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All Lions: Detroit Lions 53-Man Roster Projections

Ahead of Saturday's roster cutdown, several beat writers and Lions insiders have published their 53-man roster projections
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All Lions: Detroit Lions 53-Man Roster Projections
All Lions: Detroit Lions 53-Man Roster Projections

Ahead of this weekend, head coach Matt Patricia and general manager Bob Quinn must collaborate with the coaching staff to decide which players should remain on the 53-man active roster. 

Does Patricia feel he got everything he needed out of this year's abbreviated training camp?

"I think we’ve tried to maximize the amount of time that we’ve had," Patricia said Thursday in a video conference with Detroit media. "We are 12 practices into training camp, that is not enough. We all know that. So, we have some ground to make up. We also understand that if we can get the basics and the fundamentals and kind of the core of what we want to do in and taught -- we’re going to add on it as we go through the season, and we’re going to need the month of September to do that. Certainly just making sure that we’ve taught all the different aspects of the game is the biggest part of it."

This week, many reporters and analysts released who they felt would make the 2020 roster.

Here is a collection of Detroit Lions 53-man roster projections published this week ahead of Saturday's roster cut downs. 

Some will require a paid subscription, while others are not behind any paywall.

  • John Maakaron, SI All Lions 53-man roster projection
  • Vito Chirco SI All Lions 53-man roster projection
  • Erik Schlitt, USA Today's Lions Wire 53-man roster projection
  • Jeremy Reisman, Pride of Detroit dueling 53-man roster projection podcast 
  • Justin Rogers, The Detroit News 53-man roster projection (Subscription required)
  • Benjamin Raven, MLive 53-man roster projection (Subscription required)
  • Kyle Meinke, MLive 53-man roster projection (Subscription required)
  • Michael Rothstein, ESPN 53-man roster projection (ESPN+ required) 
  • Chris Burke, The Athletic 53-man roster projection (Subscription required)
  • Jeremy Friedrichs, SideLion Report 53-man roster projection
  • Dave Birkett, The Free Press 53-man roster projection (Subscription required)

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John Maakaron
JOHN MAAKARON

John Maakaron has covered Detroit Sports since 2013. Brings a vast array of experience covering the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Lions, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, Detroit Mercy Titans, and Oakland University Golden Grizzlies. John brings a wealth of sports broadcast experience. In 2013, John had the vision to establish the Detroit Sports Podcast Network. Has recorded over 3000 podcasts analyzing Detroit Sports. In 2019, Sports Illustrated Media Group, a historical sports media outlet, partnered with Detroit Sports Podcast to provide daily Lions content for their growing and expanding digital media outlet. Our Lions content can also be read in the newspaper at The Oakland  Passionate about Detroit Sports and it is reflected in his coverage of the local teams!

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