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The Lions re-sign long snapper Scott Daly

Daly was the team’s long snapper from 2021 until he got injured midway through last season

Cross long snapper off the Detroit Lions’ list of needs for the 2024 offseason. Scott Daly is back in Detroit.

The Lions have re-signed Daly, their long snapper from the last three seasons. The 30-year-old comes back to the team after not initially being tendered as a restricted free agent.

Daly has been a consistent presence since taking over for venerable Don Muhlbach, who now serves on the Lions coaching staff and works with Daly daily. Daly injured his knee during Detroit’s Week 8 win over the Raiders on Monday Night Football and missed the rest of the year. He was replaced by veteran Jake McQuaide, who remains available on the free agent market.

Lions officially tender James Houston among several transactions

Lions officially tender James Houston among several transactions to start the new NFL league year

The start of the new NFL league year commenced at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. The flip to 2024 means transactions that had been pending and long-reported are now able to be made official.

Such was the case for the Detroit Lions with a few deals that had been in the works. Among those were the qualifying tender offers for restricted and exclusive rights free agents on the roster.

MOst of these were already known, but the Lions made it official. They extended qualifying offers to just one of the six eligible restricted free agents. Tight end Brock Wright will be back in Detroit for $2.9 million.

The following restricted free agents are now on the open market and no longer under contractual control or compensation ties to the Lions:

  • CB Jerry Jacobs
  • CB Chase Lucas
  • LB Anthony Pittman
  • LS Scott Daly
  • DT Benito Jones
  • CB Khalil Dorsey

For exclusive rights free agents, or ERFAs, the Lions officially tendered five of the six eligible players. Most notable is EDGE James Houston, whose status had been kept quiet by all parties. Houston will play for the NFL league minimum for the Lions in 2024 and will become a restricted free agent following the season if he’s on the roster in some form for at least six games.

The trade for Carlton Davis and recent re-signings of RB Zonovan Knight, CB Emmanuel Moseley and TE Shane Zylstra were also made official on the league’s transaction wire.

Notre Dame Football: 12 Former Golden Domers Remain in NFL Divisional Playoffs

Who do you like to advance to the NFL conference championships?

The NFL Divisional Playoffs are set and 12 former Notre Dame players are moving on to the second round.

Wild Card weekend saw one great game between the Lions and Rams and five other ones that left quite a bit to be desired.

As the NFL playoff field gets cut nearly in half, so do the amount of former Notre Dame players participating in the postseason.  The Irish saw 10 of their 22 former players on playoff teams eliminated this weekend.

So who is left and how did they fare on Wild Card weekend?

Lions lose long snapper to injury vs. Raiders

Not often is an injury to a long snapper significant but in the case of of Scott Daly his absence will be felt

Not often is an injury to a long snapper significant, but in the case of Scott Daly his absence will be felt.

Late in the win against the Raiders on Monday night, Daly was injured on a field goal attempt. Daly suffered a knee injury and was able to limp off the field upon further examination it was shown that he will be out for some time.

Dan Campbell told the Detroit News that if they needed a replacement in the game, they didn’t having not attempted another kick, that Aidan Hutchinson and Alex Anzalone would have served in the role. The team is entering a bye week so they have time to find a replacement but it seems practice squad member Jake McQuaide is going to be it.

The former two-time Pro Bowl long snapper entered the NFL in 2011 and quickly earned a reliable role on the St. Louis Rams roster. McQuaide played his college football at Ohio State so he should be familiar with Big Ten fans.

The Lions as mentioned are on a bye in week nine and will return against the Chargers on November 12.

4 Lions vets who might not make the team in 2023

4 Lions vets who are in real peril of not making the Detroit roster in 2023

There is a flip side of the coin to the excitement of all the offseason additions in Detroit. Some Lions players who had roles in the past are going to lose their spots because of the influx of new talent.

It’s the life cycle in the NFL. New players come in and replace older ones that are no longer good enough for their roles. For the Detroit Lions in 2023, it means a few guys need to perform better than they have recently to hold onto roster spots.

