Detroit Lions 53-Man Roster Prediction (Pre-Browns Game Edition)

He’s 215 so he at least has a bit more weight but he’d also be insanely cheap. Keeping the better performer of Harrison/Bell + Johnson and shedding Morris and his contract is where I hope we end up by the start of the season.

If the Lions sign Davis then he would come in mainly to be a backup guard. I would like to see it happen so that Peterman has somebody pushing him and making him play to keep his job. But from a contract standpoint, the Lions are not going to play more than $1 million for a backup guard. If Davis isn’t willing to play for that money then you probably will not see him in a Detroit uniform. Since the Lions are reportedly about $1 million under the cap, they probably wouldn’t have to do much of anything to fit in Davis.

Hogue and Robinson would go but a 7th rounded that is 2 years from playing should be safe on the practice squad. I think they will let Robinson go but there is no way Hogue doesn’t make the team

specially on PR, and whose to say teams don’t ‘risk’ the guarunteed starting from the 20 to try their luck further. God knows the Bears will, Hesters the biggest threat in the league still.

A team can take one of two strategies with kickoff:

1) Employ the most powerful kicker possible and aim for the uprights every time forcing touchbacks. This allows the team to allocate some of those special teams specialists into depth at other positions

2) Employ a powerful yet precision kicker (eg – Hanson) to excel at kicking a higher ball that lands right on the goal line, forcing the return man to make a return, but also giving your coverage team more time to get up field and make a play behind the 20. This scenario requires even more emphasis on great special teams players like Ike and is the more aggressive strategy of the two.

Given #2 is a more aggressive strategy, I could definitely see the Lions taking this route as it seems to blend well with how they’re approaching their offense and their defense.

May I point out however, Jim says he wants plays out of his ST’s. If your going to be aggressive on ST’s you need the big hitters for when they do bring it out. Plus dont forget punt team, Id love to….Im in agony every time we I see the punt team go in…we’ve given up big, big chunks on punt returns.

but ya, as the new rule stands a kick returner is a luxury position.

we used him as a hybrid RB/WR in certain times and he was pretty effective. Kind of like a Danny Woodhead almost. I’d definitely think he’s well worthy of keeping.

No delay here.