The free agent market is about to get another big name corner. The Lions are planning on releasing cornerback Justin Coleman in the coming days, a source told Tom Pelissero of NFL Network (Twitter link).
Detroit signed Coleman to a four-year, $36MM pact back in March of 2019, but he only ended up making it halfway through that deal. As Pelissero points out, he had been one of the highest paid slot cornerbacks in the league. The Lions will save between $5MM and $9MM in cap space depending on whether the move is given a post-June 1 designation or not, Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press tweets.
He struggled with a hamstring injury this past season that limited him to only 11 games. In those games he had 30 tackles and only one pass defended. The year before though in 16 games he had 54 tackles, three forced fumbles, 13 passes defended, and an interception.
He came into the league as an UDFA out of Tennessee in 2015 with the Vikings and then Patriots, and didn’t breakout until the 2017-18 seasons with the Seahawks. Coleman won’t get the $8.9MM he had been slated to make on the open market, but he should draw significant interest. He’s proven to be a solid slot corner in the past, and will only turn 28 later this month.
Detroit should hope that a high end QB falls to them at 7. And then fleece some desperate (Bears, SF, NE, LV et al) team will mortgage picks and players to trade up.
Goff can start this year but build up w/ young talent across the board.
Las Vegas isn’t trading for a qb. Unless it russell wilson or Watson
I agree. Jon is afraid to stake his name to a first round QB pick.
So when did the pats move to New Orleans or the saints change to NO pats ok ur probably confused what mean click the guys name go down to player transactions you get it
Bro you’re the one who’s confusing, you did not use any punctuation and your sentence literally makes no sense.
Yes! Keep the releases coming
Detroit got some nice draft capital agreeing to pick up that malodorous Goff contract, but they shouldn’t be thinking they can replace the whole team with 3 extra picks.
They have literally never once said, implied or alluded to thinking that in any way, shape or form.