A positive update from Jordan Schultz: Rolder will miss time, but it is not considered a \u201csevere injury\u201d <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a tough break for Rolder, as he had a promising start to training camp. While he wasn\u2019t likely to be a prominent feature on Detroit\u2019s defense in his rookie season, the former Michigan linebacker was in line for a significant role on special teams.<\/p>\n
Back in the spring, Lions coaches were optimistic about how Rolder was progressing in the early stages of his NFL career.<\/p>\n
\u201cStill has a lot of room for growth, but I\u2019m pretty good with where he is now,\u201d Lions linebacker coach Shaun Dion Hamilton said in June. \u201cI just continue to challenge him day in and day out, where it\u2019s always a learning curve for rookies coming from college football to the pros, but I\u2019m excited to work with him, and it\u2019s gonna be a lot of meat on the bone and a lot of things that he can grow (from) coming into training camp.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it appears Rolder\u2019s development will have to be on hold.<\/p>\n
At this point, it\u2019s unclear just how long \u201ca while\u201d is, but Detroit cannot place him on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list now that training camp has started. If the Lions opt to place him on injured reserve now, his rookie season will be over. But Detroit could opt to carry him to roster cutdowns, then place him on IR, and he would only have to miss a four-game minimum.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll likely get more clarity on Rolder\u2019s issue the next time Dan Campbell is scheduled to talk to the media, which is Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A positive update from Jordan Schultz: Rolder will miss time, but it is not considered a \u201csevere injury\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[264323,4992,349,99],"class_list":["post-798226","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\/798226","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=798226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}