NFL Roster Cuts: Lions Release Jon Jansen (UPDATED)

I like Jon Jansen and always wished he could have been a Lion earlier in his career. However, I will take this to mean that Gosder decisively won the Right Tackle job, and also that Corey Hilliard has impressed the coaches a fair bit.
Other possibility? The Lions will be looking for a depth tackle from the waiver players.

I’ve been fishing with Dave Birkett…He used to write the outdoor blog at the Freep and I would send in pictures and fish stories, so we hooked up for some fishing…..I should work this connection for info.

I understand Detroit wanting to get younger but to release Jansen to keep Gosder and Cory made the Oline that much weaker, softer and stupider.

Yeah he is older but he seemed like he still has a lot in the tank and in my mind had won a spot on the roster. I don’t remember his name being called all preseason and that is a good thing when talking about an O lineman.

Jon can head on up to Petoskey and enjoy life now…he has a heck of a spread east of town, with some of the best deer hunting in the area.

Backus is continually bad mouthed on here because he is old, Riaola is the same age. Yeah, we do need to get younger. We have enough veterans.

If Corey Hilliard does end up making our active roster then we would have one more available spot on the practice squad. If we assume that Sean’s guesses are correct (Mike Moore, Tim Toone, Dan Gronkowski, Dan Gerberry, Caleb Campbell, Aaron Berry, and Paul Pratt) then there appear to only be three other players that would even be eligible for the eighth spot. Those three players are Noah Franklin, Cliff Louis, and Robert Callaway.

If Dan Gronkowski makes our active roster, or even Aaron Berry or Paul Pratt, we could potentially have two more spots available on the practice squad.

I really don’t know much about any of these three players, but Robert Callaway seems like a long shot considering the depth of the D-Line and the fact that he was already cut and re-signed once this pre-season. Cutting Jon Jansen may have been more exciting for Noah Franklin than it was/is for Corey Hilliard.

I am actually very encourage by this move. Though I liked Jansen and was rooting for the old Wolverine it makes a lot of sense to me. He was much older than Hilliard and on the clear decline of his career. He has also showed me absolutely no reason to keep him over Hilliard. Smart move by the front office and the right choice to make, even if it is the unpopular one. This move makes us the same this year in talent, and better next year and moving forward.

I thought Jansen was in no trouble of being cut. Would’ve preferred if he wasn’t cut since I like his experience but obviously youth was the deciding factor here.