With the Lions moving on from Taylor Decker earlier this offseason, Penei Sewell is now set to move over to left tackle for the 2026 season. <\/p>\n
While he\u2019s primarily played right tackle in the league, Sewell is not a stranger to the left side, having played on that side in college. He\u2019s also made some spot starts for Detroit at the position over his first five pro seasons. <\/p>\n
Late last week, head coach Dan Campbell said Sewell has handled the full-time transition well so far. <\/p>\n
\u201c[H]e\u2019s been working it even being back home before we started [the] offseason [program], once I gave him the words,\u201d Campbell said in his press conference, via transcript from the team. \u201cSo, it\u2019ll be like riding a bike for him. Will it be things he\u2019ll have to learn? Yeah, of course there will be. But I mean he has played left. That\u2019s muscle memory.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe played a lot of left in college and for us for those in \u201921, those first few games. And he still took reps at left even over the last five years, so that\u2019ll be seamless. That\u2019ll be seamless. Sewell can do it all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since Detroit made him the No. 7 overall pick in the 2021 draft, Sewell has started all 83 games he\u2019s played. He\u2019s been an AP first-team All-Pro in each of the last three seasons and a Pro Bowler for each of the last four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Lions moving on from Taylor Decker earlier this offseason, Penei Sewell is now set to move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-678112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678112","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=678112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}