April 5, 2026, 1:45 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Even though his Detroit Lions release<\/a> wound up a little messy<\/a>, reports indicate that former Lions<\/a> offensive tackle Taylor Decker isn’t interested in joining one of Detroit’s NFC North rivals.<\/p>\n In an exclusive sit-down with Justin Rogers<\/a> of Detroit Football Network, Decker touched on his frustrations that several key Lions figures didn’t reach out to thank him for his time in the Motor City following his release. Lions head coach Dan Campbell said last week at the NFL’s annual league meetings that Detroit appreciated everything Decker did<\/a> and that he would call in the future.<\/p>\n Despite any potential lingering iciness, Decker doesn’t want to tarnish his Lions legacy<\/a> by playing for either the Bears<\/a> or Packers<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wants to play for a winner (but) he\u2019s kinda thinking about, \u2018Is it cheap to win somewhere else after you\u2019ve invested all your energy emotionally and physically into one franchise?\u2019<\/p>\n “I will tell you that he\u2019s pretty anti-playing for the Bears and Packers. That\u2019s the Lions background. I know Ben Johnson did it and that was the right situation for him, but Taylor feels kinda dirty about the idea. It just isn\u2019t interesting to him,” Rogers said of Decker<\/a>.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n A 10-year franchise left tackle in Detroit, Decker’s future had been in limbo<\/a> since the end of last season. Ultimately, even after announcing his intentions to return<\/a>, Decker wound up requesting his release and the Lions cut ties.<\/p>\n For more\u00a0Lions<\/a>\u00a0coverage, follow us on X,\u00a0@TheLionsWire<\/a>, and give our\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page a like.\u00a0Follow Josh on X,\u00a0@JoshOnLions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 5, 2026, 1:45 p.m. ET Even though his Detroit Lions release wound up a little messy, reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[95878,146,113,2506,7,147,5264,6,52959,96502,95882,96512,116859,95896,95888,95897,95883,99521,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-856037","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-mi","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnfllions","17":"tag-sstsnlions","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagdetroit","20":"tag-tagjustin-rogers","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagoverall-negative","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-tagtaylor-decker","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116354903427333920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856037","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=856037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}