Top teams to watch ahead of the 2025 NFL trade deadline
USA TODAY Sports’ Joe Rivera and Chris Bumbaca break down which teams to keep an eye out for ahead of the November 4th NFL trade deadline.
The Detroit Lions are debuting their all-black uniforms tonight for the first time this season against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football at Ford Field in Detroit.
The all-black jerseys and pants were revealed in the spring of 2024, along with updated home and road jerseys.
Like all NFL teams, the Lions’ uniform for each game was decided before the season.
The Lions wore black three times last season, going 1-0 on Monday Night Football and 2-0 in night games.
The Lions went 2-1 in all-black in 2024. they defeated the Seattle Seahawks in Week 4 on Monday Night Football, and sunk the Minnesota Vikings in Week 18 to clinch the franchise’s first-ever No. 1 seed.
The Lions lost in black in Week 15 to the Buffalo Bills to snap a record 11-game win streak.
The win against the Vikings, a 31-9 beatdown on Sunday Night Football, finished off the greatest regular season in franchise history at 15-2. We won’t mention what happened two weeks later.
The Lions, by rule, cannot wear all-black in the NFL playoffs.
The Lions introduced a black alternate uniform in 2005 and last wore it in 2007.
Before the 2024 update, the Lions last updated their uniforms in 2017, when they removed black from the color scheme and introduced a steel gray “Color Rush” alternate.
