{"id":229627,"date":"2025-07-23T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/229627\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:08:10","slug":"detroit-lions-continuing-to-hype-up-marcus-davenport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/229627\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions continuing to hype up Marcus Davenport"},"content":{"rendered":"

While conversations remain about whether the Detroit Lions<\/a> will add to their defensive line room, one thing remains consistent: the team\u2019s faith in Marcus Davenport. <\/p>\n

This team has been singing Davenport\u2019s praises ever since they signed him to a one-year deal last year. And they\u2019re back at it again now. Take, for example, coach Dan Campbell\u2019s answer to a question on Sirius XM about seeing Aidan Hutchinson back on the field after his leg injury in 2024. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou talk about his sight for sore eyes, and then just when you think you can\u2019t feel any better, you see Davenport on the other side,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cI know it\u2019s only three days, but boy, he looks good, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davenport has a long history with Campbell. In fact, all the way to the beginning of his NFL career, when he was drafted in the first round by the New Orleans Saints<\/a> back in 2018. When Campbell was the Saints’ assistant head coach\/tight ends coach, he was immediately enthralled by both his athleticism and power. It\u2019s safe to say those feelings have transferred to Lions general manager Brad Holmes, as well. <\/p>\n

\u201cMarcus is the perfect person to have on the other side of Aidan in terms of his ability, how he plays the game, his length, how he can push the pocket. He\u2019s a good athlete. He\u2019s powerful, his style,\u201d Holmes told SiriusXM. \u201cAll those makings, he has that. He just has had a lot of bad luck on the health front.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alas, that last point is the one that always comes up: Davenport\u2019s health. Injuries have plagued his career so much that you can tell he\u2019s sick of answering questions about them. He lasted just four games with the Vikings in 2023, and only two with Detroit last year. He\u2019s yet to play 16 games in a season, and it just seems like bad luck follows him wherever he goes. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really like it when people talk about me anymore, good or bad,\u201d Davenport said on Tuesday. \u201cShoot, I\u2019ve got to hold a chip on my shoulder, and then with every good thing, shoot, the next day people be coming after me anyways. So if people can leave me alone and let me just work, I\u2019ll be happy.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Lions admit that injury luck is sometimes just fate. There\u2019s not much anyone can do to control or stop it. But Davenport has teamed up with the medical staff this offseason to do everything they can to develop a plan to try to work the odds in their favor. And if it works, the Lions could be in business. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not always in your hands, and that\u2019s the name of the game,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s circumstances. That\u2019s the way it goes. But if he does stay healthy, oh yeah, he can do it. Yeah. There\u2019s no question. He\u2019s gonna give us everything we\u2019re looking for and then some on the other side of Hutch. So what I know is he\u2019s put everything in to coming back, being stronger, being more stable, do everything he can to reduce that risk of injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over on SiriusXM, Hutchinson has even offered his services to help keep Davenport on the field this year. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna try to give him as many holistic approaches as I can to keep him healthy this year.\u201d <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s hoping it all works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While conversations remain about whether the Detroit Lions will add to their defensive line room, one thing remains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[47223,6015,146,113,153,1889,7452,2506,7,29,17088,147,1862,6,152,151,528,619],"class_list":{"0":"post-229627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-continuing","9":"tag-davenport","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-lions","12":"tag-detroit-lions-news","13":"tag-detroit-lions-quotes","14":"tag-detroit-lions-training-camp","15":"tag-detroitlions","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-front-page","18":"tag-hype","19":"tag-lions","20":"tag-marcus","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-of","23":"tag-pride","24":"tag-to","25":"tag-up"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114902473938805806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229627","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=229627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}