Earlier in April, the NFL sent a memo to teams permitting them to now have a third alternate helmet in their uniform repertoire. For teams that were going under a uniform change in 2024, they could add that third option as soon as this year. For everyone else, the third helmet could debut in 2025.
That led many to speculate that the Detroit Lions would be introducing a third helmet option during Thursday night’s new uniform reveal. And while the Lions did reveal a change to their alternate blue helmets, there was no third helmet unveiled for the upcoming season.