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Getty Images It’s a common refrain during the Scouting Combine to scoff at the idea that anything meaningful can be gleaned from watching players run and jump in shorts and t-shirts. “The Combine doesn’t matter,” the skeptics say. “Just watch them play.” Teez Tabor shows that the Combine does...

Getty Images Tommylee Lewis has his place in NFL history regardless whatever else happens in his career. The league expanded replay after a non-pass interference call during the NFC Championship Game when Rams defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman interfered with Lewis. But Lewis is on the...

Getty Images Quarterback David Blough saw time for the Browns in Thursday night’s preseason game against the Lions and his stat line wasn’t terribly impressive. Blough completed 11-of-17 passes for 115 yards and threw a pair of interceptions against the backup defenders that Detroit was...

Getty Images The Lions felt like they were stuck in mediocrity, fired coach Jim Caldwell, and promptly got worse. But General Manager Bob Quinn told reporters he thinks the team has made “great progress” in the second training cap under coach Matt Patricia. “You guys will judge progress with...

Getty Images [Editor’s note: We’re keeping track of the moves as NFC teams make them this weekend, as they have to get to their 53-man roster limit by Saturday at 4 p.m. Check back throughout the weekend, as we’ll update throughout.] Dallas Waived nine players, including running back Darius...

Getty Images Word earlier this month was that cornerback Teez Tabor was fighting an uphill battle to land a spot on the Lions’ 53-man roster. Tabor did not win that battle. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports he is among the team’s cuts ahead of Saturday’s deadline. Tabor was a second-round...

Getty Images Mike Daniels spent most of the offseason rehabbing after a foot injury ended his 2018 season early. And just when he got healthy, the Packers sent him packing. Which he’s OK with. In fact, Daniels says he thinks Detroit is such a perfect place for him that he’s now glad Green Bay...

Getty Images The Lions made an addition to their backfield a day before their final preseason game of the summer. The team announced the signing of running back James Williams on Wednesday. The Lions will play the Browns in Cleveland on Thursday. Williams left Washington State with...

Getty Images Every year, players with recognizable names become, over the course of the season, household names. This year, which players will make that transformation? That question was the subject of Wednesday’s four-round PFT Live draft. There are many to choose from, as evidence by the...

Getty Images The Lions are using the final week of the preseason to take a look at quarterback Luis Perez and they’ve decided they’ve seen enough of David Fales. The team officially announced Perez’s signing and Fales’s release on Tuesday morning. Fales signed with the Lions in June and...

Getty Images The Lions have released veteran running back Zach Zenner, the team announced Tuesday. They had re-signed Zenner on March 12. Zenner joined the Lions as an undrafted rookie in 2015 and went on injured reserve during his rookie season. He returned in a bigger role the next year and...

Getty Images Andrew Luck said it hurt on Saturday night when he was booed off the field, just as fans in Indianapolis were learning he had decided to retire. Barry Sanders understood. Sanders’ surprise retirement from the Lions in 1999 wasn’t exactly the same: Sanders faxed a retirement...

Getty Images The Detroit Lions are adding a quarterback to the roster for the final week of the preseason. According to Adam Caplan of Sirius XM NFL Radio, the Lions are signing former Philadelphia Eagles and AAF quarterback Luis Perez. Perez spent a month with the Eagles earlier this...

Getty Images Rarely if ever do we expand the PFT Live draft beyond the world of football. Rarely if ever are we reacting to a story the resonates so loudly beyond the world of football. In the aftermath of Colts quarterback Andrew Luck‘s stunning retirement, Chris Simms and I spent some time...

Getty Images The Lions made a few roster moves to kick off the week. Linebacker Steve Longa has been cleared to practice with the team after spending all of the summer on the physically unable to perform list. Longa missed all of last season with a torn ACL. He had 13 tackles in 15 games as a...

Getty Images Kyler Murray wasn’t concerned about the offense. Kliff Kingsbury wasn’t concerned about the offense. The Cardinals, though, wanted a better showing Saturday after a disappointing showing a week ago. Murray completed 14 of 21 passes for 137 yards in the 20-9 loss to the Vikings...

Getty Images When Lions center Frank Ragnow and linebacker Jarrad Davis had to be helped off the field and carted to the locker room on Friday night, the injuries looked ugly, and there was immediate speculation that they could be season-ending. That turned out not to be the case. Lions coach...

Debate about the best way to handle the exhibition season has increased along with the number of teams that choose to keep key players out of preseason games altogether. The argument in favor of keeping starters on the bench got some support in Detroit on Friday night. Lions linebacker Jarrad...

Kliff Kingsbury is bringing the “Air Raid” offense to the NFL. Halfway through the preseason, his team is doing its best to ignore the warning sirens. As explained by Bob McManaman of the Arizona Republic, criticism has mounted over the team’s planned attack. The players are insisting that it’s...

Getty Images Paul Worrilow has decided not to join the Ravens after all. Less than 24 hours after the Ravens announced the signing of Worrilow, a free agent linebacker, he decided to retire, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Worrilow missed the entire 2018 season with a torn ACL and...