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Top 5 former Lions who won a Super Bowl after leaving Detroit

It’s a well-worn theme whenever Detroit Lions fans give voice to one of the frustrations built up from an unsuccessful stretch of losing now spanning multiple generations.

Something that we just can’t understand is how it seems like as soon as an underperforming guy leaves Detroit, suddenly his career is reignited and he finds all kinds of football success elsewhere. Eric Ebron and Golden Tate were two of those guys last year, Quandre Diggs and Laken Tomlinson are two of them this year.

Are we exaggerating this supposed effect though?