{"id":314736,"date":"2025-11-29T17:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314736\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T17:15:12","slug":"frank-ragnow-fails-physical-wont-rejoin-detroit-lions-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314736\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Ragnow fails physical, won&#8217;t rejoin Detroit Lions this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DETROIT &#8212; Four-time Pro Bowl center Frank Ragnow has failed his physical and will not play for the Detroit Lions this season, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ragnow was planning to come out of retirement, but after reporting to the facility Friday to meet with the medical team for normal protocols, he failed to meet the requirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detroit&#8217;s medical team revealed that Ragnow had a Grade 3 hamstring strain that would keep him from playing, the team said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;Frank has always been a team-first guy and is a true warrior,&#8221; the team said in a statement. &#8220;He will forever be a Lion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ragnow, 29, announced his retirement in June after seven NFL seasons in which he battled through multiple injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lions still hold Ragnow&#8217;s contractual rights for two seasons &#8212; this year and next &#8212; and coach Dan Campbell was initially &#8220;fired up&#8221; about the possibility of him returning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;He wants to play, he wants to be a part of it, he misses the game, he misses his teammates. And so, we&#8217;re really fired up,&#8221; Campbell said after Thursday&#8217;s 31-24 loss to Green Bay. &#8220;He&#8217;s a good football player, he brings a good football player, a lot of production back to that O-line and the game itself. But he&#8217;s also a great teammate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;He was one of our captains, so he brings a lot to our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT &#8212; Four-time Pro Bowl center Frank Ragnow has failed his physical and will not play for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,104636,138043,514,82],"class_list":["post-314736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit-lions-sports-football-team-team-statscom-334","tag-frank-ragnow-sports-football-player-player-statscom-837912","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314736","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=314736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}