It’s interesting to take a look back at Lions write-ups to see how the team has changed demographically. And the answer is not as much as we (or at least I) thought. The 2024 roster was the best so far with 9 White starters and 20 on the roster. In ’23 it was 7 and 16, and in ’22 it was 8 and 18.
But going back to the pre-Dan Campbell era, who has been the organization’s head coach since the 2021 season, the 2018 Lions started the season with 7 White starters and 15 overall, while the 2017 team had 7 White starters and 20 overall. There were no write-ups in ’19, ’20 and ’21.
That 2017 team included RB Zach Zenner and WRs Jared Abbrederis and Jace Billingsley. As it turns out, Abbrederis had just 3 receptions that season, Billingsley played in 2 games as a WSTD, and Zenner had just 26 rushing yards. But the point is that the Lions weren’t an ultra-black team before Campbell’s hiring; what’s changed is that Campbell turned around what had been a bottom feeding organization for decades as far as wins and losses and transformed the Lions into a winner, while keeping them relatively White friendly.
For the beginning of the 2025 season Detroit has 8 White starters and 17 overall on the 53 man roster.
Jared Goff has been a model of elite consistency his entire career since being the first overall draft pick in 2018 by the Rams. In his first four seasons as a Lion, Goff has thrown for 16,887 yards, an average of over 4,200 per year, with 115 TD throws to just 39 picks. Yet he’s been under-rated his entire NFL career, and was even proclaimed a bust early on by the same “experts” and “gurus” who annually express their surprise and disgust just about every time a White player is taken in the first two rounds of the NFL Draft. Goff also stands out as being a “throwback” quarterback who is among the best even though he is slow afoot and rarely runs.
The Lions’ small decrease in White starters from 9 last year to 8 to begin the new one can be traced to the offensive line having 3 out of 5 lunch pail carriers starting compared to 4 last year as Kevin Zeitler has moved on to the woebegone Tennessee Titans. Now in his tenth season, starting LT Taylor Decker remains one of the best in the NFL. Center Graham Glasgow is also beginning his tenth NFL season, while Tate Ratledge is a rookie taken in the second round from Georgia and starts at right guard.
Ratledge is the only young White o-lineman on the roster as the only backups currently listed are named Giovanni Manu, Kingsley Eguakun, and Kayode Awosika. There are 3 White o-linemen on the practice squad including veteran tackle Dan Skipper, so maybe it’s not quite as bleak as it looks at first glance.
Sam LaPorta established himself as a rookie as one of the best tight ends in the NFL. His stats did decline a bit from his 2023 rookie season (86/889/10) to 60/726/7 last year, but the Lions have a lot of mouths to feed on offense and LaPorta should remain among the top TEs for a long time even if he doesn’t eventually become an annual thousand yard receiver ala Kelce and Kittle.
LaPorta is backed up by Brock Wright and Shane Zylstra. Kyle Allen backs up Goff.
Detroit moved up 32 spots in this year’s draft to select WR Isaac TeSlaa early in the third round. To move up they traded their 102nd 2025 third round pick and both of their 2026 third round picks to Jacksonville, an “astonishing” move that left “gurus,” “experts” and masses of DWFs all over the country slack-jawed in disbelief.
TeSlaa played at tiny Hillsdale College before switching to Arkansas for his final two seasons. Not heavily utilized at Arkansas, mostly due to the Razorbacks’ poor upsider at QB, TeSlaa still flashed a lot of talent, not dropping a single pass, to go along with elite athleticism, as demonstrated by his 9.97 RAS, 11th best all-time among 3,441 WR prospects.
TeSlaa looked great in all three preseason games and then scored a touchdown with a superb catch of his only target in the Lions’ season opener. He was fighting off an illness all week, so hopefully he’ll play more in coming weeks. He’s a far better talent than Kalif Raymond, the current starting third receiver, so one has to believe that any racial apprenticeship will be short-lived given how much the team gave up in order to draft him.
GM Brad Holmes, who is black, has been among the league’s best in drafting White players, maybe even the best, and whatever black privilege he has would still have been heartily attacked if TeSlaa had the look of a bust. Instead, it looks like the team found another “exciting White” ala DeJean and Blankenship to develop.
Holmes has also made his mark on defense, drafting MLB Jack Campbell in the first round in 2023, another “head scratcher” to DWFs and the hive mind anti-White media. Campbell has seamlessly taken over in the middle and to the surprise of no one who supports Caste Football, is a tackling machine, putting up a combined 131 tackles last season.
Originally drafted by the Saints in the third round in 2017, speedy Alex Anzalone is another stalwart on defense as the starting weakside linebacker. Plagued by injuries early in his career, Anzalone had three straight healthy seasons after coming over to Detroit before missing the last part of 2024 with a broken forearm. Largely reviled for a long time by know-nothing DWFs and the media hacks who feed them their misinformation, in reality Anzalone is a fine linebacker and is one of the Lions’ team captains.
