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East Rutherford, N.J. — In a homecoming game for Eric Ebron, the Detroit Lions tight end made some noise with his play, and maybe a little bit with his mouth. Ebron, a Newark, N.J. native, grew up a Giants fan. He still has plenty of family in the area who live only a short drive away from MetLife Stadium

Detroit’s Greg Robinson and New York’s Ereck Flowers both struggled during the Lions’ win at MetLife Stadium on Monday.

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP) — Matthew Stafford threw for two touchdowns and rookie Jamal Agnew broke the game open with an 88-yard punt return in the fourth quarter as the Detroit Lions beat the New York Giants 24-10 in the NFL on Monday night.

Detroit Lions coach Jim Caldwell said both Dwayne Washington and Jamal Agnew could return kicks Monday night against the New York Giants (8:30 p.m., ESPN). Washington won the Lions’ kick-return job in training camp, but he was benched after two returns in last week’s win over the Arizona Cardinals

Allen Park — Tuesdays are typically off-days for the Detroit Lions during the regular season. It’s a good time to reflect on the game from last weekend, as well as the next opponent. With that in mind, we’ll look to do a mailbag each week, to answer all your pressing questions. The Stafford

Rookie Jamal Agnew averaged 16 yards on 3 punt returns Darren Fells ran toward the end zone with his right arm raised, a clear sign — a stop sign — for Dwayne Washington to take a knee. But Washington picked up the ball 6 yards deep in the end zone on a first-quarter kick return, ignored his lead blocker

Jerry Reichow put the finishing touches on the Lions’ 1957 championship game victory over the Cleveland Browns with a late touchdown pass to Hopalong Cassady, then spent most of the next six decades trying to beat his old team. Reichow joined the Philadelphia Eagles in 1960, where he won another

The Detroit Lions waived former Eastern Michigan defensive end Patrick O’Connor as part of their cut to a 53-man roster today. O’Connor, the Lions’ seventh-round pick this year, was competing for the fourth and fifth defensive end spots with undrafted rookies Alex Barrett and Jeremiah Valoaga

The Lions and quarterback Matt Stafford reached an agreement on a contract extension Monday that will make him the highest-paid player in NFL history at a reported $27 million per year. Stafford’s new contract surpasses Derek Carr’s $25 million-per-year deal that was signed in June. Stafford&

The Lions and quarterback Matt Stafford reached an agreement on a contract extension Monday that will make him the highest-paid player in NFL history at a reported $27 million per year. Stafford’s new contract surpasses Derek Carr’s $25 million-per-year deal that was signed in June. Stafford&

The NFL was taken over by the news that Detroit Lions and Matthew Stafford agreed to a contract extension today. It’s through the year 2022 and will pay Stafford $27 million a year, the highest annual salary in NFL history.  As we’re prone to do nowadays, instant reaction was at a fever pitch

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Tim Twentyman Senior Writer Akeem Spence and Jordan Hill are new to Detroit’s defensive line rotation, signing as free agents in the offseason, but they’re already impressing one veteran teammate. Haloti Ngata called both players “beasts” after Monday’s practice for the way they’ve been

Greg Robinson said he’s still in the early stages of learning the Lions’ offense not quite two months after he was acquired in a trade with the Los Angeles Rams. Robinson joined the Lions on the final day of veteran minicamp in June and did not practice with the team before summer break. He started

Michael Roberts had an undeniable chemistry with Toledo quarterback Logan Woodside last year. In his first season as a starter, Roberts caught 45 passes and became one of the best red zone threats in college football with a whopping 16 touchdowns. A rookie fourth-round pick of the Lions, Roberts is doing

Matthew Stafford has yet to reach the elite status the Lions envisioned for him when selecting him first overall in 2009. But the flamethrower made an effort to get over the hump this offseason. For the first time in his career, Stafford opted to hire a private quarterback tutor during the offseason.

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions have put punter Sam Martin on the active/non-football injury list after he hurt his ankle earlier this month. The Lions announced the move Tuesday, saying Martin was injured while away from the team’s practice facility. The team says he’ll miss time

Sam Martin’s bid to make the Pro Bowl this fall is off to a rough start. Martin, who set a franchise record for net punting average in 2016, will miss part of training camp with an ankle injury he suffered earlier this month, the Detroit Lions announced today. The Lions placed Martin, a Pro Bowl

In the days leading up to the start of Lions training camp, Justin Rogers of The Detroit News will highlight the key position battles. Today: Backup defensive tackles. Allen Park — The Detroit Lions used to have the most feared group of defensive tackles in the NFL, led by Ndamukong Suh and Nick Fairley

Detroit — A tour showcasing Ford Field’s upgrades Wednesday morning culminated with the lighting of the new video boards in each end zone, massive HD displays approximately triple the size of the previous, outdated versions they replaced. But as the stadium glowed in a blue hue from the placeholder

For the second straight year, we’ll spend the summer counting down the top-20 players on the Detroit Lions’ roster in anticipation of training camp. Here, in reverse order, are your top-20 Lions for 2017. No. 19: Tavon Wilson Position: Safety. Age: 27. 2016 stats: 15 GP: 89 tackles, 2 INT, 1

The Detroit Lions are getting their No. 1 and 2 running backs back on the field this fall, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Nos. 3 and 4 will disappear from the rotation. Lions coach Jim Caldwell said this spring he envisions employing a backfield-by-committee in 2017. Ameer Abdullah, who missed

He’s not even a starter yet, but Miles Killebrew might be one of the Detroit Lions’ most important players on defense this fall. Killebrew made 28 tackles as a rookie in 2016 playing primarily out of the Lions’ dime defensive set, and he showed enough promise that the team made him its primary

Allen Park — They gave us a glimpse, but that was all. And that’s part of the reason everyone’s watching Theo Riddick now, waiting and wondering. Ameer Abdullah, the Lions’ No. 1 running back, has returned to action, after missing almost all of last season with a foot injury. But his tag-team

Allen Park — When attempting to identify a Detroit Lions player poised for a breakout season in 2017, almost everyone who has been polled in the organization lands on the same name: Miles Killebrew. The second-year safety made modest contributions as a rookie, recording 28 tackles and an interception

Sports Illustrated‘s Jonathan Jones has a very good point about the Lions, and a very good question. “[Detroit Lions head coach Jim] Caldwell has delivered two winning seasons in three years for the first time since 1995–97,” Jones wrote on Wednesday morning. But the question he followed that point with was telling: “Can Matt Stafford build on the best year of his career?” The answer, Jones wrote in his 32-team, 256-game prediction of how the NFL season will go, is no—at least not in terms of wins and losses. Jones, who admirably stuck to the schedule and predicted the result of each game rather than guesstimate a record or each team, projected Detroit to finish 9-7 for the second straight year.

Bob Quinn made his first draft-day trade as Detroit Lions general manager, and it just so happened to be with his old team, the New England Patriots. The Lions traded down from the No. 85 pick in the third round, exchanging third-round picks with the Patriots (No. 96 overall) and adding Pick No. 124 in the fourth round. Quinn did not make any draft-day trades in his first year as Lions GM last year. He did, however, consummate two other trades with the Patriots organization he spent 16 seasons with. The Lions acquired linebacker Jon Bostic from the Patriots last spring in a deal that did not end up costing them any compensation because Bostic spent the season on injured reserve, and he traded