{"id":482243,"date":"2025-12-31T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482243\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:17:10","slug":"dont-expect-former-lions-center-frank-ragnow-to-unretire-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482243\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t expect former Lions center Frank Ragnow to unretire in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Talking with 97.1 The Ticket on Tuesday afternoon, Goff suggested Ragnow isn\u2019t looking to try and unretire a second time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s in the cards at all,\u201d Goff said. \u201cOf course I\u2019ll talk to Frank, I just don\u2019t think his interest level (in returning) is there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ragnow, who had four Pro Bowl seasons in his nine years with Detroit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideofdetroit.com\/2025\/6\/2\/24441690\/detroit-lions-all-pro-center-frank-ragnow-retiring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retired somewhat suddenly in June<\/a>, stating a desire to be with family and his battles with injuries as primary reasons for ending his football career at age 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But after months of sitting on the sideline, Ragnow was prepared to unretire in November and reported to the Lions\u2019 facility to rejoin the roster. Unfortunately, during his standard physical, medical tests revealed a grade three hamstring tear that ended his season before it even started. He was quickly placed back on the retired\/reserve list and never even made a media appearance during his brief return. In fact, Ragnow has not had a single media session since announcing his retirement in June over social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So what will the Lions do at center moving forward? On Monday, Lions coach Dan Campbell noted that 2025 second-round pick Tate Ratledge, who has started every game this season at right guard, is still in play to move to center after he took some reps there during OTAs and the beginning of training camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe felt like he could be a center and that\u2019s still not off the table,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cWe watched him at guard, he played right guard in college. He\u2019s a good athlete, he\u2019s a big man, he can move. So, we\u2019ll find out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This year\u2019s center, veteran Graham Glasgow, remains under contract for 2026, but Detroit will have to decide if his play warrants the significant raise in his contract ($8.44 million cap hit next year). The Lions have also gotten a recent look at practice squad center Kingsley Eguakun\u2014who has started for Glasgow the last two weeks. They also have Trystan Colon and Michael Niese, who are both capable of playing the position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talking with 97.1 The Ticket on Tuesday afternoon, Goff suggested Ragnow isn\u2019t looking to try and unretire a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":482244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[27705,27706,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-482243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-detroit-lions-news","9":"tag-detroit-lions-quotes","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115813905573308079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}