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Roger Zatkoff, starter on Detroit Lions' 1957 championship team, dies at 90

Roger Zatkoff, one of the last living members of the Detroit Lions' 1957 championship team, died last week at 90 years old.

Zatkoff was a standout linebacker at Michigan and with the Lions in the 1950s who went on to a successful business career after his playing days.

A Hamtramck native, Zatkoff played his first four NFL seasons with the Green Bay Packers and made three Pro Bowls with the team before engineering a trade to the Lions.

Initially traded from the Packers to the Cleveland Browns after the 1956 season, Zatkoff balked at reporting to Cleveland.