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Detroit Lions

The defense this roster faces, what it allowed by position, every covered pass catcher with the market's number on him, and the evidence under each grade.

Board generated
Aug 28, 12:12 PM EDT
Line captured
2026-09-09
Dated to the day. One capture, so no movement.
Coverage table
2025 season
Prior season. Not a 2026 measurement of anything.

This week: hosting New Orleans Saints. Kickoff and venue are carried by no source on this desk.

Covered players
9
With a posted line
5
Strongest grade
B
Ungraded
0
WR
4
TE
3
RB
2

The defense opposite

The defense opposite

2025 season

New Orleans Saints on defence, over 17 games. Every percentage below is a share of the same denominator, this defence’s 570 dropbacks, and each one prints the count it came from so it can be checked against the number beside it. The rank is against the other thirty-one teams. None of this is 2026: a coordinator change or a personnel change is not in it.

Coverage and personnel rates
RateShare of dropbacks
Man19.8%113 of 570 dropbacksrank 21 of 32
Zone76.7%437 of 570 dropbacksrank 6 of 32
Press24.2%138 of 570 dropbacksrank 15 of 32
Disguised32.5%185 of 570 dropbacksrank 16 of 32
Middle of field closed59.8%341 of 570 dropbacksrank 3 of 32
Middle of field open40.2%229 of 570 dropbacksrank 30 of 32
Nickel personnel73.9%421 of 570 dropbacksrank 12 of 32
Base personnel21.1%120 of 570 dropbacksrank 9 of 32
DB heavy personnel4.4%25 of 570 dropbacksrank 22 of 32
Rotates to single high27.4%156 of 570 dropbacksrank 9 of 32
Rotates to two high4.9%28 of 570 dropbacksrank 28 of 32
Splits the safetiesnot reported
Coverage shells
ShellShare of dropbacks
Cover 02.5%14 of 570 dropbacksrank 25 of 32
Cover 116.5%94 of 570 dropbacksrank 19 of 32
Cover 26.1%35 of 570 dropbacksrank 29 of 32
Cover 2 man0.7%4 of 570 dropbacksrank 23 of 32
Cover 343%245 of 570 dropbacksrank 2 of 32
Cover 418.1%103 of 570 dropbacksrank 8 of 32
Cover 5not reported
Cover 69.5%54 of 570 dropbacksrank 15 of 32

Cover 5 is reported by neither coverage source for any team, and the split-safety rate arrives as an identical zero for all thirty-two with no count behind it. Both are shown as unreported. Neither is a defence that never plays them.

What that defense allowed, by position

prior season

The allowed totals are a completed prior season: the game counts of 17 to 21 describe a regular season plus playoffs. PFF does not label the season in this export. captured 2026-09-08, before any 2026 game, so the completed season behind these totals is 2025. Recorded as an inference, not as something the file says.

Allowed to pass catchers, prior season
PositionRank allowedPointsPer gameTargetsCatchesYardsTDYards per targetCatch rate
WRT10 of 32304.217.9over 17 games2671662066167.74on 267 targets62.2%of 267 targets
TET13 of 32123.17.2over 17 games1258986966.95on 125 targets71.2%of 125 targets
RB14 of 32298.717.6over 17 games705740135.73on 70 targets81.4%of 70 targets
Allowed to the quarterback, prior season
Rank allowedPointsPer gameCompletionsYardsTDInterceptionsYards per attempt
T6 of 32301.417.7over 17 games312of 491 attempts333625106.79on 491 attempts

Rank 32 allowed the most fantasy points to the position and rank 1 allowed the least. A T prefix is a tie. The game counts run past seventeen because they include the playoffs.

Covered players

Grade mix on this roster: B 2C 2D 3F 2. The grade and the score are prior-season evidence; the receiving-yards line and its two prices are this week’s capture. 5 of 9 rows carry a line. A row without one was not quoted, which is not a line of zero.

Detroit Lions hosting New Orleans Saints
PlayerPosGradeScoreRec yds lineOverUnderSourcesWhy the score reads this way
David MontgomeryRBB0.71player not matchedno priceno pricenone
  • favorable man/zone fit from the receiver's man-vs-zone production split
  • favorable usage fit: target share tilts with this defense's coverage mix
Isaac TeSlaaWRB0.3117.5-114-1154
  • favorable man/zone fit from the receiver's man-vs-zone production split
  • favorable usage fit: target share tilts with this defense's coverage mix
Jahmyr GibbsRBC0.2930.5-115-1145
  • favorable man/zone fit from the receiver's man-vs-zone production split
  • favorable usage fit: target share tilts with this defense's coverage mix
Amon-Ra St. BrownWRC-0.1177.5-115-1145
  • favorable man/zone fit from the receiver's man-vs-zone production split
  • unfavorable usage fit: target share tilts with this defense's coverage mix
Jameson WilliamsWRD-0.3058.5-114-1155
  • unfavorable man/zone fit from the receiver's man-vs-zone production split
  • unfavorable usage fit: target share tilts with this defense's coverage mix
Sam LaPortaTED-0.3741.5-115-1145
  • unfavorable TE funnel vs New Orleans Saints
  • favorable man/zone fit from the receiver's man-vs-zone production split
  • favorable usage fit: target share tilts with this defense's coverage mix
Kalif RaymondWRD-0.52player not matchedno priceno pricenone
  • unfavorable man/zone fit from the receiver's man-vs-zone production split
  • favorable usage fit: target share tilts with this defense's coverage mix
Anthony FirkserTEF-0.82player not matchedno priceno pricenone
  • unfavorable TE funnel vs New Orleans Saints
  • favorable man/zone fit from the receiver's man-vs-zone production split
  • favorable usage fit: target share tilts with this defense's coverage mix
Brock WrightTEF-1.57no line quotedno priceno pricenone
  • unfavorable TE funnel vs New Orleans Saints
  • unfavorable man/zone fit from the receiver's man-vs-zone production split
  • favorable usage fit: target share tilts with this defense's coverage mix

