Allen Park — Welcome to the next stage of the Detroit Lions' rebuild.
If you were unsure anything would be notably different this offseason — at least compared to the previous two under general manager Brad Holmes' stewardship — you were served official notice a little before 10 p.m. Tuesday night, when the team reached a three-year agreement with running back David Montgomery.
The Montgomery addition isn't some major splash that will consume the national news cycle for anything more than a couple of minutes, but it established two things. First, combined with the three-year agreement reached with cornerback Cameron Sutton a day earlier, Holmes is no longer patching the roster with a bunch of one-year prove-it deals.