{"id":826816,"date":"2026-03-22T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/826816\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:30:21","slug":"top-2-most-impactful-defensive-free-agent-signings-for-the-detroit-lions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/826816\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 2 Most Impactful Defensive Free Agent Signings for the Detroit Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why the Detroit Lions Are Not Rebuilding After Free Agency LossesMike Payton breaks down why the Detroit Lions are not entering a rebuild despite losing several familiar names in free agency. While players like Alex Anzalone, Kalif Raymond, Roy Lopez, and Amik Robertson moving on might look concerning at first glance, many of those departures were expected. The Lions are simply getting younger and cheaper around their core stars like Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jahmyr Gibbs, Jameson Williams, Jared Goff, and Aidan Hutchinson. Mike explains why Detroit\u2019s long-term plan remains firmly intact.<\/p>\n<p>Now PlayingPausedAd Playing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why the Detroit Lions Are Not Rebuilding After Free Agency LossesMike Payton breaks down why the Detroit Lions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,4609,147,6,4378],"class_list":{"0":"post-826816","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-detroitlions","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-free-agency","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-the-lions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116271895510985022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826816","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=826816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}