It didn\u2019t take long for third-year offensive guard Christian Mahogany to work his way back into the starting lineup. After missing the first two days of training camp while on the Non-Football Injury list, Mahogany was on the field for the Detroit Lions\u2019 Friday practice, and immediately started splitting first-team reps with veteran Juice Scruggs at left guard.<\/p>\n
Mahogany said what he was dealing with was not injury related, just referring to the absence as something internal.<\/p>\n
Mahogany will look to keep a hold on his starting job from last year, but the Lions brought in some serious competition for the former sixth-round pick. This offseason, the Lions traded for Scruggs as some competition and depth both at center and guard, and they signed veteran guard Ben Bartch to join the room, as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cLove Juice, man, he\u2019s a pro,\u201d coach Dan Campbell said Friday. \u201cHe\u2019s a pro. Same guy every day, very consistent. We know he can play center. And, some of the guard stuff is, \u2018Hey, Mahogany\u2019s out right now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Bartch hasn\u2019t truly joined the competition yet, as he\u2019s been only working in walkthroughs and individual drills, but coach Dan Campbell said he will start adding some team reps as early as next week.<\/p>\n
Mahogany says he\u2019s not bothered at all by the broken leg that shortened his 2025 season. He\u2019s also hoping to build on what was a disappointing season last year\u2014although he made sure to point out that he\u2019ll never be fully satisfied with his play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can never say I\u2019ll feel pleased (with my play),\u201d Mahogany said. \u201cI\u2019ve probably said this repetitively: Once I feel pleased, like I said, I won\u2019t be here anymore. There won\u2019t be a Christian Mahogany in the building. I won\u2019t be here once I\u2019m pleased. So I\u2019m never pleased. I definitely didn\u2019t play up to who I want to be and the player I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It didn\u2019t take long for third-year offensive guard Christian Mahogany to work his way back into the starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4992,2130,349,99],"class_list":["post-795798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroit-lions-training-camp","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795798","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=795798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}