The Detroit Lions have reportedly signed free agent tight end Thomas Gordon to a futures deal, per Aaron Wilson.<\/p>\n
Last year, Gordon spent some of the 2025 season\u2014his rookie year\u2014with the Chicago Bears. He signed with the team in August, didn\u2019t make their 53-man roster, signed to the practice squad in December, and was not signed to a futures deal by Chicago after their season ended.<\/p>\n
Prior to his time with the Bears, Gordon was a late-season addition to the UFL\u2019s San Antonio Brahmas\u2019 squad. He played only one game for them and did not record any statistics.<\/p>\n
Before that, Gordon played for the Northwestern Wildcats for six years, starting in 18 games and appearing in a total of 54. While he\u2019s never been a huge receiving threat, he did catch 27 passes for 252 yards and a touchdown in his super-senior year with the Wildcats in 2024.<\/p>\n
At 6-foot-5, 255 pounds, Gordon is built like a blocking-first tight end, but he had varying levels of success in college.<\/p>\n
A lot has been made in recent weeks about the Lions potentially playing more 13 personnel with the hiring of Drew Petzing as their new offensive coordinator, which could mean more investment in the tight end position this offseason. Thus far, the Lions have only three other tight ends currently under contract for the 2026 season: Sam LaPorta, Brock Wright, and Zach Horton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions have reportedly signed free agent tight end Thomas Gordon to a futures deal, per Aaron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,153,2705,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-716169","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-detroit-lions-news","11":"tag-detroit-lions-transactions","12":"tag-detroitlions","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115983341802426444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716169","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=716169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}