The Lions proposed changing the seeding structure of the league's playoffs to favor a team's overall record over its place in ...

This would have shaken things up tremendously in this year’s playoffs, as the NFC North was extremely competitive with the Lions, Vikings and Packers all reaching the postseason. The division ...

Terrion Arnold is changing numbers. The Detroit Lions cornerback will switch from No. 0 to No. 6 as he heads into his second ...

(It didn’t. The Vikings lost to the NFC West champion Los Angeles Rams in their playoff opener but would not have faced the Lions a third time in the divisional round anyway given the third-seed ...

The April 24-26 NFL draft is approach and each team's plan of attack may have changed based on the results of free agency.

Under the Lions' proposal, the playoffs would simply be seeded 1-7 by record. Had that been in place last year, the Vikings would've been the No. 3 seed (based on losing a strength of victory ...

The Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings shared the best record in the NFC when they met in a winner-take-all game in Week 18 of the regular season last year. The winner got the No. 1 seed ...

which fielded three playoff teams last season -- the Lions (15-2), Minnesota Vikings (14-3) and Green Bay Packers (11-6). The Lions received the NFC's No. 1 seed, but the Vikings were seeded No. 5 ...

The Detroit Lions announced earlier this month some number changes among their players, including a switch by cornerback ...

In a playoff-like atmosphere in Week 18, Detroit held Jefferson to a modest 54 yards in a 31-9 win after Jefferson went for a combined 414 yards and three touchdowns in the previous three meetings.

When I saw this proposal had come from the Lions, my first – naïve – reaction was that they’d felt some sort of compassion for their NFC North brethren Vikings, whom Detroit swept last season to win ...