The Detroit Lions have had to deal with quite a few injuries in their secondary this training camp, but they got a bit of good news on Monday. Head coach Dan Campbell announced that corner\/special teams ace Khalil Dorsey was activated from the physically unable to perform (PUP) list and would begin practicing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to start Khalil Dorsey, he\u2019s going to start (practicing) today,\u201d Campbell announced at his press conference. \u201cWe\u2019ll start today, individual, group, some of that stuff. Hopefully, by the end of the week, we\u2019ll get him worked into a few things. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019ll play (against the Texans) or not, but this is a step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dorsey has been unable to practice since breaking his leg in a Week 15 game against the Buffalo Bills last season. He opened 2025 training camp on the PUP, and Campbell noted at that time that the goal was to try to bring him back \u201clate in camp\u201d to try and get him ready for the regular season. That will give Dorsey two weeks before the regular season officially begins, and a full 20 days before the Lions\u2019 opening game to get acclimated back to football.<\/p>\n
This week, the Lions have two traditional training camp practices before welcoming in the Houston Texans on Thursday, and then playing them in their final preseason game on Saturday. Cutdowns are the following Tuesday, with the regular season schedule kicking off on Monday, September 1, with the Lions\u2019 first regular season game being against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, September 7.<\/p>\n
Dorsey\u2019s return comes at an important time in the offseason. So far, the Lions have lost cornerbacks Ennis Rakestraw and DiCaprio Bootle to injured reserve, and could use some more experienced depth players on the outside. After starters Terrion Arnold, D.J. Reed, and Amik Robertson, the Lions have been leaning on veterans Rock Ya-Sin on the outside and Avonte Maddox at nickel, as their top reserves. Both veterans have also been cross-training at safety, as well. Beyond that, the Lions have six cornerbacks competing for a spot on the roster, but none have more than three years of experience.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s very likely the Lions won\u2019t need Dorsey at corner early in the season, but as one of the better starting gunners in the NFL, Detroit will surely want to see if he\u2019s ready to contribute on special teams as soon as possible. However, if he\u2019s unable to jump in immediately, the Lions do have some quality options to lean on. In Dorsey\u2019s absence, the Lions have primarily been using four gunners: Ya-Sin, and rookie receivers Isaac TeSlaa, Dominic Lovett, and Jackson Meeks. With at least three and maybe all four of those players in contention to make the 53-man roster, the Lions can make sure Dorsery is fully back before throwing him into the starting mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions have had to deal with quite a few injuries in their secondary this training camp,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,449,13944,23618,7452,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-298691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroit-lions-analysis","11":"tag-detroit-lions-injury-report","12":"tag-detroit-lions-preseason","13":"tag-detroit-lions-training-camp","14":"tag-detroitlions","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-lions","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115051329673776897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298691","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=298691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}