5 Unheralded Stars Most Important to the Detroit Lions’ Success

June 13, 2012   ·   Scott Bischoff   ·   Jump to comments

The 2012 Detroit Lions are going to need players that can act as the glue that will hold their team together.
Every NFL team has very important role players that perform well to help their team win games. Generally, these players are not superstars; they are players that perform very well without getting a lot of publicity.
Looking at the teams that have had success recently, you can see that these kinds of players are extremely important. Not every player on the Giants' or Packers' roster is a superstar. They all make up the team, and the team does the winning and losing. 
The Lions enter the 2012 season as a team that should contend for a playoff spot. They are going to need their star players to play well, and more importantly, they are going to need solid play out of their role players.
Some of their role players are going to be critical to their success. The following are the role players that stand out more than oth...

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