Lions' Jahmyr Gibbs, David Montgomery crucial to Super Bowl hopes, NFL legend says

The Detroit Lions person been connected the cusp of a Super Bowl quality successful the past 2 seasons aft making the league title successful 2023 and winning 15 games successful 2024, but person yet to beryllium capable to transverse the enactment and into the biggest sporting lawsuit of the year.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Barry Sanders expressed his content that it volition instrumentality the moving backmost tandem of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery to get them there.

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Nov 17, 2024; Detroit, MI, USA; Detroit Lions moving backmost Jahmyr Gibbs, #26, warms up with moving backmost David Montgomery, #5, earlier the crippled betwixt the Detroit Lions and Jacksonville Jaguars astatine Ford Field successful Detroit connected Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Junfu Han/USA TODAY Network via Imagn Images)

"They’re the champion duo successful the NFL and there’s nary crushed that’s going to alteration immoderate clip soon," Sanders told USA Today past week. "If a Super Bowl is successful our future, successful our adjacent future, you would deliberation those 2 guys would beryllium a large portion of it."

Gibbs was the apical rusher for the top-rated discourtesy successful the league. He led the NFL with 16 rushing touchdowns. He had 1,412 rushing yards. He earned a Pro Bowl motion for the 2nd consecutive time.

Montgomery, the veteran, has shown what helium is susceptible of erstwhile helium is afloat healthy. He had 775 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns past year.

Former Detroit Lions subordinate Barry Sanders connected the sidelines successful warmups earlier the crippled against the Minnesota Vikings astatine Ford Field successful Detroit connected Jan. 5, 2025. (David Reginek-Imagn Images)

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"David Montgomery, he’s been a large moving backmost successful the NFL for galore years, and helium conscionable added to that coming implicit from the Bears and putting him with this Lions violative line," Sanders added. "And then, you spot what Jahmyr Gibbs was capable to bash past season, truly from the time, the past 2 years that he’s been here, but I felt similar past twelvemonth was much of a breakout play for him."

The Lions lone got amended connected the violative enactment with the enactment of Tate Ratledge successful the draft. He volition beryllium with Taylor Decker, Christian Mahogany, Frank Ragnow and Penei Sewell.

It is wide the cognition of the Lions has changed since the accomplishment of Dan Campbell.

Running backs for the Detroit Lions, David Montgomery, #5, and Jahmyr Gibbs, #26, are introduced earlier the crippled against the Chicago Bears astatine Ford Field successful Detroit connected Nov. 28, 2024. (David Reginek-Imagn Images)

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The expectations volition lone get higher arsenic the years determination on. Detroit has showcased what they tin bash successful the regular season, but putting it unneurotic for a Super Bowl quality volition beryllium key.

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