The Detroit Lions made a minor move on Monday, signing safety Jalen Mills to their practice squad. He takes up the vacant spot on the 16-man squad after the Lions signed Levi Onwuzurike to the 53-man roster over the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a workout this morning just looking for a veteran guy,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cAnd then we\u2019re looking for some of these safeties that are on other teams right now that are promising young players that we could potentially poach and bring in and let them compete.\u201d<\/p>\n
As of the release of Monday\u2019s transaction wire, the Lions had not made any additional moves in their secondary.<\/p>\n
Mills, 32, will now be entering his 11th NFL season, starting first as a seventh-round pick of the Philadelphia Eagles back in 2016. Over the course of the next decade, Mills would start 92 games, make 122 game appearances, and play for five different teams, including the Lions last year. Detroit picked Mills up on waivers after Brian Branch\u2019s injury, and the veteran ended up playing three games for the Lions down the stretch.<\/p>\n
Though Mills entered the league as a cornerback, he\u2019s been playing at either nickel or safety since 2023. He\u2019s a willing run defender and plays with some swagger.<\/p>\n
Mills will have to work his way into the lineup. For now, it appears Detroit will move forward with Chuck Clark, Thomas Harper, and Christian Izien as their three safety options on the 53-man roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions made a minor move on Monday, signing safety Jalen Mills to their practice squad. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1007568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,153,2705,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":["post-1007567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroit-lions-transactions","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-lions","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117313988435387340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}