{"id":510126,"date":"2026-03-02T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510126\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:43:09","slug":"report-lions-trade-montgomery-to-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510126\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Lions trade Montgomery to Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions are trading running back David Montgomery to the Houston Texans, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2028500559913750781?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Houston will send Detroit a fourth-round and seventh-round pick, plus offensive lineman Juice Scruggs, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2028501576944431174?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rapoport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery spent the last three seasons with the Lions, forming an electric backfield tandem with running back Jahmyr Gibbs. The duo was nicknamed &#8220;Sonic and Knuckles&#8221; for their contrasting styles, with Gibbs being the dynamic speedster and Montgomery a downhill rusher. Gibbs reacted to the reported trade by posting a broken heart emoji with an image of the video game characters.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jahmyr Gibbs weighs in on the David Montgomery trade, via IG. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kHWTpEZjQf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kHWTpEZjQf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2028550386110345601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montgomery rushed for 2,506 yards and 33 touchdowns across his three years in Detroit, including a career-high 13 scores in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans lacked a lead back last year due to the absence of Joe Mixon. He missed the entire season with a foot injury and his future with the team is uncertain. The leading rusher for Houston last year was rookie back Woody Marks with 703 yards.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second trade the Texans made Monday after <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3489512\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/news\/3489512\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> shipping offensive lineman Tytus Howard to the Cleveland Browns for a fifth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions are trading running back David Montgomery to the Houston Texans, sources told NFL Network&#8217;s Ian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-510126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}