Left end Aidan Hutchinson started off 2024 like he was going to break records, recording 7.5 sacks in the first five games before a season-ending injury to his tibia and fibula that required surgery. Hutchinson was the second overall pick by the Lions in 2022 and has more than justified that selection as he quickly joined the likes of T. J. Watt, Trey Hendricksen, Maxx Crosby, Nick Bosa and Andrew Van Ginkel among the best of the best pass rushing ends and outside linebackers. “Interesting” isn’t it how there are still so few White ends in the league despite “overachievers” disproportionately dominating at the top? As the Great Replacement agenda started in sports and has now spread everywhere at lightning speed, the NFL and the corporate media will fight every step of the way to keep the Big Lie of black athletic superiority going via the Caste System.
The Lions have been the best team in recent years along with the Rams as far as giving Whites an opportunity on defense. End John Cominsky was wasting away in Atlanta before thriving in Detroit. However after tearing an MCL last summer and missing all of 2024, Cominsky decided to hang ‘em up.
2022 sixth round pick Malcolm Rodriguez has gotten some extended play in the middle at times and looked very capable. He’s currently on IR.
Trevor Nowaske backs up Anzalone. Pat O’Connor out of Eastern Michigan is a backup tackle. Georgia safety Dan Jackson was drafted this year in the seventh round but suffered a major leg injury in practice and was placed on season ending IR. Maybe he’ll crack the backfield next season.
There are 9 Whites currently on the practice squad and IR. Seven of the eight White starters from last year return. Unlike some teams, who seem even worse than their paltry number of Whites, the Lions seem better as far as relative White friendliness than just the numbers of 8 and 17 who begin the new season on the active roster, though the 17 on the roster is admittedly disappointing.
QB: Jared Goff Kyle Allen
LT: Taylor Decker
C: Graham Glasgow
RG: Tate Ratledge
TE: Sam LaPorta Brock Wright Shane Zylstra
WR: Isaac TeSlaa
LE: Aidan Hutchinson
T: Pat O’Connor
WLB: Alex Anzalone Trevor Nowaske
MLB: Jack Campbell
P: Jack Fox
PK: Jake Bates
LS: Hogan Hatten
Practice Squad: WR Tom Kennedy (29 years old now with 14 career catches while being waived and re-signed 34 times), OT Dan Skipper, OG Mason Miller, C Michael Niese, TE Zach Horton, QB C. J. Beathard
Injured Reserve: LB Malcolm Rodriguez, S Dan Jackson, G/T Colby Sorsdal
Number of White Starters: 8
Number of Whites on the 53: 17
Grade: C-
But going back to the pre-Dan Campbell era, who has been the organization’s head coach since the 2021 season, the 2018 Lions started the season with 7 White starters and 15 overall, while the 2017 team had 7 White starters and 20 overall. There were no write-ups in ’19, ’20 and ’21.
That 2017 team included RB Zach Zenner and WRs Jared Abbrederis and Jace Billingsley. As it turns out, Abbrederis had just 3 receptions that season, Billingsley played in 2 games as a WSTD, and Zenner had just 26 rushing yards. But the point is that the Lions weren’t an ultra-black team before Campbell’s hiring; what’s changed is that Campbell turned around what had been a bottom feeding organization for decades as far as wins and losses and transformed the Lions into a winner, while keeping them relatively White friendly.
For the beginning of the 2025 season Detroit has 8 White starters and 17 overall on the 53 man roster.
Jared Goff has been a model of elite consistency his entire career since being the first overall draft pick in 2018 by the Rams. In his first four seasons as a Lion, Goff has thrown for 16,887 yards, an average of over 4,200 per year, with 115 TD throws to just 39 picks. Yet he’s been under-rated his entire NFL career, and was even proclaimed a bust early on by the same “experts” and “gurus” who annually express their surprise and disgust just about every time a White player is taken in the first two rounds of the NFL Draft. Goff also stands out as being a “throwback” quarterback who is among the best even though he is slow afoot and rarely runs.
The Lions’ small decrease in White starters from 9 last year to 8 to begin the new one can be traced to the offensive line having 3 out of 5 lunch pail carriers starting compared to 4 last year as Kevin Zeitler has moved on to the woebegone Tennessee Titans. Now in his tenth season, starting LT Taylor Decker remains one of the best in the NFL. Center Graham Glasgow is also beginning his tenth NFL season, while Tate Ratledge is a rookie taken in the second round from Georgia and starts at right guard.
Ratledge is the only young White o-lineman on the roster as the only backups currently listed are named Giovanni Manu, Kingsley Eguakun, and Kayode Awosika. There are 3 White o-linemen on the practice squad including veteran tackle Dan Skipper, so maybe it’s not quite as bleak as it looks at first glance.
