4 months ago
- Lions
- Published: Jan. 06, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
ALLEN PARK — Graham Glasgow made 1 point clear correct disconnected nan bat Monday: unless thing changes pinch his contract, he remains a Detroit Lion heading into adjacent season.
Following nan Lions’ regular-season finale against nan Chicago Bears — a 19-16 triumph — reports retired of nan visitors’ locker room described an affectional scene, pinch Glasgow reportedly among respective players reflecting connected what comes next, including nan anticipation of retirement.
Glasgow added discourse to those reports, clarifying that while he remains nether contract, his playing early is still undecided.
“We’ll see,” Glasgow said erstwhile asked if he plans to play adjacent season, moreover if it is not successful Detroit.
While cleaning retired his locker room, Glasgow said his offseason process of unwinding will dwell of weightlifting, playing video games — Counter-Strike for those who attraction — spending clip pinch his family, getting healthy, and past assessing wherever he is arsenic he contemplates his adjacent move.
Glasgow is coming disconnected a 2025 run that looked different from overmuch of his 2nd stint successful Detroit, spending this astatine halfway alternatively than his much acquainted spot astatine 1 of nan 2 defender positions.
“The displacement was not thing Glasgow initially prepared aliases practiced for. Entering nan offseason, he believed he would stay astatine guard, a domiciled he has mostly occupied since returning to Detroit successful 2024.
“In nan offseason, I thought I would play correct guard, and past I didn’t play immoderate center, I think, during OTAs. So I thought I was conscionable going to beryllium playing guard,” Glasgow said. “And past after, like, a week of camp, they moved maine to nan center. And past I was (the) center.
“I mean, I don’t really deliberation location was, like, a mentality to it really. It was conscionable much for illustration you’re preparing for something, and past you get thrown a curveball, and past you sewage to woody pinch it.”
Playing 800 snaps astatine halfway this season, Pro Football Focus gave Glasgow a 57.4 wide grade, which ranks 33rd retired of 39 centers that played. He carried a walk blocking people of 60.9 and a tally blocking people of 55.4
While he only allowed 1 sack this season, he did let 18 pressures and 8 backmost hits. While nan PFF numbers don’t show nan full communicative of Glasgow’s play astatine center, nan oculus trial besides shows he’s been a cardinal portion of nan breakdowns wrong nan Lions’ interior violative line.
When speaking to reporters connected Monday, Lions coach Dan Campbell alluded to perchance shuffling players and coaches astir to gauge nan champion fresh for nan squad adjacent season. While that does not explicitly awesome moving Glasgow astir aliases moving connected from him altogether, his play this play warrants it being 1 of nan changes.
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