{"id":347335,"date":"2025-12-14T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347335\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:40:08","slug":"lions-place-brian-branch-on-ir-activate-shane-zylstra-add-2-from-ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347335\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions place Brian Branch on IR, activate Shane Zylstra, add 2 from PS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As expected, the Detroit Lions have placed Brian Branch on injured reserve after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideofdetroit.com\/detroit-lions-news\/151586\/brian-branch-injury-update-detroit-lions-safety-in-crutches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">safety suffered a torn Achilles<\/a> in last week\u2019s game against the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cCould be (a possibility),\u201d Campbell said. \u201cWe\u2019re at the back-end of the season now, so anything\u2014even if it\u2019s not technically long-term becomes long-term, because we don\u2019t have many games left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Campbell expressed confidence in their safety depth, despite not having Branch for the rest of the season and Joseph for at least this upcoming game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m really not (worried). I mean, I hate losing either one of those players; they\u2019re great players, they\u2019re great teammates. But as far as worried, I\u2019m really not worried,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cI really do trust the guys that are going back there for us, I do, man. What you lose in a couple areas, you may gain in other areas, having some of these guys back there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In positive news, the Lions have activated tight end Shane Zylstra from injured reserve, giving them some much-needed help at the tight end position with Sam LaPorta out for the year and Brock Wright currently on injured reserve. Zylstar offers Detroit another receiving tight end option with plenty of experience in this offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Additionally, the Lions have elevated tight end Giovanni Ricci from the practice squad. Both he and Hallett give Detroit depth at the aforementioned thin tight end and safety positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As expected, the Detroit Lions have placed Brian Branch on injured reserve after the safety suffered a torn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4992,14290,349,99],"class_list":["post-347335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","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\/347335","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=347335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}