{"id":853290,"date":"2026-04-04T14:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/853290\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:03:29","slug":"lions-reveal-2026-offseason-workout-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/853290\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions Reveal 2026 Offseason Workout Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Lions<\/a> have revealed their plans for their offseason spring workouts.<\/p>\n

Led by sixth-year head coach Dan Campbell, Detroit will have three separate sessions of organized team activities, along with a mandatory minicamp, this season as they prepare for the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n

Detroit\u2019s first day of team workouts will be April 20, which is the week of the NFL Draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The team will begin organized team activities, or OTAs, with the first session scheduled for May 27-29. They will host three day sessions each of the following two weeks, set for June 2-4 and June 9-11.<\/p>\n

Detroit will conclude its team workouts before summer break with mandatory minicamp on June 16-17.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, the Lions elected to shorten OTAs by holding only two sessions. However, the team has made the call to add a third and maximize their offseason process after a 9-8 finish in 2025.<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s training camp start date will be revealed later in the offseason. Detroit has also already announced some changes to their training camp, as they will not hold joint practices with an opponent during camp for the first time since Campbell\u2019s first season in 2021.<\/p>\n

Detroit is looking to rebound after a last-place finish in 2025, as they went from the No. 1 seed in the NFC the previous year to a disappointing 9-8 record in 2025.<\/p>\n

Despite the down year, Campbell remains optimistic<\/a> that the team will have what it takes to get back on the right track.<\/p>\n

Though they lost some significant contributors to their success during the offseason this year, Campbell thinks there are leaders in waiting on the roster who will embrace the step up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is it. That\u2019s what we believe. We know that other teams have done it different, we both know that,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cThere\u2019s different ways to get to where you want to go. We\u2019ve always believed, he and I both, that\u2019s where it starts. We\u2019ve got the hard part down. <\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve got the quarterback, we\u2019ve got two receivers, we\u2019ve got a tight end, we\u2019ve got the back, we\u2019ve got a freakin\u2019 tackle, we\u2019ve got freakin\u2019 Hutch, we\u2019ve got Jack, we\u2019ve got Branch. So we\u2019ve got these pieces in certain areas, and then we\u2019ve just got to fill in around it and help complement those guys. We\u2019re not far off. Nobody said it\u2019s gonna be easy, but the future looks bright<\/a> if you\u2019re asking me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions have revealed their plans for their offseason spring workouts. Led by sixth-year head coach Dan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853291,"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-853290","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\/116346815116230856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853290","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=853290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}