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Five days after being carted off the field with a knee injury, C.J. Gardner-Johnson is back practicing for the Detroit Lions. Lions coach Dan Campbell said Gardner-Johnson will be a limited participant in Saturday’s training camp practice, the Lions’ first open to the general public. Gardner-Johnson suffered a knee injury in team drills Monday, in

It’s fitting that the closest thing the Detroit Lions have to a star is Penei Sewell, an offensive lineman who’s young, tough and talented. Those three traits embody what the Lions have become under Dan Campbell, just as Campbell and Brad Holmes envisioned when they started rebuilding one of the NFL’s losingest franchises 30 months

Nate Sudfeld lost his job with the San Francisco 49ers last summer when the team made a training camp tweak to its backup quarterback competition, reworking Jimmy Garoppolo’s contract to keep him and rookie Brock Purdy on the roster behind starter Trey Lance. Sudfeld said this week he isn’t worried about history repeating itself with

Dan Campbell took his hat off, wiped his mouth, then shared a story before the Detroit Lions‘ first padded practice of training camp Friday, about his first day in pads as a rookie tight end with the New York Giants 24 years ago. Campbell was a third-round pick out of Texas A&M, so he wasn’t

C.J. Gardner-Johnson is still out with the knee injury he suffered on Day 2 of training camp, but the Detroit Lions got two injured players back for their first padded practice of summer Friday. Lions coach Dan Campbell said before practice that safety Brian Branch would return from a foot injury and offensive guard Halapoulivaati

C.J. Gardner-Johnson is still out with the knee injury he suffered on Day 2 of training camp, but the Detroit Lions got two injured players back for their first padded practice of summer Friday. Lions coach Dan Campbell said before practice that safety Brian Branch would return from a foot injury and offensive guard Halapoulivaati

Justin Jackson did not lack for suitors when he became a free agent in March, but while a handful of NFL teams were interested in signing him as a backup running back/kick returner/jack-of-all-trades insurance policy, most were offering veteran-minimum type deals. Jackson averaged 4 yards per carry as the Detroit Lions’ No. 3 running back

For Malcolm Rodriguez, the biggest difference between his first NFL training camp and his second is obvious. “Less cameras,” Rodriguez said Tuesday. The star of last year’s camp thanks to the HBO docuseries “Hard Knocks,” Rodriguez has flown much further under the radar this summer. A 15-game starter at linebacker for the Detroit Lions last

The most important person who will determine the Detroit Lions’ success this year walked up to the lectern in Allen Park on Wednesday and said something that wasn’t true. No, it wasn’t Dan Campbell or Brad Holmes. It wasn’t Jared Goff or Amon-Ra St. Brown. It wasn’t even Sheila Hamp. It was Ben Johnson, the

Sam LaPorta has made the transition from college to the NFL look easy, but when a reporter mentioned how smooth things seem to have gone for him after the Detroit Lions‘ fourth practice of training camp Wednesday, the rookie tight end said that was hardly the case. “I think those are your words, not mine,”

Frank Ragnow’s toe is feeling good, but the Detroit Lions are dealing with another injury on their potential starting offensive line. Right guard Halapoulivaati Vaitai sat out practice Wednesday with an undisclosed injury. Vaitai did not finish practice Tuesday, but said on his way off the field he would be fine. He watched practice from

Frank Ragnow’s toe is feeling good, but the Detroit Lions are dealing with another injury on their potential starting offensive line. Right guard Halapoulivaati Vaitai sat out practice Wednesday with an undisclosed injury. Vaitai did not finish practice Tuesday, but said on his way off the field he would be fine. He watched practice from

Apple Podcasts | Spotify • Hosts: Shawn Windsor (@shawnwindsor) and Carlos Monarrez (@cmonarrez) • Editor: Robin Chan • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado, Kirkland Crawford • Guest: Tony Garcia, Free Press Michigan beat writer • Email: swindsor@freepress.com On this episode: Free Press sports reporter Tony Garcia joins Carlos and Shawn to discuss the very recent news of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh’s expected four-game suspension. The trio discuss

Teddy Bridgewater’s free agent visit with the Detroit Lions came and went this week without a contract agreement. The Lions have a starting quarterback in place they trust in Jared Goff, a backup Dan Campbell likes in Nate Sudfeld, and a future lottery ticket in Hendon Hooker who is taking things slowly in his return

Listening to Amon-Ra St. Brown talk, watching him work, and knowing how he can turn the slightest of slights into a bottomless tank of jet fuel, it’s impossible not to think of Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. St. Brown is coming off one of the most productive two-year stretches any receiver has had to start

As the rest of their teammates went through stretching and position drills, three Detroit Lions spent the early part of NFL training camp practice Tuesday in Allen Park working on the back field alone with a trainer in the end zone. Marvin Jones, who is on the nonfootball injury list with a back injury, ran

C.J. Gardner-Johnson “seems to be OK” after leaving practice with a knee injury Monday, but Gardner-Johnson isn’t the only Detroit Lions player who will sit out practice Tuesday. Lions coach Dan Campbell said wide receiver Jameson Williams will miss practice with a leg injury he suffered Monday. “He’s got a little something with his leg

Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown recently proved at training camp that even the best players can’t catch every ball one-handed. In a video shared out Monday afternoon by the Lions’ social media team, St. Brown was repeatedly making one-handed catches from the JUGS Machine, which shoots out footballs and is a way for

C.J. Gardner-Johnson “seems to be OK” after leaving practice with a knee injury Monday, but Gardner-Johnson isn’t the only Detroit Lion who will sit out practice Tuesday. Lions coach Dan Campbell said wide receiver Jameson Williams will miss practice with a leg injury he suffered Monday. “He’s got a little something with his leg so

Does Detroit Lions receiver Denzel Mims have a chip on his shoulder? “(Expletive) yeah,” he said Monday after he finished practice with his new team in Allen Park. “(Expletive) yeah.” That’s a start, eh? A little something for Dan Campbell and Ben Johnson and Jared Goff to work with? Then again, most professional athletes who