{"id":795095,"date":"2026-03-06T02:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/795095\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T02:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:29:13","slug":"nfl-injury-data-shows-2025-detroit-lions-were-historically-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/795095\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL injury data shows 2025 Detroit Lions were historically hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Adjusted Games Lost, or AGL, not only tracks the number of games lost due to injuries, but also puts certain weight on starters over reserves and takes into account players who are not at 100%. <a href=\"https:\/\/ftnfantasy.com\/nfl\/2024-agl-49ers-get-smacked-down-by-injuries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The full definition of AGL is below<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Adjusted games lost doesn\u2019t just add up total injuries. It accounts for both absent players and those playing at less than 100%, and it specifically measures injuries to expected starters and important situational players rather than little-used backups. As such, AGL estimates the impact of injuries on teams and provides a comparable total that often succinctly explains why teams improved or declined from one year to the next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In 2024, the Lions ranked 25th in AGL, meaning injuries had the eighth-highest impact of any team in the NFL. As you may remember, the Lions were particularly devastated on defense, ranking 32nd\u2026 dead last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This past season was actually much worse. Overall, they ranked 31st in AGL, only ahead of the Arizona Cardinals. And for the second year in a row, they had the most-injured defense in football. But it was actually even more injured in 2025, with the AGL jumping from 86.5 to 92.7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While that may seem off, just think about all of the significant injuries on defense. Levi Onwuzurike, Josh Paschal, and Ennis Rakestraw missed the entire season. Kerby Joseph missed 11 games. Marcus Davenport and Terrion Arnold missed nine. Alim McNeill missed seven. D.J. Reed missed six, and Brian Branch missed five. That\u2019s nine players, six of whom were clear-cut starters, missing over a month of football. On offense, they lost Christian Mahogany (6 games), Sam LaPorta (8 games), Brock Wright (9 games), and dealt with an injured Taylor Decker all season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the linked article below, Aaron Schatz named the 12 most-injured defenses of the past 25 years, and both the 2024 and 2025 Lions defenses made the list. Last year\u2019s Lions defense ranks second-most injured among NFL defenses since 2001, trailing only the 2021 Jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Schatz pointed out something remarkable about both of the Lions\u2019 historically injured defenses of the past two seasons: of the 12 most-injured defenses since 2001, both Lions teams are the only to have finished the season with a winning record\u2014going 15-2 in 2024 and 9-8 last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adjusted Games Lost, or AGL, not only tracks the number of games lost due to injuries, but also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[449,153,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-795095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-detroit-lions-analysis","9":"tag-detroit-lions-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116179878904632865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795095","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=795095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}