The Detroit Lions opened up minicamp on Tuesday, but prior to taking the field, Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell provided some injury\/participation updates. Most notably, he gave a promising outlook for Pro Bowl tight end Sam LaPorta, who has been recovering from back surgery. LaPorta has been part of walkthroughs\/jog-throughs for most of the offseason program, but not much else. Campbell believes his rehab is on track and he\u2019s trending toward being available for training camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe like where he is going, he is trending the right way,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s jump into the full injury report from Tuesday\u2019s practice\u2014which is unofficial and based on my own observations.<\/p>\n
Law, Joseph, and Branch are all expected to miss the rest of the offseason program, and only Joseph appears to have a shot at practicing in training camp. As in previous practices, we did see Branch come out for the last half of practice to chop it up with teammates and help out where he could.<\/p>\n
Last week, Campbell gave an update on Bartch, admitting that they\u2019re holding him out for precautionary reasons. That said, when Bartch returns to the field, which is expected to be at training camp, he will jump into the left guard competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a reason why we brought in Bartch. There\u2019s a reason why (Miles) Frazier is here,\u201d Campell said. \u201c[\u2026] We\u2019re going to let this thing go and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maddox\u2019s absence was not injury related. Campbell said it for was personal reasons.<\/p>\n
Conklin was out during last week\u2019s OTAs and now he is out for another week, suggesting this may be injury related. It\u2019s unclear at this point what Conklin is dealing with, but it\u2019s worth noting that Campbell did not point out any new, serious injuries with the team.<\/p>\n
LaPorta did his normal work during walkthroughs, and then spent a significant amount of practice sprinting and working out with a trainer to the side.<\/p>\n
No explanation was given for Bridgwater\u2019s absence last week, but he was back Tuesday. Rakestraw and Ya-Sin returned after missing last week with an illness. Those two split team reps as the first-team outside cornerbacks opposite D.J. Reed.<\/p>\n
Arnold\u2019s situation is similar to LaPorta. He participated in walkthroughs\u2014on the second-team side of the field\u2014but he also took part in some individual and positional drills. Eventually he left with a trainer, but very late in practice, Arnold did return to the field with his helmet on. At that point, it was too late to get in any team reps, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions opened up minicamp on Tuesday, but prior to taking the field, Detroit Lions coach Dan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[264323,291781,4992,39966,2130,349,99],"class_list":["post-708104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-injuries","tag-detroit-lions-otas","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroit-lions-preseason","tag-detroit-lions-training-camp","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708104","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=708104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}