{"id":858461,"date":"2026-04-07T07:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858461\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:50:15","slug":"detroit-lions-re-sign-db-avonte-maddox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858461\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions re-sign DB Avonte Maddox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 6, 2026, 6:49 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Detroit Lions<\/a> announced on Monday that they have re-signed defensive back Avonte Maddox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Maddox played in 14 games with the Lions last season, starting three. The 30-year-old defensive back totaled 32 tackles, had four passes defensed and intercepted a pass last season with the Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The 5-foot-9, 191-pound defensive back has played eight NFL seasons, playing in 95 regular-season games and starting 44. Maddox signed a one-year deal ahead of last season with the Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Terms of his new deal with Detroit were not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 6, 2026, 6:49 p.m. ET The Detroit Lions announced on Monday that they have re-signed defensive back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[95878,146,113,2506,7,147,6,52959,96502,95882,98049,95896,95888,95899,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-858461","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-tagavonte-maddox","19":"tag-tagnational-sports","20":"tag-tagnfl","21":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116362335245620009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858461","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=858461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}