Sam LaPorta established himself as a rookie as one of the best tight ends in the NFL. His stats did decline a bit from his 2023 rookie season (86/889/10) to 60/726/7 last year, but the Lions have a lot of mouths to feed on offense and LaPorta should remain among the top TEs for a long time even if he doesn’t eventually become an annual thousand yard receiver ala Kelce and Kittle.
LaPorta is backed up by Brock Wright and Shane Zylstra. Kyle Allen backs up Goff.
Detroit moved up 32 spots in this year’s draft to select WR Isaac TeSlaa early in the third round. To move up they traded their 102nd 2025 third round pick and both of their 2026 third round picks to Jacksonville, an “astonishing” move that left “gurus,” “experts” and masses of DWFs all over the country slack-jawed in disbelief.
TeSlaa played at tiny Hillsdale College before switching to Arkansas for his final two seasons. Not heavily utilized at Arkansas, mostly due to the Razorbacks’ poor upsider at QB, TeSlaa still flashed a lot of talent, not dropping a single pass, to go along with elite athleticism, as demonstrated by his 9.97 RAS, 11th best all-time among 3,441 WR prospects.
TeSlaa looked great in all three preseason games and then scored a touchdown with a superb catch of his only target in the Lions’ season opener. He was fighting off an illness all week, so hopefully he’ll play more in coming weeks. He’s a far better talent than Kalif Raymond, the current starting third receiver, so one has to believe that any racial apprenticeship will be short-lived given how much the team gave up in order to draft him.
GM Brad Holmes, who is black, has been among the league’s best in drafting White players, maybe even the best, and whatever black privilege he has would still have been heartily attacked if TeSlaa had the look of a bust. Instead, it looks like the team found another “exciting White” ala DeJean and Blankenship to develop.
Holmes has also made his mark on defense, drafting MLB Jack Campbell in the first round in 2023, another “head scratcher” to DWFs and the hive mind anti-White media. Campbell has seamlessly taken over in the middle and to the surprise of no one who supports Caste Football, is a tackling machine, putting up a combined 131 tackles last season.
Originally drafted by the Saints in the third round in 2017, speedy Alex Anzalone is another stalwart on defense as the starting weakside linebacker. Plagued by injuries early in his career, Anzalone had three straight healthy seasons after coming over to Detroit before missing the last part of 2024 with a broken forearm. Largely reviled for a long time by know-nothing DWFs and the media hacks who feed them their misinformation, in reality Anzalone is a fine linebacker and is one of the Lions’ team captains.
Left end Aidan Hutchinson started off 2024 like he was going to break records, recording 7.5 sacks in the first five games before a season-ending injury to his tibia and fibula that required surgery. Hutchinson was the second overall pick by the Lions in 2022 and has more than justified that selection as he quickly joined the likes of T. J. Watt, Trey Hendricksen, Maxx Crosby, Nick Bosa and Andrew Van Ginkel among the best of the best pass rushing ends and outside linebackers. “Interesting” isn’t it how there are still so few White ends in the league despite “overachievers” disproportionately dominating at the top? As the Great Replacement agenda started in sports and has now spread everywhere at lightning speed, the NFL and the corporate media will fight every step of the way to keep the Big Lie of black athletic superiority going via the Caste System.
The Lions have been the best team in recent years along with the Rams as far as giving Whites an opportunity on defense. End John Cominsky was wasting away in Atlanta before thriving in Detroit. However after tearing an MCL last summer and missing all of 2024, Cominsky decided to hang ‘em up.
2022 sixth round pick Malcolm Rodriguez has gotten some extended play in the middle at times and looked very capable. He’s currently on IR.
Trevor Nowaske backs up Anzalone. Pat O’Connor out of Eastern Michigan is a backup tackle. Georgia safety Dan Jackson was drafted this year in the seventh round but suffered a major leg injury in practice and was placed on season ending IR. Maybe he’ll crack the backfield next season.
There are 9 Whites currently on the practice squad and IR. Seven of the eight White starters from last year return. Unlike some teams, who seem even worse than their paltry number of Whites, the Lions seem better as far as relative White friendliness than just the numbers of 8 and 17 who begin the new season on the active roster, though the 17 on the roster is admittedly disappointing.
QB: Jared Goff Kyle Allen
LT: Taylor Decker
C: Graham Glasgow
RG: Tate Ratledge
TE: Sam LaPorta Brock Wright Shane Zylstra
WR: Isaac TeSlaa
LE: Aidan Hutchinson
T: Pat O’Connor
WLB: Alex Anzalone Trevor Nowaske
MLB: Jack Campbell
P: Jack Fox
PK: Jake Bates
LS: Hogan Hatten
Practice Squad: WR Tom Kennedy (29 years old now with 14 career catches while being waived and re-signed 34 times), OT Dan Skipper, OG Mason Miller, C Michael Niese, TE Zach Horton, QB C. J. Beathard
Injured Reserve: LB Malcolm Rodriguez, S Dan Jackson, G/T Colby Sorsdal
Number of White Starters: 8
Number of Whites on the 53: 17
Grade: C-
