Kerby Joseph holds the FS · Starter spot in Detroit Lions’s safety room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Kerby Joseph played 6 games in 2025 with a 88% snap share.

Kerby Joseph is a 6'0", 210-pound free safety for the Detroit Lions entering his fifth season. Selected 97th overall in the 2022 NFL Draft out of Illinois, Joseph recorded 17 interceptions through his first three seasons, the most by any Lions player in that span since the 1970 merger. In 2025, he posted three interceptions and four pass defenses. Joseph earned First-Team AP All-Pro honors in 2024, when he became the first Lions safety since Jack Christiansen in 1957 to record at least nine interceptions and a pick six in a single season.

Illinois2018 – 2021

Lions2022 — present

CollegeIllinoisDraftRound 3 · No. 97 overall · 2022 · DETHometownOrlando, FL