The\u00a0Detroit Lions\u00a0were devastated by injuries at the safety position in the 2025 NFL season, including to both\u00a0Brian Branch\u00a0and\u00a0Kerby Joseph. Now, general manager Brad Holmes has added some depth to the position.<\/p>\n
The Lions have signed\u00a0former\u00a0Baltimore Ravens\u00a02017 sixth-round (186th overall) pick\u00a0Chuck Clark, and they will be his fourth team of his career.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s previously played for the Ravens, the\u00a0New York Jets, and the\u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n
A native of Philadelphia, Clark attended high school at King\u2019s Fork High School in Suffolk, Virginia. During his time at the school, he was ranked the No. 145 player in his region while also being the 34th overall ranked player in the state by ESPN.<\/p>\n
He would later commit to playing college football at Virginia Tech, where he would start 40 of the 52 games he played in while racking up 292 tackles.<\/p>\n
Eventually, he was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round (186th overall) of the 2017\u00a0NFL\u00a0Draft and signed to a four\u2013year, $2.57 million contract that included an initial signing bonus of $174,807.<\/p>\n
He would play for several years with the Ravens, eventually signing a three\u2013year, $15.30 million contract extension, which includes $10 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n
In 2023, he would be traded to the Jets in return for a seventh-round draft selection. However, his first season with New York was over before it even began when he suffered a torn ACL during OTAs. But the following offseason, he would be re-signed by the Jets to a one-year, $2 million contract.<\/p>\n
Starting 12 games that season, he would register 69 total tackles along with a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, two pass deflections, and a sack.<\/p>\n
He then signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers in July of last year. While with the Steelers, he amassed 51 tackles with three pass deflections and a forced fumble while starting in five games.<\/p>\n
Over the course of his career, he\u2019s amassed 504 total tackles with seven forced fumbles, five fumble recoveries, 37 pass deflections, five interceptions, two defensive touchdowns, and four and a half sacks.<\/p>\n
While making an appearance at the annual NFL owners\u2019 meetings, Lions head coach Campbell indicated the club wasn\u2019t finished yet in free agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cFree agency\u2019s just one piece of this. We are not done. Free agency is still going on, and then we\u2019ve got the draft, and then you\u2019ve got free agency after the draft,\u201d\u00a0Campbell told the team website on Monday. \u201cTrades are available through whenever that is, and the waiver wire after training camp, which we\u2019ve found guys. That\u2019s how we found\u00a0John Cominsky\u00a0four years ago. There\u2019s so many things that you have at your disposal that we are far from done.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lions are coming off a season in which, despite finishing with a winning record of 9-8, their reign at the top of the NFC North came to a close thanks to the emergence of Ben Johnson and the\u00a0Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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