Seattle Seahawks vs. Detroit Lions

2. Can speeding assault maintain rolling?

Detroit’s passing assault hasn’t fairly clicked on all cylinders but this season, regardless of rating seventh within the NFL in passing getting into tonight’s sport. Detroit’s floor sport, nonetheless, has been rolling to the tune of 163 speeding yards per sport by means of the primary three weeks of the season and are coming off a 188-yard efficiency on the bottom within the win over Arizona final week. Detroit’s gained not less than 4.0 yards on 53 of their 101 speeding makes an attempt this season, the third finest fee within the league.

Seattle ranks fifteenth within the NFL towards the run, permitting 116 yards on the bottom per sport. The Lions are at their finest offensively after they can dictate the tempo with their run sport and use the passing assault as a complement. Search for them to determine the run early and sometimes tonight.

3. Changing defensive starters

Detroit misplaced defensive finish Marcus Davenport for the remainder of the season and SAM linebacker Derrick Barnes for the foreseeable future. Davenport has been a a productive participant for a Lions’ protection that’s second within the NFL in QB hits (15) and high 10 in complete pressures (57) by means of the primary three weeks. Third-year defensive lineman Josh Paschal is predicted to get the majority of the snaps in Davenport’s absence, although the Lions have choices to rotate totally different gamers reverse Aidan Hutchinson. It is necessary the Lions get manufacturing from that spot or groups will use increasingly more assets to attempt to decelerate Hutchinson on the opposite aspect.

As for changing Barnes, Glenn stated he has a ton of confidence within the depth at linebacker, in all probability greater than some other place group on his protection.

“Now we have quite a lot of guys in that linebacker room that may wish to play that function,” Glenn stated this week. “And I’ve stated this each week, that is a room that I extremely respect the best way that they function. I extremely respect the friendship and the closeness that they’ve in that room, and I extremely respect the flexibility that we’ve in that room.”