The good: Detroit was the only team in the NFL this season with two receivers finishing in the top 10 in receiving yards with Amon-Ra St. Brown (1,401) finishing fifth and Jameson Williams (1,117) tied with Houston's Nico Collins for ninth.

St. Brown earned his third consecutive All-Pro nod and fourth Pro Bowl selection after finishing with 117 receptions and 11 touchdowns to go with those 1,401 receiving yards. He's just the fourth player in league history to catch at least 110 passes in three straight seasons.

Williams notched career highs in receptions (65) and yards (1,117) and tied a career high with seven touchdowns while finishing third in average yards per reception (17.2).

Rookie third-round pick Isaac TeSlaa developed into a reliable playmaker as the season went on, finishing with six touchdowns.

That trio of St. Brown, Williams and TeSlaa has a chance to be one of the better trios in the NFL in 2026 if TeSlaa continues his upward trajectory heading into his second season.

Detroit finished third in the NFL in passing yards per game (253.1), touchdown receptions (36) and completions of 20-plus yards (66) this season and led the league with 2,479 yards after the catch.

The bad: After leading the NFL in fewest drops (7) and drop percentage (1.7) in 2024, the Lions saw their drops increase considerably in 2025 to 26. That's obviously not all on the receiving corps, but Williams was credited with an NFL-leading 12 drops and St. Brown had 10, a career-high for him and tied with Cleveland's Jerry Jeudy for the second most in the NFL this season.

Key stat: Through the first five seasons of a player's career in franchise history, St. Brown ranks first in receptions (547), first in receiving yards (6,252), first in 100-yard games (24) and second in receiving touchdowns (44).

Free agents: Kalif Raymond (unrestricted), Tom Kennedy (restricted)

Raymond has been a glue piece on this roster since general manager Brad Holmes and head coach Dan Campbell arrived in 2021. He recorded 24 receptions for 289 yards and a touchdown on offense and averaged 7.5 yards per punt return with a touchdown on way to breaking Mel Gray's franchise record for most punt return yards in team history. He's a team leader who can play all three receiver spots and is great in the receiver room for the young players.

Kennedy has shuffled between the practice squad and active roster for five seasons as a reliable depth player. He stepped in and caught four passes for 36 yards on Thanksgiving when the Lions lost St. Brown to injury in the first quarter of that contest.

He also stepped in for the injured Raymond for a couple weeks in the return game and gave Detroit a boost there, finishing with a 16.7-yard punt return average and a 27.9-yard kickoff return average. He was so reliable at the end of the season that Detroit opted to keep him active and make rookie wide receiver Dominic Lovett a healthy scratch down the stretch.

Draft: There has only been one draft in the Holmes era where he hasn't taken a receiver and that was 2024. He took St. Brown in the fourth round in 2021, Williams in the first round in 2022, Antoine Green in the seventh round in 2023 and TeSlaa (third) and Lovett (seventh) in 2025.

Detroit has more pressing needs at other spots, but it's obviously a position Holmes likes to keep stocked. It's probably something he wouldn't consider until the later rounds when it's more about the grade fitting the draft position.

One interesting name for me is Mississippi State's Brenen Thompson (5-9, 170). He'll be in the running for the fastest at the NFL Scouting Combine in late February with a 10.18 100-yard dash on his resume in high school to go along with five touchdowns of 50-plus yard this season on 57 receptions for 1,054 yards and six touchdowns.

Quotable: "He's probably grown more than anybody has throughout the year, as far as our young guys. He's grown the most," Campbell said of TeSlaa. "What you love about him is why he's here. Of course, he's got ability, but he's smart, he's instinctive, he's tough, he's a finisher, he's resilient.

"Every week, we've been able to put more and more on him. He's serving a lot of different roles, playing a lot of different positions. But he's just continued to – he's one of those guys that broke through that rookie wall at some point and just kept going. And that's what you want. Those are the guys you're looking for."