The evidence under the grades

Receiver evidence

2025 season

The board asserts a coverage lean. This is what it is asserting from: FantasyPoints’s own receiving splits, yards per route run against man and against zone with the routes behind each, the win rate in each, and the share of the offence the receiver held. Prior season, published under a 2026 board, and a rookie or a player who moved has no history to show.

Man and zone production, separation, and share of the offence
PlayerYards per route, manYards per route, zoneWin rate, manWin rate, zoneTarget shareRoute share
David Montgomeryno source matches this player by name and team, so nothing keyed on a player id is attached
Isaac TeSlaa0.15on 80 routes1.14on 176 routes15%on 80 routes6.3%on 176 routes4.6%over 17 games43.5%over 17 games
Jahmyr Gibbs1.79on 81 routes1.92on 245 routes8.8%on 80 routes2.4%on 245 routesnot reportednot reported
Amon-Ra St. Brown2.72on 139 routes2.67on 366 routes28.5%on 137 routes7.7%on 365 routes28.5%over 17 games84.2%over 17 games
Jameson Williams2.54on 140 routes1.9on 395 routes23%on 139 routes7.4%on 393 routes17%over 17 games88.8%over 17 games
Sam LaPorta1.02on 47 routes2.45on 175 routes12.8%on 47 routes1.1%on 174 routes17.8%over 9 games76.8%over 9 games
Kalif Raymondno source matches this player by name and team, so nothing keyed on a player id is attached
Anthony Firkserno source matches this player by name and team, so nothing keyed on a player id is attached
Brock Wright1.16on 19 routes0.92on 90 routes5.3%on 19 routes0%on 90 routes5.1%over 11 games29.1%over 11 games

Where the fixture comes from. Who hosts is not in the Scheme Score export. It is read from the prop capture, which marks an away team, and cross-checked against the FantasyPoints matchup cards, which title themselves the same way. The two agree on 16 of 16 games. Neither source carries a venue, so none is shown.

Where the price comes from. From one dated prop capture, the same one the Scheme Score export now carries on its own priced rows, so the feed and this page state one answer rather than two. A line here is the consensus across independent sources in that capture, joined to the board by player name and team, and the two prices are the median quote at that line. A row with no line was quoted by nobody in the capture under the name and team the board uses; that is unpriced, not a line of zero. The Sources column says how many sources stood behind a number; it never says which ones, and no operator is named anywhere on this site. The capture is dated 2026-09-09 and is recorded to the day, not to a clock time, so no reader may date it more finely. One capture, so there is no line movement and no closing line.

Availability is not stated here. The 2026 week 1 practice report on this desk carries eleven rows across two of the thirty-two teams, and not one of them states a report status. Official inactives are published in no source here. So these pages say nothing about who plays, and a player appearing on them is not evidence that he will.

Scheme Score is a matchup feature built for player-prop gambling research. It is one input to a betting decision, not a standalone player projection, hit probability, expected value estimate, or stake size. Most rows on this board now carry a grade. The man and zone coverage signal is live: both the man/zone fit and the usage fit legs contribute to a grade, reflecting whether a receiver's style and usage lean toward the coverage this defense plays most. The slot coverage funnel is a direct measurement from PFF's slot coverage report, not an estimate. Some inputs are still missing. Direct TE and RB receiving funnels are not available: tight ends run through the linebacker coverage proxy, and running backs get no receiving funnel signal at all. Defender coverage grades still do not contribute to any grade, because that leg needs each defense's 2026 returning-share data, which does not exist here. The defensive coordinator table is an unfilled stub, so no coordinator discount is applied to any row. A small number of rows stay ungraded because the player name on that row is ambiguous and the grader skips rather than guesses. This board is two tiers. 134 of 290 rows are priced: they carry a posted receiving-yards line from one dated prop capture, joined to the board by player name and team, plus the median over and under price quoted at that line and a count of how many independent sources stood behind it. The other 156 rows carry no line, which means no source in that capture quoted them under the name and team this board uses; that is unpriced, not a line of zero, and it is not a claim that the player will not play. Which operator quoted a number is withheld everywhere in this feed; how many stood behind it is published instead. The capture is recorded to the day and not to a clock time, so no reader may date it more finely, and it is a single capture, so there is no line movement and no closing line here. The line does not enter Scheme Score: the grade is computed from prior-season scheme and usage evidence alone, so a grade is never a projection of the line beside it.