{"id":792754,"date":"2026-03-05T02:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/792754\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:58:26","slug":"injury-recap-detroit-lions-suffered-zero-acl-tears-in-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/792754\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury recap: Detroit Lions suffered zero ACL tears in 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In good news on the injury front, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lionswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Lions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Lions<\/a> suffered zero ACL tears in the 2025 season. NFL teams typically average 1-2 ACL tears per season.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmyliaomd.com\/p\/lions-acl-data-bo-nix-ankle-gardner-minshew-acl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:excerpt from my story;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">excerpt from my story<\/a> at JimmyLiaoMD.com, which also includes analysis of the Bo Nix ankle fracture and Gardner Minshew&#8217;s ACL scare:<\/p>\n<p>While there has been plenty of rightful consternation about the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/detroit-lions\/334\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lions<\/a> injuries, it\u2019s important to recognize the positives. The Lions completely avoided an ACL tear during the 2025 season. NFL teams average 1-2 per season.<\/p>\n<p>The Levi Onwuzurike ACL repair in the 2025 offseason is something that is suspected to have started during the 2024 season as a partial ACL. Thus, I would not include that in the 2025 statistics.<\/p>\n<p>While there were no ACL tears last season, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmyliaomd.com\/p\/detroit-lions-hamstring-injury-analysis-2024-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:quite a number of hamstring strains;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">quite a number of hamstring strains<\/a>. &#8211; Jimmy Liao MD<\/p>\n<p>While the Lions certainly had their fair share of injury concerns in other areas, Detroit avoided any ACL tears in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/detroit-lions\/334\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lions<\/a>\u00a0coverage, follow us on X,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thelionswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@TheLionsWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@TheLionsWire<\/a>, and give our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lionswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page a like.\u00a0Follow Jimmy on X,\u00a0@<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JimmyLiaoMD\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:JimmyLiaoMD;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">JimmyLiaoMD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Lions Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/lionswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/lions\/2026\/03\/04\/detroit-lions-injury-recap-2025-zero-acl-tears\/88740957007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Injury recap: Detroit Lions suffered zero ACL tears in 2025 season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Injury recap: Detroit Lions suffered zero ACL tears in 2025 season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In good news on the injury front, the Detroit Lions suffered zero ACL tears in the 2025 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[111536,925,146,113,2506,7,8132,45499,6279,147,6],"class_list":["post-792754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-acl-tears","tag-bo-nix","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-gardner-minshew","tag-jimmy-liao","tag-levi-onwuzurike","tag-lions","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116174331592135718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792754","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=792754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}