Lions Tender Hill, Levy, Hilliard

[lp4ever41]

Lions tendered contracts to restricted free agents OLB DeAndre Levy, DT Sammie Lee Hill and OT Corey Hilliard.
Levy has been tendered at the second-round level, while Hill and Hilliard drew original-round tenders. Levy is coming off a 109 tackle age-24 season, and figures to be a priority for the Lions. He could be an in-house candidate to take over at middle linebacker if Stephen Tulloch walks in free agency.

Kinda surprised Levy got the 2nd-round level tender while Hill got an original-round one. Figured it'd be reversed but w/e

 

[schles192]

A 4th for hill is a steal.

 

[golions1989]

There's only so much you can stock up on your D-Line alone, so it makes some level of sense. I'd be ok with losing them all though if it meant we got to keep Tulloch.

 

[tsmith7559]

losing SLH would be a bummer

 

[mhughes0021]

ya a 4th for hill is a steal but i also agree with golions.....im fine if all of them get picked up by other teams if it means we kept tulloch.

 

[dannydiggler]

Why wouldn't they tender slh higher? Cw will be gone next season leaving just suh and fairley.

 

[schles192]

I believe the tender also places a min on contract amount, so cap space may have been a factor.

 

[lp4ever41]

Danny Diggler[/color]]Why wouldn't they tender slh higher? Cw will be gone next season leaving just suh and fairley.

Yup. Its only about a $700,000 difference.

And why didn't Levy get the original one? Who the hell is paying a 3rd for him?

 

[lions2011]

SLH could draw interest on the open market...dumb move , should have let Corey Williams go and saved the 5+ million and tendered SLH higher.

 

[cheeno]

SLH could draw interest on the open market...dumb move , should have let Corey Williams go and saved the 5+ million and tendered SLH higher.

I couldn't agree more with this statement.