some of those rehabilitation efforts, including acupuncture<\/a>. But the Lions are intentionally putting off any sort of on-field work. And Campbell says once he finally takes the field, that\u2019s when they\u2019ll have a better idea on how Joseph\u2019s knee will hold up.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are trying to be as smart as we can and not push this until we absolutely have to, because once we\u2019ve done that, then we\u2019ll know one way or another,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not worth it right now. We\u2019re just slowly building, continuing to strengthen there. He\u2019s getting treatment; he\u2019s done some of these different things in different places to try and help. So I feel good about that. I feel good about that we\u2019ve done everything we can and so has he. So we won\u2019t know. Honestly, we probably won\u2019t know until we get into the thick of training camp.\u201d<\/p>\n
It may not be the positive update Lions fans were hoping for, but it at least shows that both the team and Joseph himself are exploring every possible avenue to get him on the field, and have him healthy enough to stay there.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the Lions did the best they could to fortify the safety room this offseason to ensure they\u2019re covered while both Joseph and Brian Branch (torn Achilles) work their way back from injury. They added Christian Izien and Chuck Clark in free agency, and re-signed veteran Avonte Maddox.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like Izien a lot. We played against him. He\u2019s a pretty headsy player. He\u2019s pretty violent. See ball, hit ball,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t done a ton on the backend with depth, so those are things we\u2019re working through. But I feel like those are things he can do. But there again, we won\u2019t know until we get into it in real time. But I know he\u2019s got some football player to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really like that group. I really like that group. You talk about going into training camp, Chuck Clark, Maddox, Izzy, there\u2019s a ton of guys back there that\u2019ll be competing. We\u2019ve got (Thomas) Harper back, Dan Jackson is coming off injury, Strick-nine (Loren Strickland) is there. So it\u2019s a pretty competitive group, with some young players and then with some heady veteran guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mystery surrounding Kerby Joseph\u2019s injury continues. A knee injury that sidelined the Detroit Lions safety for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[264323,4992,349,99],"class_list":["post-684371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-injuries","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684371","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=684371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}