T.J. Lang is coming home. The Pro Bowl offensive guard grew up in Michigan. He went to college at Eastern Michigan. He spends his offseasons in suburban Detroit and trains about 20 minutes from the Detroit Lions' facility in Allen Park.
The 29-year-old Lang understands what the Lions have been throughout his life, with a history of losing and, lately, a team that seems to be making right moves to finally improve. Now, likely in the final big contract of his career, Lang is going to join them.
Lang is the Lions' second-biggest signing in free agency (behind right tackle Rick Wagner) and Lang might understand better than any other free agent in the market what winning would mean to the Lions' franchise and fans.