{"id":230713,"date":"2025-07-23T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/230713\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:57:09","slug":"lions-meet-with-lb-kyzir-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/230713\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions Meet With LB Kyzir White"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lions dealt with widespread injury trouble at linebacker last season, but the team has seen key principals reemerge. Both Alex Anzalone<\/a> and Derrick Barnes<\/a> are back at work, though Malcolm Rodriguez<\/a> is not expected to join them for a while.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>With their LB depth tested last year, the Lions may be ready to act early in 2025. They conducted a free agency visit with Kyzir White<\/a>, Fox Sports\u2019 Jordan Schultz reports<\/a>. A former Chargers, Eagles and Cardinals linebacker, White has resided in free agency since his two-year Arizona deal expired in March.<\/p>\n

[RELATED: Anzalone Expresses Contract Frustration]<\/a><\/p>\n

A 73-game starter, White was attached to a two-year Arizona deal worth $10MM. Deemed a low priority along with fellow Eagles Super Bowl LVII linebacker starter T.J. Edwards<\/a>, White joined the Chicago-bound defender in departing Philly during the 2023 offseason. He reunited with ex-Eagles DC Jonathan Gannon and made 28 starts over the past two years. That included 17 in 2024, as the Cardinals quietly improved from 31st to 15th in scoring defense.<\/p>\n

Pro Football Focus did not think much of White\u2019s Arizona work, ranking him as a bottom-10 linebacker (among regulars) in 2024 and placing him 64th at the position in 2023. A converted safety, White began his career with the Chargers. A 144-tackle contract year (2021) drew Eagles attention, though he only commanded a one-year, $3MM deal. He still logged a 76% snap rate for a strong Eagles defense that season. He hit 94% and 95% rates, respectively, with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n

White, though, was statistically productive in Arizona. He produced back-to-back nine-TFL seasons as a Cardinal and combined for 4.5 sacks in that span. This included a 137-tackle, 2.5-sack 2024. The former fourth-round pick also tallied an interception in both seasons. The Cardinals added Akeem Davis-Gaither<\/a> in free agency as a replacement (also on a two-year, $10MM deal), before using a fourth-round pick on Cody Simon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anzalone missed seven games with a broken arm last year, while a Week 3 knee injury shut down Barnes for the season. Detroit then lost Rodriguez to a late-season ACL tear. He began training camp on the team\u2019s active\/PUP list and is expected to miss regular-season time<\/a>. The Lions are still fairly well situated here, thanks to the presence of 2023 first-round pick Jack Campbell<\/a>, who played all 17 games last season. White, 29, may want to hold out for an injury to shake up a team\u2019s starting crew. An early move, though, would give the seven-year vet a better chance of picking up a team\u2019s scheme ahead of Week 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lions dealt with widespread injury trouble at linebacker last season, but the team has seen key principals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,6989,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-230713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroitlions","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-kyzir-white","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114904789525603772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}