Ford Field, Detroit, MI — opened 2002 · 65,000 seats · dome. 4× champions · last 1957.
Detroit, Michigan · founded 1930
Ranked by team-only production — stats accumulated only while with the Detroit Lions (1999–present, the per-category box-stat era).
| # | Player | Pos | Seasons | Team stats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew Stafford | QB | 12 (2009–2020) | 45,109 pass yds · 282 TD · 1,198 rush yds · 14 TD |
| 2 | Barry Sanders | RB | 10 (1989–1998) | 15,269 rush yds · 99 TD · 2,921 rec yds · 10 TD |
| 3 | Calvin Johnson | WR | 9 (2007–2015) | 11,619 rec yds · 83 TD |
| 4 | Herman Moore | WR | 11 (1991–2001) |
All-time franchise leaders by category — modern era (1999–present, the per-category box-stat era).
The four greatest players in franchise history by legacy score — all-era, honors-driven, weighted by career share.
Win% by decade since first NFL season. All-time: 47% across 96 seasons.
All-time regular-season dominance (min 10 games).
Ranked by rivalry intensity (volume × competitiveness × recency).
HOF-caliber players whose injury history cut their peak short — on this franchise's roster.
Score-weighted distribution of 25 best players in franchise history, by position group (KV-H basis, 1999+).
Most elite player: Barry Sanders (RB) — top 0% all-time at their position.
Every season since 1930: record, finish, head coach + how it ended. Per-category team stats (passing/rushing/receiving/defense) are filled for 1999+.
| Year | W-L-T | Finish | PF | PA | Pass | Rush | Rec | Sk | INT | Coach | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9-8 | 4th | 481 | 413 | 4,567 | 2,041 | 4,567 | 48 | 13 | Dan Campbell | — |
| 2024 | 15-2 | 1st | 564 | 342 | 4,718 | 2,488 |
| 9,174 rec yds · 62 TD |
| 5 | Jared Goff | QB | 6 (2021–2026) | 22,936 pass yds · 161 TD |
| 6 | Amon-Ra St. Brown | WR | 6 (2021–2026) | 6,624 rec yds · 49 TD |
| 7 | Billy Sims | RB | 5 (1980–1984) | 5,106 rush yds · 42 TD · 2,072 rec yds · 5 TD |
| 8 | Johnnie Morton | WR | 8 (1994–2001) | 6,431 rec yds · 35 TD |
| 9 | Jahmyr Gibbs | RB | 4 (2023–2026) | 4,084 rush yds · 46 TD · 1,672 rec yds · 11 TD |
| 10 | Brett Perriman | WR | 6 (1991–1996) | 5,264 rec yds · 25 TD |
| 11 | Robert Porcher | DE | 12 (1992–2003) | 96 sk |
| 12 | Charlie Sanders | TE | 10 (1968–1977) | 4,817 rec yds · 31 TD |
| 13 | Golden Tate | WR | 5 (2014–2018) | 4,741 rec yds · 22 TD |
| 14 | Marvin Jones | WR | 6 (2016–2023) | 4,331 rec yds · 36 TD |
| 15 | Scott Mitchell | QB | 5 (1994–1998) | 12,647 pass yds · 79 TD |
Score is a transparent production estimate, not the proprietary Knox rating.
