\u201cThe Lions\u2019 margin for error got a lot smaller this offseason,\u201d Summers states, \u201cand now Reed will need to perform like a top-tier corner to make his contract worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">There\u2019s no need to get too down on Reed or the Lions, though. It always helps to have a veteran on board, so as long as the Lions continue to develop their newer players, there will really be no harm done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sabotage&#8221; is only a good word in the context of a Beastie Boys song, but one Detroit Lions player is being predicted to sabotage the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27654","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>New Lions Player Predicted to &#039;Sabotage&#039; the 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=27654\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Lions Player Predicted to &#039;Sabotage&#039; 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