But instead of pointing fingers or wallowing in self pity, let\u2019s celebrate David Montgomery\u2019s three years in Detroit. The bruising back saw a renaissance of his career and quickly became part of one of the most iconic rushing duos in the modern era. In total, Montgomery accumulated 562 rushes, 2,506 rushing yards, 33 rushing touchdowns, 76 catches, and 650 receiving yards in Detroit.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take all of those plays together, and share our favorites. Today\u2019s Question of the Day is:<\/p>\n
What was David Montgomery\u2019s best play as a Detroit Lion?<\/p>\n
But nothing\u2014I MEAN NOTHING\u2014tops the catch and run he had at home against the Seattle Seahawks in 2024.<\/p>\n
It was \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d and the Lions were up 21-14 against a Seahawks team that seemingly had their number. Jared Goff, on a play-action pass, decided his first few reads weren\u2019t there, so he checked down to Montgomery. Unfortunately for the Lions, Devon Witherspoon read the play immediately, and was charging full speed at Montgomery. By the time Montgomery had caught the ball and turned downfield, Witherspoon was on him.<\/p>\n
But Witherspoon is 6-foot, 185 pounds. Montgomery is 5-foot-11, 230 pounds. The Lions running back used every ounce of that extra 45 pounds and plowed it through Witherspoon, planting him into the Ford Field turf.<\/p>\n
If that wasn\u2019t enough, Montgomery showed his short-area quickness by shaking and splitting the next two Seahawks defenders. Then he broke an arm tackle, changed direction, displayed his underrated acceleration, broke one more tackle, and turned what should have been a 2-yard gain into a 40-yard explosive.<\/p>\n
Enjoy Montgomery\u2019s iconic play below, and then please share some of your favorites in the comment section at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But instead of pointing fingers or wallowing in self pity, let\u2019s celebrate David Montgomery\u2019s three years in Detroit.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,52105,84539,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-788947","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-conversation-starters-and-community-questions","11":"tag-detroit-lions-discussion","12":"tag-detroitlions","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116165180495271749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788947","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=788947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}