With some homegrown talent remaining in Allen Park, the Detroit Lions are beginning to assemble their 90-roster for the upcoming summer.
agreements for the 2024 winter season. The Lions practice squad included all 11 of the signed players at the end of the season, and many of them played the whole campaign.
The 11 players who were re-signed to the Lions 2024 roster are listed below:
Jefferson, Jermar, RB WR Jake Funk Maurice Alexander Tom KennedyO.T. Connor Galvin O.L. Matt Faronik
IOL Michael Niese DT Chris Smith
EDGE Mitchell Agude
CB Craig James S. Brandon Joseph
Teams are permitted to add up to 90 players to their active squads during the offseason; however, the expansion of rosters does not occur until the league’s new year, which begins on March 13, 2024.
Players on practice squads have contracts that expire seven days after their team’s season ends, while those on the 53-man rosters of the teams are still bound by their existing contracts and cannot join with another team until mid-March. That implies that in less than a week, the members of the Lions 2023–24 practice squad were scheduled to become “street free agents,” or qualified to sign a contract right away.
