According to a report from ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter, the Detroit Lions are signing veteran linebacker K.J. Britt off of the New England Patriots\u2019 practice squad.<\/p>\n
Britt was a fifth-round draft pick for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021, and ended up playing 59 games for them over four seasons\u2014including 15 starts. Last year, he was with the Miami Dolphins, playing in all 17 games and starting one. This year, he failed to make the Patriots\u2019 53-man roster, but they kept him around on the practice squad, and he was elevated for the team\u2019s Week 5 game against the Raiders.<\/p>\n
For most of his career, Britt has served as a special teamer. Across just over five seasons in the NFL, Britt has played 1,303 special teams snaps vs. 994 on defense\u2014and he has logged over 250 special teams snaps in four of his first five NFL seasons.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a good chance that will be Britt\u2019s role early in Detroit. With the Lions likely to lean more heavily on the likes of Malcolm Rodriguez, Derrick Barnes, and Trevor Nowaske on defense\u2014with potentially Amen Ogbongbemiga and Joe Bachie mixed in\u2014the Lions will need more experienced depth on special teams and reserves on defense.<\/p>\n
Britt should be a relatively good fit in Detroit, as a high-effort player who was a captain at Auburn.<\/p>\n
Detroit should have a good handle on who Britt is as a person and player, as he overlapped with current Lions defensive line coach Kacy Rodgers during his entire time with the Buccaneers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a report from ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter, the Detroit Lions are signing veteran linebacker K.J. Britt off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4992,14290,349,99],"class_list":["post-904033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroit-lions-transactions","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904033","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=904033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}