Retaining Redding is high priority
Detroit Lions02/21/2007 8:30 AM The Detroit Free Press reports the Lions continue to recruit DL Cory Redding, hoping to avoid the delicate move of designating him their franchise player. The deadline for designating franchise players is 4 p.m. Thursday. Redding is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent March 2. "We've been working very hard to try to get him to sign," HC Rod Marinelli said Tuesday. "I still just want to keep working at that. He's a special, special player." Read more