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There could also be dialogue in the near future regarding the extension of Pro Bowl tackle Penei Sewell, whose current contract expires after the 2025 campaign.

At the very least, Holmes has a lot of work to do to keep his squad intact.

“Now we know there’s a business aspect to it, but it’s easy to identify who these core players are and who these people really are,” Holmes said during an appearance on 97.1 The Ticket Thursday morning. will be who the key people are in our franchise.” . “We are preparing for the discussions we are talking about. People like Jonah Jackson, we talked about that. There will be a discussion about Penei Sewell, a discussion about St. Brown, a discussion about Jared (Goff). We will make many decisions but we will do our best.

Perhaps the most intriguing contract extension question facing the Lions is what the organization will do with Goff, their veteran signal-caller.

Goff, who is projected to make $20.975 million and cost $30.975 million against the cap in 2023, is coming off an impressive ’22 season.

During said campaign, Goff threw 29 touchdowns and threw just seven interceptions in 587 passing attempts, resulting in the lowest interception rate of his career (1.2%). He also did not throw an interception in the final nine games of the season with Detroit. And, during that same span, Goff compiled 15 touchdowns and led the Lions to a 7-2 record.

Additionally, on the season, he recorded a QBR of 61.1 – the fifth-best mark among all passers in 2022. The only year he amassed a higher QBR was in 2018, when he was a member of the Los Angeles Rams (63.6). .

And with another productive campaign, the eighth-year signal-caller could land a major new contract — and sooner rather than later.

“We maintained an open dialogue from the beginning,” Holmes said of the Lions’ contract negotiations with Goff. “We have been very transparent with Jared and his camp. We’ll keep it internal, but we’ll do what’s right for the franchise. And that’s where we’re going.

Veterans like Goff helped turn the narrative of the Lions franchise around and allowed Detroit to become a desirable landing spot for free agents.

The city is hardly the same as it was before the start of the Holmes-Dan Campbell regime.

“Everyone knows that we pretty much destroyed it as soon as we got here and that was intentional. We had a plan for what we were trying to do,” the third-year general manager expressed. “I would say it was night and day (in terms of the difference between this year’s squad and last year’s squad), because even looking back at it, we knew we wanted to build through the draft. draft and we believe we’ve done that and we’ll continue to do that.

“Just thinking about free agency periods, like the first one, (we have) minimal resources to work with. You almost actually ask the players if they want to come. That narrative has changed and you feel this change in people wanting to come here. Not just our guys, because of the culture we have, our guys also want to come back and re-sign. But this year it’s outside. (People) heard about what we were doing, saw the growth we were having, and they wanted to come here.