Overview
- The Lions, which confirmed Tuesday through team president Rod Wood, required retired center Frank Ragnow to return part of his signing bonus.
- Wood said the repayment follows a team precedent that also hit Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson when they left the game.
- The team did not disclose the sum, but contract math on a $6 million bonus with two years remaining points to roughly $3 million.
- Media outlets and former teammate Alex Anzalone criticized the decision as penny‑pinching toward a decorated franchise cornerstone.
- NFL rules allow teams to recoup prorated bonus money after retirements, yet reporting describes Detroit as an outlier for consistently enforcing it.