Cliff Avril will consider holding out if the Lions decide to place their franchise tag on him. Detroit could do so instead of negotiating a long-term deal with the defensive end. "There's a lot of different possibilities, and that's one of the possibilities -- not showing up," Avril said. "But we don't know. That's not the plan, obviously. But there's a lot of different possibilities, and that's definitely one of them." The Lions can use the franchise tag on Avril to keep him off the market with a one-year deal for the average of the five highest-paid defensive ends as soon as Monday or as late as March 5. "I don't want to be franchised," Avril said. "That's basically what I got last year. The (restricted free-agent) tender was basically the same thing. I just want security and longevity."