{"id":851430,"date":"2026-04-03T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851430\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:25:15","slug":"dan-campbell-jahmyr-gibbs-detroit-lions-running-back-wide-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851430\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Campbell: Jahmyr Gibbs Detroit Lions running back wide receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs is the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jahmyr-gibbs-is-the-betting-favorite-to-win-offensive-player-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">betting favorite to be the NFL\u2019s Offensive Player of the Year<\/a>, and from Lions coach Dan Campbell\u2019s comments, that sounds like a safe bet.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs is already one of the NFL\u2019s top running backs, but Campbell said the Lions have even bigger plans for what Gibbs can do in their offense, including lining up at wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGibbs, we didn\u2019t view Gibbs as a runner, he was a weapon,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cWe felt like Gibbs, this guy is gonna explode. Yes, he\u2019s a runner, he can run all schemes, he can run inside, outside, the perimeters, but he also can be lethal out of the backfield, and we\u2019re not even there yet. We feel like this guy can play some receiver. He\u2019s dynamic and he\u2019s a difference-maker. They don\u2019t come around often.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the Lions took Gibbs with the 12th overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft, some thought he was a reach. Campbell did not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d have taken him earlier. We would have taken him earlier,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs is the betting favorite to be the NFL\u2019s Offensive Player of the Year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-851430","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-lions","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116341474807180843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851430","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=851430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}