The Lions bring back 5 exclusive rights free agents including TE Brock Wright

The Lions bring back 5 exclusive rights free agents including TE Brock Wright

The Detroit Lions announced they have made the required contract tender offers to five exclusive rights free agents, including starting TE Brock Wright.

The quintet includes Wright, fellow TE Shane Zylstra, long snapper Scott Daly, DT Benito Jones and LB Anthony Pittman.

The move is more procedural than anything. Exclusive rights free agents, or ERFAs, are a cut-and-dry situation. If the team wants to keep them, they offer a 1-year deal worth the league minimum. If no such tender offer is made, the player becomes an unrestricted free agent.

The Lions had two other ERFAs, OG Tommy Kraemer and RB Craig Reynolds. Detroit re-signed Reynolds separately, which leaves Kraemer, who missed the 2022 season with a back injury.

One potential free agent for every position on the Lions offense

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Every Notre Dame player currently on an NFL training camp roster

Lots of former Irish talent in the NFL

Part of being an alumnus of a supremely successful collegiate football is seeing them getting an opportunity at the next level. For Notre Dame, the list of former players getting their shot in the NFL is large, very large. Find out below every former Irish star (in alphabetical order) and which NFL team they are with in training camp.

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Preseason bowl projections: Hurricane warning for Notre Dame?

It’s a U…of Notre Dame thing.

As the college football regular season inches closer and closer, we’ve been getting hit with more and more preseason predictions and projections for how just about every one of the 131 Football Bowl Subdivision programs will do. The latest is a set of bowl projections for every bowl game this season from veteran college football scribe Bill Bender of The Sporting News.

Bender sends Notre Dame to a bowl game we’ve seen several outlets project the Irish to already, but the opponent Bender projects is about as compelling a potential bowl opponent as there could be for the Irish, short of it being someone in the College Football Playoff.

Bill Bender’s Notre Dame Bowl Projection:

Orange Bowl – December 30, 2022
Notre Dame vs. Miami (FL)

If Notre Dame isn’t playing in the College Football Playoff (which I’m not sold on to be frank), then go ahead and sign me up for this one. The disaster that was the 2017 game at Miami, where the Irish were obliterated, 41-8, still leaves a bad taste in any Notre Dame fan’s mouth.

And whenever you put Notre Dame and Miami in the same sentence, the collective antenna of college football fans everywhere is raised.

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The Lions have the cheapest group of specialists in the NFL in 2022

No team will pay less salary cap room to the punter, kicker and long snapper positions than the Lions in 2022

No NFL team will spend less salary cap room in 2022 on their specialists than the Detroit Lions. The core punter, kicker and long snapper payroll in Detroit tally up at just $3.51 million for 2022.

That is the lowest figure in the entire league. The Dallas Cowboys are next at just over $4 million. Seattle has the highest specialist payroll at $10.5 million. The Seahawks have the league’s highest-paid punter in Michael Dickson and fifth-highest-paid kicker in Jason Myers, each of whom earns significantly more than what the Lions will pay their entire current quartet.

The low figure really stands out because the Lions currently employ two kickers. Veteran Austin Seibert will battle second-year Riley Patterson for the kicking gig to join long snapper Scott Daly and punter Jack Fox as the Lions’ specialists.

All four specialists will earn the league minimum for their experience level this year. None will earn more than Seibert’s $965,000.

Fox and Daly are among the better players at their positions from 2021. The kicking shoes of longtime Lion Matt Prater are still struggling to get filled, however.

All salary information is provided by Spotrac. 

Lions re-sign long snapper Scott Daly

Daly had a very successful first season in Detroit taking over for the retired Don Muhlbach

Scott Daly is back for a second season as the Detroit Lions’ long snapper. Daly has signed his exclusive rights free agent (ERFA) tender offer from the team.

Daly’s agent, Paul Sheehy, revealed the news of the signing, which was expected. The terms of the ERFA tender mean Daly will earn the veteran league minimum for 2022.

Daly had a strong first season in Detroit. He did not have a single errant snap in either punts or placekicks all year. The 28-year-old did register one tackle in coverage.

He had major shoes to fill in taking over for Don Muhlbach, who had been the team’s long snapper since 2004. Muhlbach retired during training camp and joined the Lions as a special assistant.

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