{"id":79141,"date":"2025-07-20T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T22:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79141\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T22:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T22:57:12","slug":"why-lions-rb-david-montgomery-is-the-hungriest-hes-ever-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79141\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lions RB David Montgomery is the hungriest he\u2019s ever been"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Montgomery is entering his seventh season in the NFL. The Detroit Lions<\/a> running back has been an essential part of the team\u2019s running back duo alongside Jahmyr Gibbs. In just two seasons, he\u2019s produced 1,790 rushing yards and 25 touchdowns. Before that, he had several successful seasons with the Chicago Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite that, Montgomery still feels overlooked and underappreciated. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is probably the hungriest that I have been, because I feel like a lot of people forget that I\u2019m here in the offense, too,\u201d Montgomery said on Sunday. \u201cI\u2019m not here to prove anybody wrong. I\u2019m here to prove myself right and be the best teammate that I can be, but I definitely got a big chip on my shoulder.\u201d <\/p>\n

Without a doubt, some of that lack of attention has come due to the success of Gibbs. The Lions\u2019 2023 first-round pick is coming off a season in which he finished fifth in rushing yards (1,412) and t-first in rushing touchdowns (16). But with Gibbs potentially taking more snaps outside as a receiver, it presents the opportunity to get both players on the field at the same time. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s super exciting,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cBeing able to have me and him on the field at the same time, it\u2019ll be tough for defenses to prepare for us.\u201d <\/p>\n

Beyond that, though, Montgomery believes he still has a lot to prove. After ending the regular season with an injury and an unproductive game in the playoffs (seven rushes, 28 yards), Montgomery is out there to prove that he\u2019s still a big factor. <\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s also a pretty big team goal pushing him. After watching this team nearly reach the Super Bowl<\/a> in 2023 and squander the NFC\u2019s top seed last year, the craving for a championship remains at the forefront of his mind. <\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody is out there hungry,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cWe\u2019re tired of just being close. Everybody\u2019s tired of being close. It\u2019s cool to be close at first, but you don\u2019t want to get comfortable with being close all the time. That\u2019s not what you want to be known for, especially when you know you\u2019ve got the guys that you\u2019ve got on the team. You want to finish it. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo this is the year for us: the year of the reckoning and the year that we choose that we need to finish.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Montgomery is entering his seventh season in the NFL. The Detroit Lions running back has been an…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[33399,7652,1449,27705,27706,38722,204,38189,54559,1622,9321,26979,1232,1539,3009,6651,196,62,448,67,132,68,3247],"class_list":{"0":"post-79141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-been","9":"tag-david","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-lions-news","12":"tag-detroit-lions-quotes","13":"tag-ever","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-he","16":"tag-hungriest","17":"tag-is","18":"tag-lions","19":"tag-montgomery","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-of","22":"tag-pride","23":"tag-rb","24":"tag-s","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-the","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-why"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114888038687797023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79141","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=79141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}