| 4,698 |
| 37 |
| 16 |
| Dan Campbell |
| Lost Divisional |
| 2023 | 12-5 | 1st | 461 | 395 | 4,606 | 2,311 | 4,606 | 41 | 16 | Dan Campbell | Lost Conference Championship |
| 2022 | 9-8 | 2nd | 453 | 427 | 4,444 | 2,179 | 4,444 | 39 | 12 | Dan Campbell | — |
| 2021 | 3-13-1 | 4th | 325 | 467 | 3,884 | 1,886 | 3,884 | 30 | 11 | Dan Campbell | — |
| 2020 | 5-11 | 4th | 377 | 519 | 4,397 | 1,499 | 4,397 | 24 | 7 | Matt Patricia (4–7)Darrell Bevell (1–4) | — |
| 2019 | 3-12-1 | 4th | 341 | 423 | 4,187 | 1,649 | 4,187 | 28 | 7 | Matt Patricia | — |
| 2018 | 6-10 | 4th | 324 | 360 | 3,844 | 1,660 | 3,844 | 43 | 7 | Matt Patricia | — |
| 2017 | 9-7 | 2nd | 410 | 376 | 4,470 | 1,221 | 4,470 | 35 | 19 | Jim Caldwell | — |
| 2016 | 9-7 | 2nd§ | 346 | 358 | 4,327 | 1,310 | 4,327 | 26 | 10 | Jim Caldwell | Lost Wild Card |
| 2015 | 7-9 | 3rd | 358 | 400 | 4,463 | 1,335 | 4,463 | 43 | 9 | Jim Caldwell | — |
| 2014 | 11-5 | 2nd§ | 321 | 282 | 4,284 | 1,422 | 4,284 | 42 | 20 | Jim Caldwell | Lost Wild Card |
| 2013 | 7-9 | 3rd | 395 | 376 | 4,650 | 1,792 | 4,650 | 33 | 15 | Jim Schwartz | — |
| 2012 | 4-12 | 4th | 372 | 437 | 5,139 | 1,613 | 5,139 | 33 | 11 | Jim Schwartz | — |
| 2011 | 10-6 | 2nd§ | 474 | 387 | 5,071 | 1,534 | 5,128 | 41 | 21 | Jim Schwartz | Lost Wild Card |
| 2010 | 6-10 | 3rd | 362 | 369 | 4,001 | 1,613 | 4,001 | 42 | 14 | Jim Schwartz | — |
| 2009 | 2-14 | 4th | 262 | 494 | 3,471 | 1,616 | 3,471 | 25 | 9 | Jim Schwartz | — |
| 2008 | 0-16 | 4th | 268 | 517 | 3,299 | 1,323 | 3,306 | 29 | 4 | Rod Marinelli | — |
| 2007 | 7-9 | 3rd | 346 | 444 | 4,214 | 1,288 | 4,214 | 37 | 17 | Rod Marinelli | — |
| 2006 | 3-13 | 4th | 305 | 398 | 4,208 | 1,124 | 4,208 | 27 | 12 | Rod Marinelli | — |
| 2005 | 5-11 | 3rd | 254 | 345 | 3,021 | 1,471 | 3,021 | 29 | 19 | Steve Mariucci (4–7)Dick Jauron (1–4) | — |
| 2004 | 6-10 | 3rd | 296 | 350 | 3,124 | 1,777 | 3,124 | 38 | 14 | Steve Mariucci | — |
| 2003 | 5-11 | 4th | 270 | 379 | 2,988 | 1,350 | 2,988 | 26 | 14 | Steve Mariucci | — |
| 2002 | 3-13 | 4th | 306 | 451 | 3,168 | 1,477 | 3,168 | 30.5 | 9 | Marty Mornhinweg | — |
| 2001 | 2-14 | 5th | 270 | 424 | 3,969 | 1,398 | 3,969 | 30 | 15 | Marty Mornhinweg | — |
| 2000 | 9-7 | 4th | 307 | 307 | 2,967 | 1,735 | 2,967 | 25 | 24 | Bobby Ross (5–4)Gary Moeller (4–3) | — |
| 1999 | 8-8 | 3rd§ | 322 | 323 | 4,019 | 1,201 | 4,019 | 42 | 16 | Bobby Ross | Lost Wild Card |
| 1998 | 5-11 | 4th | — | — | 3,398 | 1,897 | 3,330 | 37.5 | 8 | Bobby Ross | — |
| 1997 | 9-7 | 3rd§ | — | — | 3,605 | 2,337 | 3,394 | 34.5 | 6 | Bobby Ross | Made Playoffs |
| 1996 | 5-11 | 5th | — | — | 3,463 | 1,677 | 3,408 | 26.5 | 7 | Wayne Fontes | — |
| 1995 | 10-6 | 2nd§ | — | — | 4,499 | 1,567 | 4,467 | 28 | 10 | Wayne Fontes | Made Playoffs |
| 1994 | 9-7 | 3rd§ | — | — | 1,456 | 1,935 | 2,708 | 14 | 4 | Wayne Fontes | Made Playoffs |
| 1993 | 10-6 | 1st | — | — | 2,943 | 1,714 | 2,206 | 25.5 | 6 | Wayne Fontes | Made Playoffs |
| 1992 | 5-11 | 5th | — | — | 3,150 | 1,622 | 2,312 | 20.5 | 4 | Wayne Fontes | — |
| 1991 | 12-4 | 1st | — | — | 2,974 | 1,850 | 1,867 | 10 | 6 | Wayne Fontes | Lost Conference Championship |
| 1990 | 6-10 | 3rd | — | — | 3,328 | 1,927 | 1,970 | 6 | 3 | Wayne Fontes | — |
| 1989 | 7-9 | 3rd | — | — | 3,282 | 1,992 | 1,402 | 9 | 1 | Wayne Fontes | — |
| 1988 | 4-12 | 4th | — | — | 2,572 | 881 | 1,581 | 2 | 2 | Darryl Rogers (2–9)Wayne Fontes (2–3) | — |
| 1987 | 4-11 | 5th | — | — | 2,598 | 723 | 1,863 | 1 | 1 | Darryl Rogers | — |
| 1986 | 5-11 | 3rd | — | — | 2,166 | 851 | 749 | 0 | 0 | Darryl Rogers | — |
