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Detroit Lions · Defense/Special teams
A defense's own recent form is a fifth as informative as the market's view of its opponent: implied opponent total correlates -0.29 with next week’s points against +0.11 for trailing production. Defensive touchdowns reproduce at 0.02, so nothing here tries to predict one.
Week 4 projection
Fantasy points
6.5
vs CAR
Opponent implied total
23.5
the market’s view
Career by season
| Season | Games | Sacks/gm | Takeaways/gm | Pts allowed | Def TD | Pts/gm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 3 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 31.7 | 0 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 24.3 | 1 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 17 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 20.1 | 2 | 7.1 |
| 2023 | 17 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 23.2 | 1 | 5.9 |
| 2022 | 17 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 25.1 | 2 | 5.3 |
| 2021 | 17 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 27.5 | 0 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 16 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 32.4 | 1 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 26.4 | 3 | 4.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 22.5 | 2 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 23.5 | 7 | 9.2 |