2021 didn’t look good on paper, but the culture change that Dan Campbell brought to Detroit was a huge positive for this team moving forward. We saw players buying in and games where the Detroit Lions could have given up early, but they stayed in it and kept it close while enduring some heartbreaking losses.
We saw a lot of great individual performances, too. Guys like Charles Harris and Dean Marlowe were brought in via free agency and played better than expected, while rookies Penei Sewell and Amon-Ra St. Brown had stellar years and have blossomed into building blocks for this franchise.