{"id":900541,"date":"2026-10-31T01:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900541\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T01:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:38:18","slug":"detroit-lions-injury-update-isiah-pacheco-kerby-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900541\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions injury update: Isiah Pacheco, Kerby Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"

This offseason, the Detroit Lions signed Isiah Pacheco to contend for the team\u2019s RB2 spot after trading David Montgomery to the Houston Texans. Unfortunately, Pacheco dealt with a MCL injury in training camp and while rehabbing, he suffered a more serious back injury that required surgery. The latest we heard was that it was a 12-week injury and Pacheco could return by December<\/a>. On Friday, coach Dan Campbell offered an update.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s progressing well,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cYeah, I do think there\u2019s a chance we could get him back in late December, mid-December maybe. There\u2019s a chance here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell praised the work Pacheco has been putting in for rehab.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s put a tremendous amount of work in, and he\u2019s doing pretty good,\u201d Campbell said. \u201c\u2026Pacheco is\u2014you go back there, and he\u2019s ready to go, man. It\u2019s just a matter of letting it continue to heal, but he\u2019s doing a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell also provided an update on Kerby Joseph, who returned to practice this week. Campbell noted that Joseph has responded well to the work in practice, but that they haven\u2019t started to work him into team drills yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s done a good job,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cIt\u2019s good so far. Now there again, we haven\u2019t taken any team reps. It\u2019s all been individual and group. But he\u2019s handled that well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plan is to progress him slowly, get him some after-practice cardio that he\u2019s not getting in practice, and work him into more team drills next week. Campbell didn\u2019t outright say it, but the heavy implication is that Joseph will be out for this week against the Vikings.<\/p>\n

Joseph was wearing a compression sleeve on Thursday after not wearing one on Wednesday, but Campbell noted not to read into that.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny way you can reduce any swelling that could be or minimize it, you\u2019re always going to do that with anything: elbow, shoulder, people coming of an injury,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cSo that\u2019s not\u2014Like i said, we\u2019re in the infant stage of this. It\u2019s been positive to this date. So that\u2019s the best way to say that.\u201d<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Joseph was not at practice on Friday, but here\u2019s the full quote from Campbell before practice on the plan for him:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s done a good job. It\u2019s good so far. Now there again, we haven\u2019t taken any team reps. It\u2019s all been individual and group. But he\u2019s handled that well. That was kind of the point. We just progress him slowly here, work him in. We get him a little bit more today of that type of work. Plus, we surplus after the fact. We still do some rehabilitation, get him some of those miles that he\u2019s not getting right now that he normally gets; the running, the volume. And then next week we\u2019ll have him in real practice. So he\u2019ll do the (individual drills) and all that. That\u2019ll be the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2: Apparently, Joseph did practice, after the media was no longer present:<\/p>\n

Short updates on LB Devin White, S Thomas Harper<\/p>\n

In the middle of his update on Pacheco, Campbell gave an unprompted update on linebacker Devin White, who suffered a broken forearm three weeks ago that is believed to have needed surgery. White was in the locker room this week without anything protective on his arm, and Campbell noted he\u2019s progressing well.<\/p>\n

\u201cDevin White\u2019s doing pretty good, too,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n

White must miss three more games before he\u2019s eligible to return to practice, meaning the earliest he could play is Week 11 vs. the Buccaneers.<\/p>\n

Campbell was also asked about reserve safety Thomas Harper, who landed on injured reserve after suffering an ankle injury against the Buffalo Bills in Week 2. Harper is now eligible to return to practice, and Campbell indicated he\u2019s close to healthy enough to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s doing pretty good,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cIf we need him or (he was) on call, I think he\u2019s close to being ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Harper, it sounds like the Lions may put his return on hold a bit. Campbell seemed to indicate that they are happy with the current status of the safety room\u2014with Brian Branch\u2019s return to the lineup last week and Kerby Joseph\u2019s return to practice this week, along with Chuck Clark and Keith Abney filling out the room.<\/p>\n

If the Lions chose to return him to practice, they\u2019d only have three weeks to either place him on the 53-man roster or place him on injured reserve. Campbell indicated they don\u2019t want to start that clock yet, because they could hit the end of that 21-day period and still not need him on the roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of you got who you\u2019ve got, and (if) you start that (evaluation) clock and then you keep going here a little bit and you don\u2019t need him, then you\u2019ve got to IR him or you\u2019ve got to\u2014so we\u2019re just kind of playing it safe. But he\u2019s physically doing well,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This offseason, the Detroit Lions signed Isiah Pacheco to contend for the team\u2019s RB2 spot after trading David…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[264323,4992,349,99],"class_list":["post-900541","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\/900541","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=900541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}