Are they Lions looking to replace one of their BEST players...?

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Mike Payton discusses the possibility of the Detroit Lions looking to replace star running back David Montgomery through the 2025 NFL Draft!

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00:00The Detroit Lions may already be looking for David Montgomery's replacement in the 2025 NFL draft. Let's talk about

00:09I make pain with a disease sports to trade today

00:12We're going to talk about how the Lions have already started to kind of look for David Montgomery's

00:17Replacement and how Montgomery might not be around as long as we think he might let's start off with the Montgomery part of this

00:23Obviously the last two years have been really good him and Jameer Gibbs the Sonic and Knuckles duo

00:28They have come very very close to to being one of those duos that can do a thousand yards each

00:33It's really hard to do really hard to achieve, but they keep almost doing it

00:39injuries pesky injuries get in the way, but

00:41the Lions

00:43rewarded Montgomery with a

00:45Nice two-year extension in October that would lead you to believe

00:48Hey

00:48They want him here until 2027 when that deal runs out

00:51But when you look at the way that contract is structured the ball is in the Lions court on this one

00:56They have the opportunity to

00:59Move on from Montgomery after the 2025 season and with very little dead money and they'll save 15 million

01:06Over the course of 2026 and 2027. That's something you have to pay attention to

01:10So if Montgomery comes out doesn't have that big of a year, you know, maybe they decide it's time but going into this season

01:17Everything's gonna be geared much more towards Jameer Gibbs

01:20and it was Dave Montgomery just considering some of the coaching hires like to char choice and John Morton and

01:26Moving Scotty Montgomery over to the receivers

01:28It just seems like this team really wants to run the ball a lot in 2025 and they want to run it

01:33Would you mirror Gibbs?

01:34So that could make Montgomery take a bit of a backseat with that said the Lions have already started to meet with some running backs

01:42That are gonna be out in this 2025 NFL draft

01:44For example, they had a top 30 visit with UC Davis running back land Larrison really interesting player that I

01:52Highly recommend you guys watch the film on this guy went over 2,000 all-purpose yards last year

01:58The only guy who had more yards in him was Ashton GT for Boise State who's gonna be potentially a top 15 pick in this draft

02:07Obviously, he's an FCS guy and you wonder, you know, has he faced any really good competition?

02:12But sometimes when you have it you have it. This guy could be a running back. He'd be a receiver

02:16Another guy is Josh Williams from LSU

02:20Penny Boone the Detroit native from Martin Luther King High School

02:24Really good for Toledo had a bad year for Central, Florida last year and then there's Boston colleges to Shawn Ward

02:31Those are just the guys that we know about so far the guys that are confirmed

02:34The Lions could continue to be looking they're going to all these pro days right now

02:39Somebody that you know, Jaden blue from Texas who just worked with Tashard choice. That's somebody you have to keep an eye on

02:46You don't know, you know, the Lions are not a needs-based drafting team

02:50they've said that a million times and they'll say it a million more times until people finally understand it and

02:56If they decide when they get to a certain point if the best player available

03:00There is a running back and they can kind of move forward whatever their plan is gonna be there

03:04They're gonna do it and they're showing that they have no problem doing that and looking at those players and coming up with a potential

03:11plan and

03:13This is just something that you have to think about something you have to be aware about

03:16While we love David Montgomery in Detroit, everybody loves him. Don't want him to go anywhere

03:20It's certainly a possibility that he could be and it's something that you have to be paying attention to

03:25So we'll see what happens in the draft in April until then. We'll see you next time

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