This is always a bittersweet time for NFL fans. The Detroit Lions, along with every other team in the league, are required to trim their bloated 90-man rosters down to just 53 players by Saturday afternoon, leaving over 1,000 football players unemployed.
News of these cuts usually start to trickle in a day or two before. Therefore, we’ll try our best to document those cuts below as the news is released and provide you with the source of that information.
For the Lions, there are several players considered to be on the fringe of making the active roster.