Down at the NFL Combine, the Detroit Lions offered more updates on the health of safety Kerby Joseph, who battled a knee injury for most of 2025. The news, as it has been since the injury occurred, is mixed. But one thing is pretty clear: the Lions are unwilling to state their level of confidence in Joseph being ready to go in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s tough to say. We\u2019ve been treating him. He\u2019s done a few things. We\u2019re in\u2014I would say\u2014the position now to where we\u2019re slowly working him back,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cWhat is this going to look like? How is this going to feel? Call it a month from now. We\u2019ll have a lot better idea. Is this something where he\u2019s going to be able to handle what he\u2019s going to feel like, or can we get it stable enough, or can we get enough strength? It\u2019s all of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obviously, that\u2019s not a particularly encouraging update. From the get-go, it seems the Lions\u2019 message has been to manage this injury, not cure it. Back in December, Campbell said this regarding Joseph\u2019s injury:<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily going away, but I think you do the best you can to manage it. It\u2019s like a lot of these guys, you know that they\u2019ve got some injuries here or dealing with cartilage or meniscus or anything like that, you do your best to manage it. There\u2019ll always be a little wear and tear, it\u2019s just how bad is it.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Joseph himself said, \u201cYou don\u2019t fix it. Just keep your faith.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joseph\u2019s knee injury cost him the final 11 games of the season. At one point, he attempted to return with a heavy brace on his leg, but after just one practice, he was back on the sideline and eventually placed on injured reserve. This has led some to speculate that Joseph\u2019s injury is career-altering, a stance <\/a>refuted by a single report from Jordan Schultz<\/a>.<\/p>\n But if we\u2019re being honest, the conversation about the injury\u2014from both the Lions and Joseph himself\u2014has been discouraging at every moment. Hopefully, when the Lions supposedly get more clarity in a month or two, the news will be more positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Down at the NFL Combine, the Detroit Lions offered more updates on the health of safety Kerby Joseph,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13944,153,1889,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-774558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-detroit-lions-injury-report","9":"tag-detroit-lions-news","10":"tag-detroit-lions-quotes","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116129237087103305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774558","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=774558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}