{"id":836239,"date":"2026-09-04T13:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836239\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:34:22","slug":"detroit-lions-rookie-derrick-moore-among-6-jersey-number-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836239\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions rookie Derrick Moore among 6 jersey number changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When NFL teams cut their roster down from 90 to 53 players, it frees up a bunch of jersey numbers, and we often see a bunch of players change their numbers before the season begins. That\u2019s exactly what has happened with the Detroit Lions in 2026, as six players will now have new numbers for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s a quick look at those players:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For Moore, his move from 9 to 8 now matches his college number at Michigan. Meanwhile, Lucky Jackson takes Moore\u2019s old number and snatches up one of the final single-digit numbers. Keith Abney took another single-digit number. Now, just 5 and 7 remain unclaimed amongst the single-digit numbers. (Seven is retired by the team for Dutch Clark).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">One unresolved issue here is that Dobbs was previously #6, which is now owned by Abney. It\u2019s not clear what Dobbs is changing his number to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">These number changes have yet to be reflected on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">team\u2019s official roster<\/a>, but they were announced on the NFL\u2019s daily transaction wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When NFL teams cut their roster down from 90 to 53 players, it frees up a bunch of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4992,349,99],"class_list":["post-836239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836239","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=836239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}