{"id":212510,"date":"2025-01-24T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T20:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=212510"},"modified":"2025-01-23T23:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T04:22:30","slug":"discussions-lions-carlton-davis-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/01\/24\/discussions-lions-carlton-davis-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Discussions&#8221; Lions Impending Free Agent Might Not Return &#8211; Ravens, Chiefs Logical Fits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL Offseason is around the corner but there haven&#8217;t been any discussions about extending cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/04\/11\/carlton-davis-2018-nfl-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Carlton Davis<\/a> as he&#8217;s a free agent this year.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/01\/lions-to-explore-kerby-joseph-extension-have-not-discussed-deal-with-carlton-davis\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> According to a report<\/a>, general manager Brad Holmes did not give an intriguing response about Davis&#8217; future which may spell the end of his tenure with the team. Originally selected in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft, the Lions made a surprising trade midseason in hopes of bolstering their secondary unit after a trade for Davis. However, those were just dreams for now since the Lions were missing the majority of their secondary which could be a reason why the team lost to the Commanders in the divisional round matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Lions will focus on extending <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/01\/03\/detroit-lions-most-glaring-pro-bowl-selection-snub-of-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Kerby Joseph<\/a>, there might be much room to give Davis a new contract. Davis suffered a season-ending injury that kept him out of action for the rest of the season&#8217;s campaign so that might be a reason for not retaining him. The former Super Bowl champion should have some type of market to potentially revive his career since he still has a lengthy resume. Davis might expect some type of raise on his next contract but that may not be possible considering he hasn&#8217;t been able to stay healthy after missing at least four games the last few seasons.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;No Discussions&#8221; Lions Impending Free Agent Carlton Davis Might Not Return &#8211; Ravens, Chiefs Logical Fits<\/h2>\n<h3>Salvaging the Ravens<\/h3>\n<p>The Baltimore Ravens can&#8217;t afford another season in the Fall to lose in a big-time game like they did against the Bills. While the Ravens&#8217; offense was stellar despite their wide receiver issue, the defense has yet to be on the same page. However, they found a way to keep the team together like glue but it wasn&#8217;t enough to bring the trophy home. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/02\/21\/marlon-humphrey-2017-nfl-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Marlon Humphrey<\/a> is one of the best secondary pieces they have on their entire roster but other names like Brandon Stephens and Kyle Hamilton haven&#8217;t lived up to expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/01\/05\/nate-wiggins-2024-nfl-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Nate Wiggins<\/a> is still a developmental cornerback so he needs some veteran assistance coming into next season. Ar&#8217;Darius Washington has done a phenomenal job of helping the secondary since his elevation but it&#8217;s never a bad thing to bring in some extra cornerback help. As the secondary gets younger, the Ravens should sign a couple of veterans this free agency to get this team <a href=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/2025\/01\/21\/baltimore-ravens-news-lamar-jackson-postseason-failure-divisional-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to finally win a championship ring.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Embracing the Cheap Chiefs<\/h3>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs will have to scrap for some extra dollars for off-season moves since the salary cap is working against their favor. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2022\/04\/14\/2022-nfl-draft-trent-mcduffie-scouting-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Trent McDuffie<\/a> is one of the best cornerbacks in the league but he&#8217;s going to need assistance if the Chiefs want to see huge progression from him. The Chiefs had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/42879215\/veteran-cb-steven-nelson-unretires-sign-chiefs\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">embrace signing Steven Nelson<\/a> for depth but Justin Reid might leave, they should add another superstar to bolster this unit. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/04\/26\/chamarri-conner-2023-nfl-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chamarri Conner<\/a> got hurt this past season so they can&#8217;t afford that to happen again.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they could sign Carlton Davis and form a raging fire duo with McDuffie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, there has yet to be discussions about free agent Carlton Davis&#8217; contract which may spell the end in Detroit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4795,"featured_media":212516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10,24,16],"tags":[8210,3813,7811,32808,1274,7638,9107],"class_list":["post-212510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-ravens","category-lions","category-chiefs","tag-brandon-stephens","tag-carlton-davis","tag-chiefs-featured","tag-kerby-joseph","tag-marlon-humphrey","tag-ravens-featured","tag-trent-mcduffie"],"modified_by":"Anthony Palacios","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212522,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212510\/revisions\/212522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}