UPDATE, 4:55pm: Daniels’ deal is worth $9.1MM, with $7.8MM of it being fully guaranteed, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.com (Twitter link). That’s a great payday for Daniels to get this time of year, and he might end up making more than if the Packers hadn’t released him in the first place. Daniels had been set to earn $8.1MM in the final year of his deal with Green Bay.
UPDATE, 4:23pm: It’s a one-year deal for Daniels, according to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press.
3:22pm: The Lions will sign defensive lineman Mike Daniels, ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter tweets. The two sides are finalizing things now, but the deal should be completed soon. 
The Packers extended Daniels via four-year, $41MM contract during the 2015 season. For the most part, the deal has paid off. Daniels earned a Pro Bowl nod in 2017, though he was less productive in 2018 before ultimately landing on IR in December with a foot injury.
In his Pro Bowl campaign, Daniels notched five sacks and 49 tackles across 14 games. Last year, he had two sacks and 18 tackles in ten contests.
With the Lions, he’ll join fellow D-Line newcomers Trey Flowers, Darius Kilgo, Austin Bryant, and P.J. Johnson. Flowers is currently on the PUP list while Kilgo and Damon Harrison are on NFI, so Daniels will be especially valued in the near term.
Many expected the former Packers lineman to land with the Browns, but it was not meant to be. John Dorsey and fellow team execs Alonzo Highsmith and Eliot Wolf were in Green Bay when Daniels was drafted in the 2012 fourth round, but the Lions possibly had the greater need and the higher offer.
Daniels reportedly wanted to land with a Super Bowl contender so he must believe in the Lions’ potential, even though they are not one of Vegas’ odds-on leaders for the 2019 season.
Wanted a contender. Clearly the 4th place team in the NFC North.
Lol true statement. Definitely was about money.
He was offered more money by other teams…….. so check your sources man
I think he just wants to crush A-A-Ron twice a year.
he can’t stay healthy for 16 games. I’ll be surprised if he faces him twice. but he was a classy man especially in community
Not sure where he is going to play. Already crowded DL room. They got Snacks, Robinson, Hand, and are in talks with RJ-F.
Lol former Packers looking to sign in division…classic!
Lions are a contender….for the first pick in the draft!
You seriously think they are worse then the Dolphins or Redskins? Lions are at worst a .500 team
Have you ever seen Stafford win a division title? I agree Skins and Fins will be bums; so will the Lions.
I have seen Stafford throw for the most yards of any QB in their first 10 years in the league. And have the most 4th quarter comebacks of any quarter back since 2016
Stafford is an overpaid bust just like Sam Bradford
Stafford is not a bust. He will have hall of fame numbers by the time he retires. He can’t be to blame for the lions being incompetent and not putting a team around him
If Stafford makes the hall w/o 1 division title to his name, then I’ll stop watching. The hall is based off winning before stats. Cousins passes for over 4,000 yards a season, is he now canton worthy?
Stafford has played 10 season. And through 10 season he has more yards more touchdowns and less INTs then Brees. And people try to call him a bust. Smh
He also has the longest active streak of games played
He also has less wins than Brees. I’m not saying he’s terrible, but he ain’t great.
Agreed I’m not saying he is an elite QB but “bigtoro21” calling him a bust is just ridiculous
Hard to say what’s going to be considered HoF stats in this era. But no way he’s going to the hall if he never even wins a playoff game.
Chiefs were interested. I’d say they qualify as a contender.
Matt Stafford would have won a playoff game had it not been for a flag pick up against the cowboys. I’m a lions fan as sad as that is to say but I’m excited about this defense could be top 10 and put that with healthy kerryon Johnson and Marvin Jones this team will be a contender in the Nfc this year.. Better than pack Minn and even Kiel with bears… At worse 9-7 team
Detroit’s D line is gonna be nasty. They were overall a top 10 Def last year and added the best DE and nickel corner in free agency and now a former pro bowl DT.
Lookout Green Bay… Lions are coming for 3rd in the North.
If he is wanting to sign with a Super Bowl contender, then apparently he is a complete idiot because Detroit has ZERO chance of making it to the Super Bowl!! He is obviously more worried about money.
If the defense holds their ground and can produce they won’t need much out of Stafford to win any games. The offense will be the question- how will they utilize the two tight end sets more often ? How will Stafford look in play action or rolling out more? We will see soon.