{"id":831499,"date":"2026-08-31T03:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831499\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:48:13","slug":"2026-detroit-lions-establish-initial-53-man-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831499\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Detroit Lions establish initial 53-man roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Detroit Lions have established their initial roster for the 2026 season. And while it\u2019s important to remember this isn\u2019t truly the final 53-man roster\u2014there is never a final one\u2014it features the main core of players the Lions will rely upon to try and bring home the Lombardi in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Detroit will still work to add players, fill out their practice squad, and potentially maneuver players around injury lists, but for now, here are the 53 players who have made the Lions\u2019 initial 2026 team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">IR to return: C Cade Mays<br \/>Non-Football Injury\/reserve: OT Giovanni Manu<\/p>\n<p>Interior defensive line (5)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">PUP\/reserve list: Kerby Joseph, Brian Branch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions have established their initial roster for the 2026 season. And while it\u2019s important to remember&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4992,2132,99],"class_list":["post-831499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroit-lions-roster","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831499","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=831499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}