Which NFL team will Jamaal Williams join? Detroit Lions go for David Montgomery, Williams set for move
Natalie Ross
Published Jan 19, 2026
Questions emerge over Jamaal Williams’ best course of action, as Detroit Lions go for RB David Montgomery for a $18 million, 3-year contract.
Detroit Lions, the NFL establishment, on Tuesday, agreed to sign Chicago Bears free specialist running back David Montgomery, different reports guarantee. The Lions have purportedly agreed with Montgomery to sign a three-year bargain worth $18 million and it will become official at 4 pm on Wednesday.
The marking of Montgomery implies that Jamaal Williams, the Lions running back, should track down another group.
Many clubs are purportedly in the raid for the 27-year-old and he will have a ton of choices in the continuous free organization to pick his future group. In the 2022 season with the Lions, Williams drove them with 1066 hurrying yards and scored 17 surging scores.
The Lions fans are additionally enamored with Williams and they celebrated him when he turned into the primary Lions player to top 1000 yards surging since Reggie Bramble in 2013. He likewise broke the establishment’s most noteworthy single-season score record held by Bary Sanders.
On the rear of areas of strength for a, the running back had said before that he would have liked to sign a drawn out agreement with the group. The different sides met and examined another agreement recently during the NFL consolidate.
Presently with the Lions good and gone, reports say that New York Planes are ‘exceptionally intrigued’ and the Cincinnati Bengals are additionally in the race for Williams.
Tyler Dunne has guaranteed that Bison Bills, Carolina Jaguars, and Chicago Bears are likewise keen on marking Williams in this free office. It stays to be as yet seen which group advances an OK arrangement with the running back, yet a move would be impending.
In one more exchanging news from Tuesday, Indianapolis Foals’ Stephon Gilmore moved to the Dallas Cowpokes in a one-year $11.9 million arrangement.