The Detroit Lions signed former Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Mac McClain III to their 90-man roster Thursday.
McClain spent most of last season on the Eagles practice squad and was with the team for its Super Bowl loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. He appeared in one game in 2021, making three tackles in the Eagles' Week 18 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
The grandson of civil rights activist Franklin McCain, who was a part of the "Greensboro Four," a group of North Carolina A&T students who organized a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's counter in Greensboro in February 1960, McClain originally signed with the Denver Broncos as an undrafted rookie out of North Carolina A&T in 2021.