{"id":790040,"date":"2026-03-03T22:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/790040\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:39:14","slug":"lions-news-national-nfl-analysts-weigh-in-on-david-montgomery-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/790040\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions News: National NFL analysts weigh in on David Montgomery trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWhile Jahmyr Gibbs has shown he can handle a high-volume workload, Montgomery is still one of the league\u2019s better change-of-pace and short-yardage backs. Still, Detroit should be able to find a solid complement to Gibbs in free agency or the draft. The backfield may not be as potent with a new RB2, but with Gibbs leading the rotation, it should remain functional. The Lions are getting solid compensation in return for Montgomery, plus a young lineman in Juice Scruggs. The 2023 second-round pick has 20 starts on his resume and should compete for playing time along the interior.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhile Jahmyr Gibbs has shown he can handle a high-volume workload, Montgomery is still one of the league\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[153,4391,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-790040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-detroit-lions-news","9":"tag-detroit-lions-notes","10":"tag-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116167662160625176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790040","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=790040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}