Detroit Lions signal CB Avonte Maddox

The Detroit Lions proceed so as to add to their secondary. Because the conclusion of the 2024 season, the crew has added three new defensive backs to the roster.

Veteran cornerback Avonte Maddox is becoming a member of Detroit for the 2025 NFL season. The 28-year-old began his profession with the Philadelphia Eagles after being drafted within the fourth spherical of the 2018 NFL Draft.

On social media, his vital different shared the signing together with her followers on Instagram.

“I informed Avonte at first of final season that I knew he’d find yourself on the Lions subsequent season. He checked out me like I used to be loopy as a result of out of the entire groups within the NFL how may I be so positive,” Maddox’s vital different Iman Williams posted. “Truthfully I used to be positive as a result of I knew it could be greatest for us, and after I say one thing’s going to occur and I consider it absolutely, 9x out 10 it occurs. Sure, I’ve tremendous powers.”

The proficient defensive again performed collegiately at Pittsburgh.

In his seven-year NFL profession, Maddox has appeared in 81 video games, and has recorded 4 interceptions, 270 tackles, 13 tackles for loss and eight pressured fumbles.

His 2023 season was derailed when he suffered a torn pectoral muscle in Week 2, however was in a position to return in late December.

Detroit’s latest defensive again has ties to town of Detroit.

In keeping with the Eagles team website, “His journey began on Detroit’s East Facet, the place his father, Michael, raised him as a single mother or father dwelling in Avonte’s grandmother’s home … By the point he entered center college, his father was in a position to afford a spot of his personal for them to reside in … Moved out of his father’s home to stick with his aunt and uncle when he began highschool … His father, aunt and uncle all labored in Detroit’s car trade.”

This week, Detroit has signed defensive backs Khalil Dorsey and Rock Ya-Sin. Additionally, the crew signed D.J. Reed to a free-agent settlement after Carlton Davis departed for the New England Patriots.