| 1985 | 7-9 | 4th | — | — | 2,952 | 343 | 1,470 | 0 | 0 | Darryl Rogers | — |
| 1984 | 4-11-1 | 4th | — | — | 246 | 777 | 1,466 | 0 | 0 | Monte Clark | — |
| 1983 | 9-7 | 1st | — | — | 2,577 | 1,224 | 937 | 0 | 0 | Monte Clark | Made Playoffs |
| 1982 | 4-5 | 8th§ | — | — | 411 | 700 | 513 | 0 | 0 | Monte Clark | Made Playoffs |
| 1981 | 8-8 | 2nd | — | — | 2,358 | 1,655 | 673 | 0 | 0 | Monte Clark | — |
| 1980 | 9-7 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 1,303 | 621 | 0 | 0 | Monte Clark | — |
| 1979 | 2-14 | 5th | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Monte Clark | — |
| 1978 | 7-9 | 3rd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Monte Clark | — |
| 1977 | 6-8 | 3rd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 170 | 0 | 3 | Tommy Hudspeth | — |
| 1976 | 6-8 | 3rd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 545 | 0 | 2 | Rick Forzano (1–3) Tommy Hudspeth (5–5) | — |
| 1975 | 7-7 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 486 | 0 | 5 | Rick Forzano | — |
| 1974 | 7-7 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 532 | 0 | 4 | Rick Forzano | — |
| 1973 | 6-7-1 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 433 | 0 | 4 | Don McCafferty | — |
| 1972 | 8-5-1 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 416 | 0 | 3 | Joe Schmidt | — |
| 1971 | 7-6-1 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 502 | 0 | 3 | Joe Schmidt | — |
| 1970 | 10-4 | 2nd§ | — | — | 0 | 0 | 544 | 0 | 7 | Joe Schmidt | Made Playoffs |
| 1969 | 9-4-1 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 656 | 0 | 8 | Joe Schmidt | — |
| 1968 | 4-8-2 | 4th | — | — | 0 | 0 | 533 | 0 | 7 | Joe Schmidt | — |
| 1967 | 5-7-2 | 3rd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | Joe Schmidt | — |
| 1966 | 4-9-1 | T–6th | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Harry Gilmer | — |
| 1965 | 6-7-1 | 6th | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Harry Gilmer | — |
| 1964 | 7-5-2 | 4th | — | — | 0 | 48 | 16 | 0 | 0 | George Wilson | — |
| 1963 | 5-8-1 | T–4th | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George Wilson | — |
| 1962 | 11-3 | 2nd° | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George Wilson | Made Playoffs |
| 1961 | 8-5-1 | 2nd° | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George Wilson | Made Playoffs |
| 1960 | 7-5 | T–2nd° | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George Wilson | Made Playoffs |
| 1959 | 3-8-1 | 5th | — | — | 0 | 270 | 34 | 0 | 0 | George Wilson | — |
| 1958 | 4-7-1 | 5th | — | — | 0 | 254 | 60 | 0 | 0 | George Wilson | — |
| 1957 | 8-4 | 1st | — | — | 0 | 621 | 141 | 0 | 0 | George Wilson | Won League Championship |
| 1956 | 9-3 | 2nd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Buddy Parker | — |
| 1955 | 3-9 | 6th | — | — | 0 | 95 | 428 | 0 | 0 | Buddy Parker | — |
| 1954 | 9-2-1 | 1st | — | — | 0 | 240 | 564 | 0 | 0 | Buddy Parker | Made Playoffs |
| 1953 | 10-2 | 1st | — | — | 0 | 337 | 502 | 0 | 0 | Buddy Parker | Won League Championship |
| 1952 | 9-3 | T–1st° | — | — | 0 | 106 | 90 | 0 | 0 | Buddy Parker | Won League Championship |
| 1951 | 7-4-1 | T–2nd | — | — | 0 | 356 | 421 | 0 | 0 | Buddy Parker | — |
| 1950 | 6-6 | 4th | — | — | 0 | 386 | 534 | 0 | 0 | Bo McMillin | — |
| 1949 | 4-8 | 4th | — | — | 0 | 402 | 190 | 0 | 0 | Bo McMillin | — |
| 1948 | 2-10 | 5th | — | — | 0 | 97 | 210 | 0 | 0 | Bo McMillin | — |
| 1947 | 3-9 | 5th | — | — | 0 | 302 | 375 | 0 | 0 | Gus Dorais | — |
| 1946 | 1-10 | 5th | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Gus Dorais | — |
