Blount is not going to be a Lion. Drop the BLUNT! LOL. Seriously though, Blount had 1 good year and has sucked since then.

Isn't Blount the same guy who punched(sucker punched) two different teammates? Once in college, once at Tampa? No thanks.

Jason Hanson wants to keep kicking
Posted by Darin Gantt on March 12, 2013, 12:04 PM EDT

If the Lions still want Jason Hanson, they have their chance.

The veteran kicker, who will turn 43 this summer, has decided he wants to play again this year, according to USA Today‘s Mike Garafolo. He’ll be an unrestricted free agent at 4 p.m.

He went back and forth this offseason, not sure whether he wanted to commit to a 22nd NFL season.

He’s been a remarkably consistent player, and frankly, until he falls off a cliff performance-wise, the Lions should keep him around.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... p-kicking/

The second punch was in training camp with the Titans and was to another players helmet which is incredibly common. Jeff Fisher even said he was not disappointed about the incident and it wasn't the first punch from a player in camp that year. He later went to Tampa and the only major incident he had in the news was when he got a 15 yard personal foul for pushing a guys head back when they were jawing at each other in a really chippy game with the Saints. That kind of foul happens all the time in physical games and was only a news issue because the media looks for any way to bring up the punch from Oregon. The guys three years removed from his big "character issue" and he has been a good teammate even with getting no playing time because of Martin.

Detroit Lions give DE Willie Young a second-round tender

With only one defensive end under contract, the Detroit Lions didn't want to risk losing restricted free agent Willie Young on the open market.

To ensure he'll be back with the team next season, the Lions placed a second-round tender on the fourth-year pass-rusher out of North Carolina State.

The move will cost the Lions $2.023 million, approximately $700,000 more than if the team had tendered Young with an original-round contract.

As a seventh-round draft pick in 2010, an original-round tender would have allowed teams to negotiate a long-term deal with Young, and if the Lions couldn't match, the compensation would have only been a seventh-rounder. By using the higher tender, the cost to sign Young is now a second-round pick, something another team is unlikely to pay.

Young is coming off a disappointing season in 2012, failing to register a single sack after emerging as one of the league's more efficient pass-rushers the year before. With Kyle Vanden Bosch released, and Cliff Avril expected to sign elsewhere as a free agent, Young is in line for a larger role next season.

Young is the second restricted free agent tendered by the Lions. Offensive tackle Jason Fox was given an original-round tender on Monday. The team has yet to announce its intentions with its final restricted free agent, safety Amari Spievey

$2 millions seems like too much for Young, too bad there isnt such thing as a 5th or 6th round tender to bait some team into taking him and getting an extra pick

We could have saved $700k and submitted an "original round tender," wasn't he a 6th round pick?

IMO the FO was probably worried that we were going to lose him for a 6th. That said, I wouldn't be broken hearted if we did. It would have saved us a $1mill in cap space, and gave us an extra pick. IMO MSU's Gholston > than Willie Young right now (he's already bigger with a bigger frame).

He was a 7th round pick and I have to think someone would have at least tried to get him for that.

It's possible, but it's tough to say. He really hasn't done anything, and at $1.3 million for the original round tender he would still be about 3Xs as expensive as even a 5th round rookie. Also, he would only be on the squad for one year before being unrestricted.

That said, if someone would have signed him as a RFA and given up a 7th, if he got significant playing time, would he still be in consideration for a 2014 comp. pick?

If another team had singed him they would have made it a multi year deal, they don't just get him for his RFA tender contract.

I'm sure someone could have crafted a 2-3 year deal that we couldn't or wouldn't match and gotten him for a 7th and an ok salary. I wish we would have signed him to a multi year deal like some teams have been doing with their RFA instead of just tendering him. They're giving lower 1st year pay (lower than the RFA tender) in exchange for more years and more money overall.