The Detroit Lions scaled back training camp practice on Wednesday after coach Dan Campbell said they were \u201chumming\u201d during Tuesday\u2019s practice. That was reflected on the injury report, where a few Lions returned from injury, but we also saw a couple of new faces out.<\/p>\n
Small made a step toward returning to action on Wednesday, suiting up for Detroit\u2019s short practice. The running back took part in positional drills, but when team drills began, he ran sprints with a trainer for the rest of practice. Small is still in contention for the Lions\u2019 RB4 job with Jacob Saylors, so if he can recover quickly enough to play in Saturday\u2019s preseason finale, he could still make a case for the spot.<\/p>\n
Fraizer, too, was held out of team drills, but he was back after missing a practice. His left leg not only has a brace on it, but also a pretty significant wrap. To accommodate his absence, the Lions had Devin Cochran run double duty at left tackle with the backups and third stringers, and Ben Bartch work with the second and third teams at left guard.<\/p>\n
Whiteside was back after leaving Tuesday\u2019s practice early. With the Lions so shorthanded at cornerback, most of his work on Wednesday was at safety with the second-team defense.<\/p>\n
Detroit was without both Derrick Moore and Ahmed Hassanein on the edge. There is currently no explanation for their absences, as they did not appear to leave Tuesday\u2019s practice early. We\u2019ll see if they are back out there for Thursday\u2019s training camp finale.<\/p>\n
Coach Dan Campbell offered an encouraging update on Trevor Nowaske after he left Tuesday\u2019s practice early.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think it\u2019s just a little strain or sprain,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cSo, I think we\u2019ll be okay here, let it calm down, so I\u2019m not as worried about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sounded a little more worried about safety Christian Izien, who could miss the team\u2019s opening game against the New Orleans Saints in just over two weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll probably be a little bit here,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll have him for the opener or not, but we\u2019ll have him. I mean, we\u2019re going to get him here. If it\u2019s not then, we\u2019ll get him here early in the season at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions scaled back training camp practice on Wednesday after coach Dan Campbell said they were \u201chumming\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[264323,4992,349,99],"class_list":["post-826902","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\/826902","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=826902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}