Here\u2019s an at-a-glance look at Wednesday\u2019s roster moves:<\/p>\n
Mahogany was injured in Week 9 when his leg swung into a defender. While contact appeared near the ankle, the Lions listed him with a knee injury, and on Monday, coach Dan Campbell revealed that he has actually suffered a broken bone.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what the injury is\u2014it\u2019s a broken bone\u2014relative to injuries, that\u2019s a good thing,\u201d Campbell explained. \u201cI think, will heal up; it\u2019ll be stronger than it was before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campbell also noted that Mahogany would have a chance to return this season, but could be out \u201ca long time.\u201d At a minimum, Mahogany will need to miss the next four games, meaning that he will be out at least through Week 14.<\/p>\n
In the interim, Campbell said the Lions will explore all options for how to replace Mahogany at left guard, noting that veteran Kayode Awosika will get the first shot at things, followed by Trystan Colon, but everything was being considered.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ll start right now as usual. (Awosika) Yode goes in, and then we may start putting (Trystan) Colon in some spots here and move these guys around today and tomorrow,\u201d Campbell explained. \u201cSo, we\u2019ll start as we kind of ended that game the other day, and then maybe we\u2019ll start moving some pieces around. So, that\u2019s kind of where I\u2019m at now. Doesn\u2019t mean that I will do it, but I mean I\u2019d like to do it today, at least a play or two, and see what that looks like, see where we\u2019re at. Maybe some walkthrough reps.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Awosika\u2019s experience is mainly at guard and tackle, Colon\u2019s has started NFL games at guard and center. That means, the Lions could experiment with a variety of combinations, including Awosika (LG) and Graham Glasgow (C), Colon (LG) and Glasgow (C), and even Awosika (LG) and Colon (C). It\u2019s worth noting that in Week 9, the Lions plugged Awosika in at left guard and kept the rest of the line the same, which is the most likely outcome here.<\/p>\n
Summers makes his second trip onto the Lions\u2019 53-man roster this season, with an injury to Zach Cunningham being the catalyst for the opportunity in both situations. With Cunningham landing on injured reserve last week and Malcolm Rodriguez not expected to return to the active roster until Week 11, Summers was elevated from the practice squad in Week 9 and signed to the active roster for this week. He\u2019ll likely operate as LB6 on defense and fill a contributing role on special teams for the next two weeks, but his spot may only be viewed as a placeholder until Rodriguez is activated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s an at-a-glance look at Wednesday\u2019s roster moves: Mahogany was injured in Week 9 when his leg swung…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[16516,4992,14290,349,99],"class_list":["post-274996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-injury-report","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroit-lions-transactions","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}