By Saturday at 4 p.m. ET, NFL teams, including our beloved Detroit Lions will have to trim their rosters down to 53 players.
With cut-down day just two days out, The Athletic published a piece that looks at each team’s biggest needs and gluts at this time.
For the Detroit Lions, both the biggest need, as I have been preaching since last season but Bob Quinn has been deaf to, is the defensive line. It seriously blows my mind that Quinn has ignored this weakness and it could cost the Lions in 2020.
Need: Defensive line. The Lions can’t count on Da’Shawn Hand to stay healthy, rookie pass rusher Julian Okwara sat out a scrimmage Wednesday and this unit looked thin even with both of them at 100 percent. Another edge rusher is almost a must.
In addition, the biggest glut is also a no-brainer as the Lions have a solid wide receiver corp. I (along with just about everyone else) predict the final 53-man roster will feature Kenny Golladay, Marvin Jones Jr. Danny Amendola, Quintez Cephus, Marvin Hall, and Jamal Agnew.
Glut: Receiver. There should be six of ’em on the 53-man roster, but that still squeezes out players like promising (and developmental) slot option Tom Kennedy or Victor Bolden, another slot who could help someone on special teams. If GM Bob Quinn wanted to shop, say, Marvin Jones, he wouldn’t have any shortage of suitors.
Nation, do you agree these are the biggest needs and gluts for the 2020 Detroit Lions?
–Excerpts via Chris Burke, The Athletic– LINK
