{"id":397331,"date":"2026-01-09T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397331\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:04:07","slug":"lions-expect-to-discuss-trading-david-montgomery-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397331\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions expect to discuss trading David Montgomery this offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lions running back David Montgomery was phased out of the offense in favor of Jahmyr Gibbs in 2025, and Montgomery may be out of Detroit entirely in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>General Manager Brad Holmes said moving Montgomery to a team that would use him more is a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/lions\/2026\/01\/08\/detroit-lions-rb-david-montgomery-appear-headed-for-split\/88091871007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">conversations that we\u2019re going to have<\/a> to have because got a lot of respect for that player,\u201d Holmes said, via the Detroit Free Press. \u201cHe deserves to be in a situation where his skill set can be utilized. And so yeah, would love it for it to be here, but if it can\u2019t be here, then you would have to just see what you can work out the best for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holmes said he\u2019d still like to find a way to keep Montgomery, who has two years left on his contract and is due $6 million in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope it doesn\u2019t, because we love David Montgomery. He\u2019s a good football player and wish we would have been able to get more utilization from him,\u201d Holmes said.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Montgomery had a career-low 158 carries for a career-low 716 yards in 2025. He did not start any games, while Gibbs started all 17. If the Lions can find a a team that views Montgomery as a starter, it would make sense for all sides for the Lions to trade him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions running back David Montgomery was phased out of the offense in favor of Jahmyr Gibbs in 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-397331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}