The Detroit Lions have donned their Motor City Muscle alternate jerseys in recent seasons, including last year against the Minnesota Vikings on Christmas Day.
Detroit gets to update its wardrobe in 2026. The Lions are among the teams getting a new alternate this season. Last year, the NFL unveiled its Nike Rivalries collection for clubs from the AFC East and NFC West.
Detroit will join that group in 2026. Lions president and CEO Rod Wood confirmed with the Detroit Free Press that the Lions would be getting the new Rivalries uniform back in March before the league’s annual spring meeting.
The Lions can only wear the rivalry uniform once per season and it must be at home against a division rival. Wood had told the Free Press in March that he and the Lions would decide which opponent—the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers or Minnesota Vikings—to wear their new Nike Rivalry uniforms against after the full NFL schedule release.
The Lions will learn their full schedule on Thursday night beginning at 8 p.m. ET during the NFL schedule release.
Wood caught up with Brad Galli to share some more insight on what fans can expect.
The Lions will be wearing a new alternate uniform in 2026.
Rod Wood said their new Nike Rivalries Collection uniform is “consistent with our color and look, but with a little modern twist.”https://t.co/az4k94JoM8
— Brad Galli (@BradGalli) May 12, 2026
“Yeah, we’re the second year of the Rivalry uniforms, so if you watched last year, two divisions wore them. You get to wear them once at a home game against one of your division opponents. And so, once the schedule comes out in May and we know who we’re playing at what games and primetime versus Sunday afternoon, we’ll sit down and figure out the best time to unveil them.
“I’m pretty excited about them. They’re kind of consistent with our colors and our look, but I think with a little modern twist that the fans are going to like. That was a process that we went through over several years with Nike and telling them what we would be interested in. They’d come back with a version, we’d push back and it goes back and forth. We finally settled on one that I think everyone’s going to like,” Wood said.
Last season, the NFL revealed its first batch of Nike Rivalries unis on Aug. 28, 2025.
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