Just so happens I was thinking about the All-Time Lions OL, but in the Superbowl era only and that complicates thigs immensely. While Sewell, Brown and Ragnow are slam dunks what are you going to do with OG because both of those 2 were pre-Super Bowl. After Gordy in the early 60's the next pro bowl OG for the Lions was TJ Lang and Jonah Jackson and I would hate to include either of those two.
I had to go with a couple players more known as Centers but played well as OGs in Detroit.
First is the Lions 1st round pick in 1996, Jeff Hartings. He was the starting RG for the next 5 years before Millan made his biggest blunder by letting him leave for the Steelers as a FA, imagine how big of a blunder that has to be to be Millen's worst move. In Pittsburg Hartings was the starting center for 6 years, made 2 pro bowls and even an All-Pro season in 2005 when he anchored the Super Bowl champion Steelers OL.
The other guy was more difficult but I went with Kevin Glover. I know he was a Center but his career started out playing OG, started 9 games at RG followed by all 16 games in 1988 before moving to Center. Now maybe it's a stretch to include him as an OG but this is a junk yard dog and I'm sure would fit in well between the Big Fella (Lomas Brown) and Frank..
If you just have to have a "true" OG maybe I can go with Warford and if you want a true LG, I guess it's Rob Sims, but I'm not happy about it. Man, these Lions OG in the Super Bowl era sucked.
That all time offensive line selection is spot on! And makes losing Frank even more painful! Next man up and all of that…. Sorry, you don’t replace Frank. You just hope that guy can be good! Cause Frank was the lions GOAT at center! 😤
Just so happens I was thinking about the All-Time Lions OL, but in the Superbowl era only and that complicates thigs immensely. While Sewell, Brown and Ragnow are slam dunks what are you going to do with OG because both of those 2 were pre-Super Bowl. After Gordy in the early 60's the next pro bowl OG for the Lions was TJ Lang and Jonah Jackson and I would hate to include either of those two.
I had to go with a couple players more known as Centers but played well as OGs in Detroit.
First is the Lions 1st round pick in 1996, Jeff Hartings. He was the starting RG for the next 5 years before Millan made his biggest blunder by letting him leave for the Steelers as a FA, imagine how big of a blunder that has to be to be Millen's worst move. In Pittsburg Hartings was the starting center for 6 years, made 2 pro bowls and even an All-Pro season in 2005 when he anchored the Super Bowl champion Steelers OL.
The other guy was more difficult but I went with Kevin Glover. I know he was a Center but his career started out playing OG, started 9 games at RG followed by all 16 games in 1988 before moving to Center. Now maybe it's a stretch to include him as an OG but this is a junk yard dog and I'm sure would fit in well between the Big Fella (Lomas Brown) and Frank..
If you just have to have a "true" OG maybe I can go with Warford and if you want a true LG, I guess it's Rob Sims, but I'm not happy about it. Man, these Lions OG in the Super Bowl era sucked.
That all time offensive line selection is spot on! And makes losing Frank even more painful! Next man up and all of that…. Sorry, you don’t replace Frank. You just hope that guy can be good! Cause Frank was the lions GOAT at center! 😤