{"id":998085,"date":"2026-09-11T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/998085\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:57:15","slug":"detroit-lions-right-guard-tate-ratledge-feeling-more-comfortable-heading-into-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/998085\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions right guard Tate Ratledge feeling more comfortable heading into Year 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Lions still have some question marks on the offensive line heading into\u00a0Sunday’s regular-season opener vs. New Orleans, but one of the spots they feel really good about is at right guard with second-year player Tate Ratledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By all accounts, Ratledge had a terrific training camp. He benefitted from the daily matchup against defensive lineman Alim McNeill<\/a>, who Ratledge insists is headed toward a monster 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n

“I’m glad I get to now block someone who is not (McNeill),” Ratledge said. “He was a genuine problem during camp. He forced me to figure out things about myself to be better and it’s all rooted from pad level.”<\/p>\n

That’s one area Ratledge, who stands 6-foot-6 and 322 pounds, has worked hard to improve over the last year. He’s in a good spot going into Game 1 of Year 2 and said he feels like a completely different player heading into his second season.<\/p>\n

“Definitely a lot more comfortable heading into Week 1 this year than I was last year, if you couldn’t tell from that game,” Ratledge said with a smile about his shaky debut in Green Bay as a rookie. “I don’t foresee cutting any three-technique loose on the minus-one-yard line this year, knock on wood.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions still have some question marks on the offensive line heading into\u00a0Sunday’s regular-season opener vs. New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":998086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[644,38604,146,113,2506,7,416,147,56338,415,6,1735,628],"class_list":["post-998085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-christian-mahogany","tag-derrick-moore","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","tag-lions","tag-news-notebook","tag-news-twentyman","tag-nfl","tag-sione-vaki","tag-tate-ratledge"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117253704452081144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998085","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=998085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/998086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}