It was a welcomed day of relatively good injury news from Allen Park, as the Detroit Lions took the field for their 11th training camp practice off the offseason. The Lions got a starter back at practice, and a few others appear to be en route to returning\u2014possibly very soon.<\/p>\n
Lions coach Dan Campbell also gave some relatively promising news regarding safeties Kerby Joseph and Brian Branch.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis rehab is coming along very well,\u201d Campbell said of Joseph. \u201cSo I still see him on the Branch plan, if that makes sense. And Branch is doing well, too. So those guys, we\u2019re talking about on down the road, the season\u2019s already begun, but I like where Kerby is at.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at the rest of the team\u2019s injury situation, based on my own personal observations, as there are no official injury reports in the offseason.<\/p>\n
After missing just one day of practice, Maddox was back out there with his teammates. At this point, Maddox is expected to be a starter, so it\u2019s great news his absence did not appear to be serious. He wasn\u2019t in on many team drills with Thomas Harper working in with the starters.<\/p>\n
Working with trainers, not practicing:<\/p>\n
RB Sione Vaki (broken nose, poked eye)LB Malcolm Rodriguez (ankle)EDGE Derrick Moore (groin)<\/p>\n
Great news to see Sione Vaki out there doing work with a trainer and a helmet on. He was sporting a visor to protect his face and his eye was still bloodshot. It\u2019s hard to know when the Lions would be comfortable putting him out there with such a unique injury, but the fact that he\u2019s putting a helmet on is certainly a good sign.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez did as much action with a trainer as I have seen since his exit with an ankle injury. He could be on the track to returning soon, but it\u2019s still been Devin White filling in with the first-team defense.<\/p>\n
Moore continues to get in work, and is likely nearing a return. We are on Day 8 of Campbell\u2019s 7-to-10 day estimate for Moore\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n
RB Isiah Pacheco (knee)RB Jabari Small (undisclosed) OT Giovanni Manu (NFI)OT Devin Cochran (undisclosed)C Cade Mays (wrist)G Juice Scruggs (undisclosed)EDGE Payton Turner (back)DT Aidan Keanaaina (undisclosed)LB Damone Clark (undisclosed)LB Jimmy Rolder (leg)CB Khalil Dorsey (undisclosed) S Kerby Joseph (PUP, knee)S Brian Branch (PUP, Achilles)<\/p>\n
Small has been favoring his knee for several practices now, so it\u2019s not surprising to see him take a day off. But he can\u2019t afford to take too many days off, as he is locked in with Jacob Saylors for the RB4 battle.<\/p>\n
\u201cSmall\u2019s having a good camp,\u201d Campbell said Monday. \u201cI mean, I feel like those two guys are just jockeying with each other right now. One guy\u2019s a little bit ahead. The next day, the other guy\u2019s a little bit ahead. And I love where they\u2019re at on special teams because that\u2019ll be big for both of those players.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cochran left practice very early on Monday, so his absence is not unexpected. Miles Frazier continued to get plenty of reps at tackle to help with the shorthanded unit.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t see Dorsey out there, leaving Ennis Rakestraw to pull some double duty with the second and third teams.<\/p>\n
WR Jameson Williams (wind)<\/p>\n
There was a scary moment during the final drill of practice when Jameson Williams came down with an out route on the sidelines and stayed down for a minute or two. However, word is he only got the wind knocked out of him, and he was all smiles coming off the field, so there is no concern there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a welcomed day of relatively good injury news from Allen Park, as the Detroit Lions took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[264323,2130,349,99],"class_list":["post-810417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-injuries","tag-detroit-lions-training-camp","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810417","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=810417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}