The free agent negotiating period opens in a little over seven weeks, but the Detroit Lions will be active trying to re-sign some of their own free agents well before then.
Most of the Lions’ 15 unrestricted free agents have expressed a desire publicly to return to Detroit, and Lions general manager Brad Holmes said the “majority” of those players have said the same thing behind closed doors.
“But I don’t ignore the reality of there’s other elements of that business that we’re going to have to deal with,” Holmes said last week. “But it was cool to hear because those guys believe in what we’re doing and they believe it’s the right way.