If you’re a Lions fan in 2025, you can tip your hat to Brad Holmes . The man has been aggressively locking up the team’s core over the last two seasons. But it makes you think, is the franchise right to commit to all these guys for that money? A glance at the cap sheet would do that to you. And that’s what the offseason’s been about: equal parts happiness and spreadsheet anxiety.

Holmes’ recent push to lock down Detroit’s young core is bold. Locking in Jared Goff , Jameson Williams , Amon-Ra , Penei Sewell , Kerby Joseph , Alim McNeill , and Taylor Decker . Locking in all this talent in so little time is brilliant. A piece of work that cost upwards of $769 million. And when you look at that number, it sets in: what if the people we banked on let us down?

And that’s a

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