Detroit Lions rookies report to training camp on Saturday, and veterans will follow on Monday. One of the first steps for players upon their return to the Meijer Performance Center is to get a physical prior to taking the field. That means those who aren\u2019t ready will be placed on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) or Non-Football Injury (NFI) list until they are medically cleared.<\/p>\n
Many eyes will be on whether Lions safety Kerby Joseph will start camp on the PUP list due to the knee injury he\u2019s been dealing with for nearly an entire year. But Joseph offered some vaguely optimistic words about his current health via Twitter on Saturday morning. Responding to a tweet that was wondering whether Joseph would start training camp on the PUP list, Joseph replied, \u201cHow much yall wanna bet im not on there\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if Joseph avoids the PUP list, it\u2019s hard to know how Detroit will manage his injury in training camp and the preseason. In the spring, Campbell said they didn\u2019t really know what to expect from Joseph\u2019s knee and they\u2019ll really only know for sure once he\u2019s out there on the field testing it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\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,\u201d Campbell said in June. \u201cSo 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
The Lions\u2019 first training camp practice is currently scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions rookies report to training camp on Saturday, and veterans will follow on Monday. One of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[264323,4992,349,99],"class_list":["post-784166","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\/784166","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=784166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}