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Martin Mayhew has no plans for moves at trade deadline

BAGSHOT, England -- The NFL's trading deadline is less than a week away, but don’t expect the Detroit Lions to be a team looking to make a move.

General manager Martin Mayhew said Thursday during a meeting with reporters that he has no plans to trade any players before the deadline this season, and that includes star defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, who is in the final year of his contract.

“I don’t have any plans to trade anybody,” Mayhew said. "Leave it at that."

Mayhew said he has taken calls from teams around the NFL -- as most general managers do. Last season around this time, there was speculation the team might try to move running back Mikel Leshoure, a second-round pick who fell out of the rotation with the emergence of Joique Bell.

But the team held on to Leshoure, who barely played last season before being cut prior to this season.

And this is a departure from early in Mayhew’s tenure, when the Lions were doing anything they could to acquire talent during and after an 0-16 season that represented the bottoming out of a franchise.

“Going back to 2008, 2009, we were continually trying to acquire just fundamentally sound, solid NFL players,” Mayhew said. “I think we’ve done a pretty good job of that over the last few years so we have fewer holes on the roster, I think, than we had back then.

“So we’re probably not as actively involved in that process.”

One name besides Suh that could have been a logical trade candidate is receiver Ryan Broyles. Despite injuries across the entire offense, Broyles has been unable to find significant playing time after making the Detroit roster following an impressive training camp.

He has both tweeted and spoken about his frustration with not having a role in the offense and while Mayhew said Thursday that Broyles has never voiced any of this to him, he believes he will contribute at some point.

“I like Ryan Broyles,” Mayhew said. “He’s an outstanding football player. The fact that he’s not playing as much is just indicative of our skill level at that position, you know. I think a lot of teams he would play quite a bit for.

“I think we have good quality receivers, good offense and Ryan will get an opportunity. It’ll happen. That’s why he’s on the team.”