| 1945 | 7-3 | 2nd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Gus Dorais | — |
| 1944 | 6-3-1 | T–2nd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Gus Dorais | — |
| 1943 | 3-6-1 | 3rd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Gus Dorais | — |
| 1942 | 0-11 | 5th | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Bill Edwards (0–3) John Karcis (0–8) | — |
| 1941 | 4-6-1 | 3rd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Bill Edwards | — |
| 1940 | 5-5-1 | 3rd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George "Potsy" Clark | — |
| 1939 | 6-5 | 3rd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Gus Henderson | — |
| 1938 | 7-4 | 2nd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dutch Clark | — |
| 1937 | 7-4 | T–2nd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dutch Clark | — |
| 1936 | 8-4 | 3rd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George "Potsy" Clark | — |
| 1935 | 7-3-2 | 1st | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George "Potsy" Clark | Won League Championship |
| 1934 | 10-3 | 2nd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George "Potsy" Clark | — |
| 1933 | 6-5 | 2nd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George "Potsy" Clark | — |
| 1932 | 6-2-4 | 3rd° | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George "Potsy" Clark | Made Playoffs |
| 1931 | 11-3 | 2nd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | George "Potsy" Clark | — |
| 1930 | 5-6-3 | 8th | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Hal Griffen | — |
Full-history records + coaches from Wikipedia (facts-only); per-category team stats + points are exact for 1999+ (nflverse). Playoff box-score splits aren't yet in the free corpus.
Stadium, market-population, title and handle data are curated public facts (Wikipedia/Census/official league facts). Fan Interest, Barometer and reach tier are transparently derived from those facts — weighted (market 0.4, venue 0.2, titles 0.25, heritage 0.15), min-max within NFL — derived structural proxy, not a survey. No fan survey, sentiment scrape, or follower count is used.
Every position room Detroit Lions has passed down, steadiest first. The LB room is their most stable — 2 holders across 46 years, a new one every 12.5 on average.
+1 more room with a shorter average hold.
Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1947–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.
Every NFL player the encyclopedia attributes to the Detroit Lions from profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth (complete 1999+, legend-era via validated Wikipedia/NFL.com grids).
Most prominent 8 of 48 shown · all 48 QB →
Most prominent 8 of 122 shown · all 122 RB →
Most prominent 8 of 132 shown ·
Most prominent 8 of 77 shown · all 77 TE →
Most prominent 8 of 98 shown · all 98 OL →
Most prominent 8 of 168 shown · all 168 DL →
Most prominent 8 of 132 shown · all 132 LB →
Most prominent 8 of 246 shown · all 246 DB →
Most prominent 8 of 36 shown · all 36 Specialists →
NFL players who spent their entire encyclopedia-attributed career with the Detroit Lions — ranked by seasons of service. Tenure is the span the corpus attributes (skill rows complete 1999+, legend grids validated).
+260 more one-club men with the franchise.
NFL players who wore the Detroit Lions crest along the way but played for three or more franchises in all — the well-traveled careers this club was one chapter of. The count is distinct canonical franchises (skill rows complete 1999+, legend grids validated).
+479 more well-traveled players who wore the crest.