{"id":774473,"date":"2026-02-25T02:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774473\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T02:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:57:30","slug":"detroit-lions-lt-taylor-decker-to-return-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774473\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions LT Taylor Decker to return for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Detroit Lions left tackle Taylor Decker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVJ9A9FkfGw\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appeared to announce on Instagram<\/a> on Tuesday afternoon that he\u2019ll be returning to the team for the 2026 season, his 11th career year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Decker posted to Instagram a photo of himself coming out of the Ford Field tunnel with the following caption:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWhom shall I send, and who will go for us?\u201d And I said, \u201cHere I am; SEND ME!\u201d #Year11<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If that seems too enigmatic for you, Lions reporter Justin Rogers confirmed that Decker is, indeed, intending to play for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIf that\u2019s what my future is going to be to continue to play\u2014that\u2019s not something I\u2019m willing to do. Because I\u2019m not willing to put my family through it,\u201d Decker said. \u201cI\u2019m not willing to be distant and not be a present father, because your kids are only little once, and, God willing, we have more. I want to be able to play with them. I want to be able to throw the ball with them. I mean, I can\u2019t throw a football right now. No way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But it appears Decker feels like he\u2019s in a good enough spot with his shoulder to proceed forward and play for another year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cLook, if it\u2019s not (possible Decker returns), then we\u2018ve got to find a guy. But even if (he returns), we\u2019ve still got to find a guy,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cBecause, as much as I love Deck, he\u2019s got some things that are going to need some management, and that\u2019s kind of where we\u2019re at. So, one way or another, we\u2019re going to need somebody who can play over there (left tackle). If we need them in a crunch, or if we need them as a starter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions left tackle Taylor Decker appeared to announce on Instagram on Tuesday afternoon that he\u2019ll be returning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-774473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-detroit-lions-news","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116129028529060849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774473","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=774473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}