Lions GM Brad Holmes drops eye-opening Jahmyr Gibbs workload prediction

When the 2024 NFL season begins, we know three things for sure about the Detroit Lions:

1. The Lions will be one of the trendiest Super Bowl picks among both fans and analysts of the game
2. Jared Goff, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and Penei Sewell will enter the year as three of the highest paid players ever at their respective positions
3. Pending good health all season long, you can expect that Jahmyr Gibbs will overtake David Montgomery as the “lead back” in the Lions’ backfield

And hey, if you don’t want to believe me, you can take the word of Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes, who had this to say about his team’s backfield during an appearance on The Rich Eisen Show on Monday afternoon.

“Yeah I definitely would expect him [Gibbs] to see more of a load, but you know David Montgomery will still be here too and we love that one two punch of him and David. Just speaking him specifically, him being a rookie last year, even when he had some pops in that KC game, in that opener, I was watching, and like you know, he’s still trying to get the feel of the game. He was playing very fast and he actually kind of needed to slow down a little bit and he openly admitted that you know like, ‘I just had to slow it down a little bit, I was kind of going too fast,’ which he was.

“But once he got that sweet spot and it was about right there, kind of saw a little bit in the Ravens game which unfortunately, we didn’t show up very well for that game, but that’s when you started seeing some glimpses of ‘I think It’s coming. I think it’s coming.'”