{"id":50647,"date":"2025-07-31T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50647\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:33:08","slug":"source-lions-sweeten-alex-anzalones-contract-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50647\/","title":{"rendered":"Source &#8211; Lions sweeten Alex Anzalone&#8217;s contract for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 31, 2025, 01:07 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56caffee-178d-f6f2-a076-b277486b8c32\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a> recently adjusted linebacker <a data-player-guid=\"edc62765-05ca-c0c6-bf90-a207b4cc5614\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3043107\/alex-anzalone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Anzalone<\/a>&#8216;s contract for the 2025 season, adding $250,000 to his base salary, boosting it to $6.25 million, which they also guaranteed, a source told ESPN&#8217;s Field Yates.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions also added incentives to Anzalone&#8217;s contract to increase his potential earnings for this season.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45795320\/alex-anzalone-disappointed-contract-talks-lions\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1522136_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45704222\/2025-nfl-training-camp-detroit-lions-updates-buzz-intel-position-battles\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1525208_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Anzalone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45795320\/alex-anzalone-disappointed-contract-talks-lions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">had expressed disappointment<\/a> with how his negotiations with the Lions had gone.<\/p>\n<p>Anzalone, 30, is set to become an unrestricted free agent after this season. In 2024, he started in all 10 appearances, while logging the team&#8217;s fourth-most tackles (63) including seven for loss.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-year veteran has been a starter since joining the Lions in 2021 and has 395 tackles, 6.5 sacks and two interceptions in four seasons with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 31, 2025, 01:07 PM ET The Detroit Lions recently adjusted linebacker Alex Anzalone&#8216;s contract for the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-50647","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\/50647","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=50647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}