RAS: 9.9<\/a>). He was widely considered the most NFL-ready tackle in this draft class.<\/p>\nWhile Miller and Borom will indeed battle it out for the starting right tackle position in training camp, reading between the lines at spring practices gives a strong indication that the Lions are expecting Miller to win the job; Miller took every spring practice rep at right tackle, while Borom split his time between the right and left sides\u2014a more typical cross-training style that you see with a swing OT3.<\/p>\n
What will Borom\u2019s role be?<\/p>\n
Borom has a solid history of playing right tackle in the NFL, but he also has starting experience at left tackle and guard. While he\u2019ll get a chance to compete, it appears likely that he is headed for a swing OT3 role, as well as a potential OL6 role in jumbo sets.<\/p>\n
If Borom can continue his play from the second half of last season (in Miami), he should be considered an upgrade to the Lions OT3 position. His ability to play on both sides of the line, as well as guard in a pinch, gives the Lions a lot of flexibility. He\u2019s also likely to assume the Lions OL6 position, where he\u2019ll \u201creport\u201d as an eligible offensive lineman that lines up in an inline tight end role when the Lions want to add more blocking bulk and power.<\/p>\n
Is this a make-or-break training camp for Giovanni Manu?<\/p>\n
After an unmemorable rookie season, followed by a sophomore campaign that saw him initially win the OT3 role out of training camp, only to land on injured reserve after four games and never return, Manu could be entering a make-or-break training camp in 2025.<\/p>\n
The section on roster construction tells the story here. In 2025, Manu was the third and final tackle on the roster for the first month of the season. In 2024, the Lions kept four tackles, but only kept three active on game day, with Manu acting as a weekly healthy scratch. In the previous three seasons, only three offensive tackles made the initial roster under this regime.<\/p>\n
With Sewell, Miller, and Borom looking solid in roles, Manu will either need to make significant improvement in his development to challenge for the OT3 role, or show enough promise that he forces the Lions to break from their typical roster construction plans and keep an OT4. That\u2019s a tough road.<\/p>\n
One of the reasons the Lions have previously kept only three offensive tackles on the active roster is that they typically stash at least one pure tackle on the practice squad and cross-train some of their interior depth for emergencies. Colby Sorsdal, Miles Frazier, Mason Miller, and rookie Melvin Priestly all have extensive experience playing tackle in college and have previously, or are expected to, cross-train inside-and-out this training camp.<\/p>\n
Sorsdal began his NFL career repping at right tackle, then kicked inside and cross-trained the previous two seasons. This spring, during OTAs and minicamp, Sorsdal was back at right tackle opposite Cochran on the third-team. Unless he can climb the depth chart in camp, Sorsdal will likely be positioning himself for a spot on the practice squad.<\/p>\n
Frazier spent a season as LSU\u2019s left tackle, but he has twice as much experience at guard, and it shouldn\u2019t be surprising that he\u2019s been mainly repping inside in Detroit. That being said, coach Dan Campbell has repeatedly said Frazier is being cross-trained at tackle for emergencies, and when you combine that with his overall upside\u2014he\u2019s expected to, at a minimum, win a reserve job on the active roster\u2014his development could be yet another obstacle for Manu to overcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this installment of our Detroit Lions 2026 training camp preview series, we examine the Lions\u2019 offensive tackle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[2131,39966,2130,349,99],"class_list":["post-773656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-analysis","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\/773656","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=773656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}