The Detroit Lions flexed their muscles Monday night, defeating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by a final score of 24-9. Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs was phenomenal in Week 7, racking up 218 scrimmage yards and two touchdowns.

Dan Campbell's tenure as head coach of the Lions got off to an inauspicious start in 2021 as he failed to win any of his first 11 contests. A year later his side was 1-6 and there was serious chatter about his job security. Since then he's won 40 of his last 51 regular-season games, made the playoffs twice and advanced to an NFC championship game.

The defensive lineman was supposed to play limited snaps in his return but ended up with nearly double the expected workload.

Jahmyr Gibbs was productive for the Lions in the first six weeks of the 2025 season, but none of those games featured the kind of dominant performance that has lifted Gibbs to the top of the list of running backs in the league.

As a result of a victory against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Detroit Lions earned a significant amount of praise in the latest round of NFL rankings.

Head coach Dan Campbell not surprised that Lions DC Kelvin Sheppard is doing a great job, "This is what I expected"

The Lions got a big win over the Buccaneers on MNF in Week 7 and Detroit should improve when multiple injured defensive starters return.