March 14, 2026, 10:10 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
Was there any doubt that Tom Kennedy would be back<\/a> with the Lions<\/a>? No there wasn’t. His expected return is good news as he provides healthy, reliable depth at WR and looked good at returner last season.<\/p>\n The following is an excerpt from my Detroit Lions Day 4 Free Agency article.<\/a><\/p>\n (Ages in parentheses are at start of 2026 season.)<\/p>\n Tom Kennedy, WR (30)<\/p>\n Contract: undisclosed<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n Concern level 1\/10<\/p>\n From my\u00a0offseason Lions free agent article<\/a>:<\/p>\n Kennedy will be just 30 years old even though it seems like he has been a member of the Lions<\/a> for 30 years. He appeared in 6 games last season and showed nice flashes on kickoff returns.<\/p>\n As a receiver last season, he had a nice performance vs the Packers with 4 receptions.<\/p>\n I had a very low medical concern for Kennedy heading into the offseason, so it\u2019s good to see the Lions bring this low-risk player back. With Kalif Raymond leaving for the Bears, Kennedy has a chance to have a bigger role in 2026.<\/p>\n For more\u00a0Lions<\/a>\u00a0coverage, follow us on X,\u00a0@TheLionsWire<\/a>, and give our\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page a like.\u00a0Follow Jimmy on X,\u00a0@JimmyLiaoMD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 14, 2026, 10:10 a.m. ET Was there any doubt that Tom Kennedy would be back with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[95878,146,113,2506,7,147,6,52959,96502,95882,96242,97050,95906,96071,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-813227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfllions","16":"tag-sstsnlions","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagdetroit-lions","19":"tag-tagkalif-raymond","20":"tag-tagoverall-positive","21":"tag-tagsmg-timely","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116231688948682133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813227","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=813227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}