{"id":394529,"date":"2022-11-09T05:44:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T10:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394529"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:22:21","slug":"trinity-benson-is-returning-to-detroit-lions-roster","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/trinity-benson-is-returning-to-detroit-lions-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity Benson is returning to Detroit Lions roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/detroit-lions\/\">Detroit Lions<\/a> are signing <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/trinity-benson\/\">Trinity Benson<\/a> off the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/denver-broncos\/\">Denver Broncos<\/a> practice squad just over a year after the Lions traded for Benson at the start of the 2021 season, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davebirkett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@davebirkett<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Lions<\/a> are bringing back WR Trinity Benson.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetroitOnLion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DetroitOnLion<\/a> has more on why: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TDQ1A4bycB\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/TDQ1A4bycB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pride of Detroit (@PrideOfDetroit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrideOfDetroit\/status\/1590394076368703491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"E2c2s0\">The Lions&#8217; general manager Brad Holmes has drawn criticism for that trade, despite the low compensation\u2014 Detroit sent a fifth and seventh-round pick for Benson and the Broncos\u2019 2023 sixth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p id=\"AqVlBk\">25-year-old Benson, however, never made much of an impact with the Lions last season. The wide receiver was only active for eight games, and over that span, he caught just 10 passes for 103 yards.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2Er8v3\">Since then, the Lions added receivers <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/dj-chark\/\">DJ Chark<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/josh-reynolds\/\">Josh Reynolds<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/jameson-williams\/\">Jameson Williams<\/a> to their roster, and Benson failed to make the team\u2019s 53-man roster this season.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Benson signed back to the Broncos practice squad, where he stayed until Detroit poached him this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions are signing Trinity Benson off the Denver Broncos practice squad just over a year after the Lions traded for Benson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394530,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16777,16776],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Wide receiver Benson signed back to the Broncos practice squad in October","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394529"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394529"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}