{"id":498112,"date":"2026-03-01T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498112\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:45:08","slug":"report-david-montgomery-wants-out-of-detroit-lions-looking-for-day-3-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498112\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: David Montgomery wants out of Detroit, Lions looking for Day 3 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lions General Manager Brad Holmes said in January that the team <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/lions-expect-to-discuss-trading-david-montgomery-this-offseason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">would consider<\/a> trading running back David Montgomery this offseason and a report on Sunday indicates that\u2019s something Montgomery would like to see happen. <\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that Montgomery <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48045815\/2026-nfl-combine-latest-buzz-news-rumors-free-agency-draft-qbs-trades-offseason#rbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">would like to move on<\/a> to another team. Fowler adds that the Lions would be looking for a \u201cdecent\u201d Day 3 pick in the draft in return for a player who has moved behind Jahmyr Gibbs in the backfield pecking order in Detroit. <\/p>\n<p>Montgomery responded to the report on Twitter <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MontgomerDavid\/status\/2028114460360273971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">by writing<\/a> \u201cdamn, Dmo told you that?\u201d and Holmes said this week that the Lions would love to have him back, although he acknowledged that \u201ca player <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/brad-holmes-on-david-montgomery-we-want-to-put-2025-in-the-rear-view-move-forward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has to want<\/a> to be in a certain place as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery, who is heading into his eighth NFL season, ran 158 times for 716 yards and eight touchdowns in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions General Manager Brad Holmes said in January that the team would consider trading running back David Montgomery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-498112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498112","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=498112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}