{"id":223236,"date":"2025-10-18T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223236\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:39:08","slug":"lions-joseph-among-players-missing-in-secondary-ahead-of-clash-vs-bucs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223236\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions&#8217; Joseph among players missing in secondary ahead of clash vs. Bucs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/detroit-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a> defensive backs Kerby Joseph, Terrion Arnold and Avonte Maddox have been ruled out against <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lions-bucs-spread-odds-34ad36060892c45a751aeb8d6fe99610\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monday night<\/a> due to injuries, a setback for a secondary without suspended safety Brian Branch.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph (knee) and Maddox (hamstring) were unable to practice this week while Arnold was cleared on a limited basis on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lions-chiefs-brian-branch-suspension-8c3121758abd604015dc220a9a884d17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspended Branch for one game<\/a> after he threw a punch and started a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lions-chiefs-fight-brian-branch-e1f8f03a80052ad16856673846b2791c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">postgame melee<\/a> following last week&#8217;s loss at Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers may get a boost with what has been a short-handed group of receivers by the potential return of six-time Pro Bowl receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tampa-bay-buccaneers-mike-evans-919d12693b619f51ec0b2aff21f6fe04\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Evans<\/a> and rookie Emeka Egbuka, who are listed as questionable with hamstring injuries. Evans has missed three games and Egbuka left <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/49ers-buccaneers-score-4ff79691b71f6d6e563c043b127521d7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s win against San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay ruled out receiver Chris Godwin (leg), running back Bucky Irving (foot, shoulder) and offensive guard Luke Haggard (shoulder).<\/p>\n<p>Detroit offensive tackle Taylor Decker (shoulder) and defensive tackle Alim McNeill (knee) were listed as questionable.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Detroit Lions defensive backs Kerby Joseph, Terrion Arnold and Avonte Maddox have been ruled out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-223236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}