1: Detroit allowed just one rushing play of 50-plus yards last season, tied for the second fewest in the league.<\/p>\n
20 & 35: Joseph leads all safeties in interceptions (20) and passes defended (35) since entering the NFL in 2022.<\/p>\n
58: Passes of 20-plus yards allowed by the Lions’ defense in 2025, tied for the fourth most in the league.<\/p>\n
151: Points allowed by the Lions’ defense outside the red zone, which was the second most outside of Tampa Bay (156) last season \u2013 16 touchdowns (tied for the most) and 13 field goals.<\/p>\n
1,539: Yards after catch allowed by Detroit’s defense in 2025. Only Buffalo allowed fewer (1,376).<\/p>\n
1999: Branch is the only NFL player since at least 1999 to have 30 passes defended, 15 tackles for loss, five interceptions, 4.5 sacks and three forced fumbles through three-career seasons.<\/p>\n
Quotable: “He’s done some of these different things at different places to try to help. So, I feel good about that. I feel good about that we’ve done everything we can and so has he,” Campbell said of Joseph’s knee rehab. “And so, we won’t know. I mean honestly, we probably won’t know until we get into the thick of training camp.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1: Detroit allowed just one rushing play of 50-plus yards last season, tied for the second fewest in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[14450,1524,4624,9036,2852,146,113,2506,7,416,3220,147,48595,415,6,7040],"class_list":["post-945269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-avonte-maddox","tag-brian-branch","tag-christian-izien","tag-chuck-clark","tag-dan-jackson","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","tag-kerby-joseph","tag-lions","tag-loren-strickland","tag-news-twentyman","tag-nfl","tag-thomas-harper"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116918189001831827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945269","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=945269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}