{"id":810067,"date":"2026-03-13T14:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/810067\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:45:35","slug":"detroit-lions-sign-free-agent-db-christian-izien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/810067\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions sign free agent DB Christian Izien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Park, Mich. \u2013 The Detroit Lions announced today that they have signed free agent DB Christian Izien. Contract terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Izien comes to Detroit after spending the first three seasons of his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2023-25). He originally joined the Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent out of Rutgers following the 2023 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>In 45-career games (15 starts), he has recorded 158 tackles (106 solo), eight tackles for loss, five pass defenses, three interceptions, three forced fumbles and two quarterback hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allen Park, Mich. \u2013 The Detroit Lions announced today that they have signed free agent DB Christian Izien.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,7,416,8972,6476,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-810067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","11":"tag-news-umcu-transactions","12":"tag-news-press-releases","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-tampa-bay","15":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","16":"tag-tampabay","17":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116222409290410239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810067","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=810067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}