Alex Anzalone is back for a second season with the Detroit Lions. The linebacker agreed to terms on a new one-year contract worth up to $4 million to return to the Lions, where he served as the on-field defensive play-caller with the green dot in 2021. Anzalone made it clear in his press conference on Monday that there wasn’t really any other place he wanted to be.
“I talked to (head coach) Dan (Campbell) at the end of the season and told him I wanted to come back,” Anzalone told reporters via Zoom. “If the feeling was mutual that would be a good fit for me.”
Anzalone continued,