There will be a new voice helping call Detroit Lions games on the radio, beginning this season.
T.J. Lang, the recently retired Lions offensive lineman, has been hired as the radio sideline reporter for the team's radio coverage. The team's flagship station changed from WJR-AM (760) to WXYT-FM (97.1) this season.
Lang will join play-by-play announcer Dan Miller and analyst (and fellow former Lions offensive lineman) Lomas Brown. He will also become a regular guest on 97.1 The Ticket's "The Morning Show with Stoney and Jansen" and "The Mike Valenti Show with Rico."
Lang, 33, starred at Birmingham Brother Rice and Eastern Michigan before he was a fourth-round draft pick of the Green Bay Packers in 2009.