Graham Glasgow agrees to sign with Lions

Posted by Josh Alper on March 16, 2023, 2:52 PM EDT
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Guard Graham Glasgow started his NFL career with the Lions and he’s heading back to Detroit as a free agent.

Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Glasgow has agreed to a one-year deal worth up to $4.5 million. Glasgow was released by the Broncos earlier this year.

Glasgow spent the last three seasons in Denver after opening his career with a four-year run in Detroit. Glasgow was a starter for the majority of his time in both spots and wrapped up his Denver run by making 13 starts last season.

The Lions have all their starters back on the offensive line, so Glasgow will likely kick off his second stint with the Lions as a bench option.

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11 responses to “Graham Glasgow agrees to sign with Lions”

  1. Welcome back to the Lions – you will find everything SO much better than when you were last!

  2. Goodbye Evan Brown, who did a heck of a job for a very low dollar contract for 2 years. Welcome back Graham Glasgow.

  3. I like this approach. Have strong back ups available on the OL. Makes it easier to rest someone if they’re starting to get hurt. Without a good OL no team has a shot at winning.

  5. We don’t technically have our starters back for next season. Vaitai, or starting RG in 21 was hurt all last year and still might be injured and/or might be cut. So Glasgow will more than likely be the starting RG this year.

  7. I can’t help but wonder what this means for Big-V, if anything. He’s making an awful lot of money to have a starting quality guard sit on the bench who’s just as good (better?) and much much cheaper.

  8. Really solid addition. He’ll replace Evan Brown as the primary backup at center, and likely be the starter at right guard. I doubt the Lions retain Halapoulivaati Vaitai at this point. He’ll be a post June 1 release, saving the team $9.5 million. The Lions can still use a mid-round pick in the coming draft on an interior offensive lineman to develop.

  9. The Lions have all of their starters back, assuming they don’t cut Vaitai. But I assume they’re going to either restructure his contract or cut him. I don’t know if he’s better than Glasgow.

    This signing definitely fills a need for Detroit either way. They’ll likely draft an offensive lineman for the future in the mid-rounds, as well.

  10. Chris Simms Doobie says:
    March 16, 2023 at 3:12 pm
    I like this approach. Have strong back ups available on the OL. Makes it easier to rest someone if they’re starting to get hurt. Without a good OL no team has a shot at winning.

    The Lions offensive line had a real tough time filling in when Brown was out last year. Vaitai was already on the shelf for the year. Getting depth on the line is a sneaky area for the Lions to find extra production in 2023 over 2022.

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