Graham Glasgow is a free agent, and it’s abundantly clear his time with the Detroit Lions is over. When free agency opens on Monday, the Lions will turn their attention away from their starting right guard and one of the most dependable offensive players on the team over the last few seasons.
Glasgow is going to get paid a hefty amount by another team, but the Lions have prioritized not spending his desired asking price on keeping the interior lineman in Detroit. Negotiations on a potential extension last summer never progressed, and the Lions devalued the position with their rotation at guard to the point it makes little sense to pay a premium to keep Glasgow.
Glasgow understands the business decision, but he’s not thrilled about it.
“I’m bummed that I’m not able to stay cause I love Michigan and I love the Detroit area, Ann Arbor,” Glasgow told Dave Birkett of the Free Press this week. “I’ve been here for almost about a decade now (he played in college at Michigan) and it’s awesome and I really, really like the guys in the locker room and I think we have a good team and a good group of guys.
So in that regards, it sucks. But you don’t play football forever, so I think that being able to go somewhere else and make some money is an exciting thing.”
Glasgow earned just over $3 million from the Lions in his 4-year contract he signed as a third-round pick back in 2016. He’s poised to get as much as 10 times that amount on the open market, with much of it guaranteed. That’s a price the Lions aren’t willing to pay. As long as they don’t pay within the same contractual ballpark to replace Glasgow, it makes sense to let him get paid elsewhere.
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