Per Tom Kowalski at MLive.com, former Saints and Browns center LeCharles Bentley was on hand to visit with Detroit Lions officials today.

The visit went well, but the Lions aren’t interested in signing Bentley. Which makes us curious as to the result of a visit that doesn’t go well. (Maybe they make you watch game film from the second half of last season.)

And so Bentley, a former Pro Bowler at both guard and center who ripped the Saints on his way out of town and then allegedly spurned a verbal agreement with the Eagles to sign with Cleveland in 2005, continues to find himself unemployed.

That the Lions, who have a good center in Dominic Raiola but could use an upgrade at guard and depth, have deemed Bentley unworthy of a contract illustrates just how far his career has fallen since his first day in Browns pads, when a torn patellar tendon was the first domino of terrible luck which eventually erased two seasons.