{"id":848561,"date":"2026-09-15T11:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848561\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:38:21","slug":"lions-running-back-isiah-pacheco-had-back-surgery-will-miss-significant-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848561\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions running back Isiah Pacheco had back surgery, will miss significant time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lions running back Isiah Pacheco started the season on injured reserve, and he won\u2019t be on the field any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Pacheco had back surgery and is out for the foreseeable future, Lions head coach Dan Campbell said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be a while. It\u2019s gonna be a while. I really can\u2019t \u2014 it\u2019ll be a significant amount of time,\u201d Campbell said of Pacheco\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Rapoport reported that Pacheco could be back in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions could use some more depth at running back, as <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jahmyr-gibbs-had-career-high-29-carries-and-dan-campbell-says-he-can-do-even-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jahmyr Gibbs had a huge workload<\/a> on Sunday and can\u2019t realistically be expected to get that many carries every week. The Lions\u2019 No. 2 running back, Sione Vaki, struggled in pass protection on Sunday, and Campbell described him as \u201cinconsistent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there doesn\u2019t appear to be any hope that Pacheco will be coming back soon to give Gibbs some relief. The backup running back situation in Detroit is still an open question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions running back Isiah Pacheco started the season on injured reserve, and he won\u2019t be on the field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-848561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848561","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=848561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}