Don Muhlbach is returning to Detroit for a 17th season. The team announced today that they’ve re-signed the veteran long snapper.
While terms of the deal aren’t known, ESPN’s Michael Rothstein assumes that it’s a minimum-salary pact. Muhlbach has played the past few seasons under this kind of deal.
The 38-year-old has made all 244 of his career appearance with the Lions, and he’s only missed a single game since the start of the 2006 season. As Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com points out, Muhlbach is second in franchise history in games played (behind kicker Jason Hanson). The long snapper earned a pair of Pro Bowl nods (2012, 2018) during his career.
As Rothstein notes, the long snapper will some have competition for the gig in 2020. The organization signed James Fisher to a futures contract earlier this offseason.
Nice!
The TV networks should pass on the self absorbed QBs as game commentators and hire a guy like this. I’ll bet Muhlbach has hundreds of entertaining anecdotes that you would never get from a high profile star player.
Death. Taxes. Muhlbach.
God bless you Don Muhlbach. The only reason to even consider watching the lions.
That’s a bit much.