{"id":800592,"date":"2026-03-08T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800592\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:38:13","slug":"2026-detroit-lions-free-agency-news-rumor-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800592\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Detroit Lions free agency news, rumor tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Detroit Lions face their most important and difficult offseason ahead. They\u2019ll have to do work to get under the salary cap, rework some contracts to find some spending money, then fill what seems to be an amount of roster holes that grows by the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With his work cut out for him, Lions general manager Brad Holmes must shine in the next two months if the team is going to maintain its high level of competitiveness and keep their Super Bowl window open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To help you navigate through this news-heavy time, we have created this Detroit Lions free agency news and rumor tracker. Every time a transaction is made, a credible rumor drops, or anything in between, we\u2019ll update this tracker with the relevant news and links to the full stories. We\u2019ll keep the list in chronological order so that you can jump right back in from the last time you viewed this tracker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per annual tradition, this is just one of three trackers we\u2019ll have going during free agency. Right now, you can get a full overview of the Lions\u2019 2026 roster with our constantly updating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideofdetroit.com\/detroit-lions-depth-chart\/154763\/2026-detroit-lions-contract-tracker-positional-breakdown-of-signed-players-free-agents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions positional depth chart\/contract tracker here.<\/a> On Monday, we\u2019ll drop our 2026 Lions offseason tracker, which will have a full list of the Lions\u2019 signings, unsigned free agents, trades, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Without further ado, here is the latest Detroit Lions free agency news and rumors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Note: Actual transactions are bolded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions face their most important and difficult offseason ahead. They\u2019ll have to do work to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,11309,153,5845,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-800592","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-free-agency","11":"tag-detroit-lions-news","12":"tag-detroit-lions-rumors","13":"tag-detroitlions","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-lions","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116194306019265058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800592","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=800592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}