{"id":849169,"date":"2026-09-16T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849169\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:12:16","slug":"detroit-lions-joey-porter-jr-trade-rumors-dan-campbell-shuts-down-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849169\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions Joey Porter Jr. trade rumors: Dan Campbell shuts down talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Tuesday, though, Lions head coach Dan Campbell was asked if the significant amount of cap space\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/salary-cap-space\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">estimated to be second-most in the NFL<\/a>\u2014could be used on some sort of big acquisition now or before the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI don\u2019t see that,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cI would say this, though: it gives us options, whether that be our own guys or\u2014it just gives us flexibility here before the season starts because there\u2019s a lot that can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s worth noting that Campbell was not specifically asked about Porter\u2014and he wouldn\u2019t be able to talk about him directly, either, as it would be considered tampering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As for other potential uses of that cap space, the Lions have admitted publicly that they are interested in making both tight end Sam LaPorta and safety Brian Branch long-term players in this organization\u2014both are eligible for contract extensions. Branch remains on the Physically Unable to Perform list after suffering an Achilles injury in December, while LaPorta is back in action after losing the last half of his 2025 season to a back injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Detroit also likes to have a significant amount of freed cap space to manage their roster in case of injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">So, while things could always change, it doesn\u2019t appear the Lions are currently interested in making a big roster move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, though, Lions head coach Dan Campbell was asked if the significant amount of cap space\u2014estimated to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4992,4993,349,99],"class_list":["post-849169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroit-lions-quotes","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849169","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=849169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}