If you look upon the Detroit Lions\u2019 Thursday injury report for their Week 3 game against the New York Jets, it may look daunting. After all, four offensive linemen don the list, and Detroit can ill-afford any more injuries at the position. But upon closer examination, the news is mostly good for that unit.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s break down the entire injury report below.<\/p>\n
Note: Any changes from the most recent injury report will be bolded.<\/p>\n
Bartch and Harper missing a second straight practice is an ominous sign for both of their availabilities on Sunday vs. the Jets. In fact, it sounds more and more likely that Harper will miss the game based on how Lions defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard spoke of getting Christian Izien ready to potentially start this week alongside Chuck Clark.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to see Christian Izien and go out there and fly around at the safety spot this week,\u201d Sheppard said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear what Bartch\u2019s prognosis is nor is it clear whether this foot injury is related to the one that ended his 2025 season and limited him in training camp.<\/p>\n
No change for all three of the Lions\u2019 starting offensive linemen on the injury report. However, it was suggested that both Mahogany and Miller may have played last week if the game was on Sunday instead of Thursday. Therefore, it seems likely on track to play again this week, barring any setbacks.<\/p>\n
Less is known about Ratledge\u2019s injury, but the fact that he wasn\u2019t downgraded to no practice on Thursday is a positive sign that this was not a sudden, serious injury that popped up during practice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
For now, there\u2019s no reason to believe that Detroit\u2019s projected starting lineup\u2014Penei Sewell, Christian Mahogany, Juice Scruggs, Tate Ratledge, and Blake Miller\u2014will be disrupted this week.<\/p>\n
As expected, McNeill was back at practice on Thursday, and it doesn\u2019t appear he\u2019s in any danger of missing Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the same positive outlook for Hatten. Lions special teams coordinator Dave Fipp reassured reporters on Thursday that Hatten is essentially unaffected by the wrist injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe snapped fine yesterday and he\u2019ll play in the game. He looks good to me,\u201d Fipp said.<\/p>\n
Did not practice on Thursday:<\/p>\n
Practiced in full on Wednesday:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you look upon the Detroit Lions\u2019 Thursday injury report for their Week 3 game against the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1009770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,121340,153,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":["post-1009769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroit-lions-injuries","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-lions","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117327868955508007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009769","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=1009769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}