ACCORDING TO REPORT:  After an injury-plagued season, the Lions re-signed a talented player.

Marcus Davenport, who missed the majority of the 2024 season due to injuries, is returning to the Detroit Lions.

Davenport, who signed a one-year deal last offseason to come to Detroit, inked a new one-year deal worth $4.75 million with the Lions to return for the 2025 season. The veteran defender will compete for snaps to work opposite of Aidan Hutchinson on the Lions’ defensive line.

The veteran defender played in just two games with the Lions last season. A groin injury forced him to miss the team’s Week 2 game against Tampa Bay, and he suffered a torn triceps in Week 3 against Arizona that cost him the remainder of the season.

Davenport finished the year with a half-sack and two combined tackles. Injuries have limited him throughout his career, as he has played 69 career games in seven seasons.

In 2023, Davenport played four games for the Minnesota Vikings before joining Detroit as a first-round pick of the New Orleans Saints. He has four passes defensed, 151 total tackles, and 24 sacks during his career.

Davenport had nine sacks in 11 games during his best season with the Saints in 2021. Since both were employed in New Orleans when Davenport started his career with the team in 2018, his connections to former defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn and Lions coach Dan Campbell initially drew him to Detroit.

Lions general manager Brad Holmes has operated similarly to this in the past, as he re-signed cornerback Emmanuel Moseley last offseason after he suffered a season-ending injury in his only game with the team in 2023.