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Mike Payton talks about the Detroit Lions' approach to the 2025 NFL Draft and beyond, with some indications that the team is already planning on the eventual replacement of RB David Montgomery.
*The Lions Might ALREADY Be Looking For David Montgomery's REPLACEMENT...*
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The Detroit Lions may already be looking for David Montgomery's replacement in the 2025 NFL Draft
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Let's talk about it. Hi, Mike Payton with A to Z Sports Detroit
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Today we're going to talk about how the Lions have already started to kind of look for David Montgomery's replacement
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and how Montgomery might not be around as long as we think he might
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Let's start off with the Montgomery part of this. Obviously, the last two years have been really good
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him and Jameer Gibbs, the Sonic and Knuckles duo. They have come very, very close to being one of
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those duos that can do a thousand yards each. It's really hard to do, really hard to achieve
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but they keep almost doing it. Injuries, pesky injuries get in the way, but the Lions rewarded
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Montgomery with a nice two-year extension in October. That would lead you to believe, hey
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they want him here until 2027 when that deal runs out. But when you look at the way that
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contract is structured the ball is in the lion's court on this one they have the opportunity to
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move on from montgomery after the 2025 season with very little dead money and they'll save 15
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million over the course of 2026 and 2027 that's something you have to pay attention to so if
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montgomery comes out doesn't have that big of a year you know maybe they decide it's time but
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going into this season everything's going to be geared much more towards jameer gibbs than it was
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David Montgomery, just considering some of the coaching hires like Deshaard Choice and
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John Morton and moving Scotty Montgomery over to the receivers. It just seems like this team really wants to run the ball a lot in 2025, and they want
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to run it with Jameer Gibbs. So that could make Montgomery take a bit of a backseat
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With that said the Lions have already started to meet with some running backs that are going to be out in this 2025 NFL draft For example they had a top 30 visit with UC Davis running back Lan Larrison really interesting player that I highly recommend you guys
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watch the film on this guy. Went over 2,000 all-purpose yards last year
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The only guy who had more yards than him was Ashton G&T for Boise State
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who's going to be potentially a top 15 pick in this draft. Obviously, he's an FCS guy, and you wonder
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Has he faced any really good competition? But sometimes when you have it, you have it
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This guy could be a running back. He could be a receiver. Another guy is Josh Williams from LSU
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Penny Boone, a Detroit native from Martin Luther King High School. Really good for Toledo
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Had a bad year for Central Florida last year. And then there's Boston College, Mr. Sean Ward
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Those are just the guys that we know about so far, the guys that are confirmed. The Lions could continue to be looking
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They're going to all these pro days right now. somebody that jaden blue from texas who just worked with tashar choice that's somebody you
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have to keep an eye on you don't know you know the lions are not a needs-based drafting team
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they've said that a million times and they'll say it a million more times until people finally
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understand it and if they decide when they get to a certain point if the best player available
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there is a running back and they can kind of move forward whatever their plan is going to be there
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they're going to do it and they're showing that they have no problem doing that and looking at
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those players and coming up with a potential plan and this is just something that you have to think
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about something you have to be aware about while we love david montgomery in detroit everybody loves
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him don't want him to go anywhere it's certainly a possibility that he could be and it's something
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that you have to be paying attention to so we'll see what happens in the draft in april until then
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we'll see you next time
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