{"id":829330,"date":"2026-03-23T15:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/829330\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:34:35","slug":"detroit-lions-free-agency-injury-report-greg-dortch-wr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/829330\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions Free Agency Injury Report: Greg Dortch, WR"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lions <\/a>added a wide receiver in Greg Dortch during free agency<\/a> who has a stranger-than-fiction history of puncturing his small intestine landing on a pylon. What happened to him medically and what is his outlook?<\/p>\n

Here is the excerpt from my medical review of Dortch<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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(The following information and analysis is based on available public information. Age in parentheses is at start of 2026 season.)<\/p>\n

Greg Dortch, WR (28)<\/p>\n

Contract:\u00a01 year, $1.075M guaranteed, up to $1.4M<\/a><\/p>\n

Concern level 2\/10<\/p>\n

The recent chest injury designation could mean a lot of things – from a pec strain (common) to SC joint sprain (uncommon) to lung pneumothorax (see Cade Cunningham, uncommon). I haven\u2019t found a definitive diagnosis for Dortch yet. Most non-surgical \u201cchest\u201d injuries should be healed up by now, which seems to be the case here.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s really remarkable is the intestinal injury he suffered in college. Who knew pylons could cause such damage?<\/p>\n

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Dortch had what is medically known as an intestinal tract perforation. He described symptoms of feeling \u201chollow\u201d. When an intestinal perf happens, there can be a leak of air from the intestines into the abdominal cavity. Dortch\u2019s \u201chollow\u201d feeling may have been due to his abdomen filling up with air like a balloon.<\/p>\n

An intestinal perforation is a serious issue that can become life-threatening due to the risk of infection. Dortch and the medical staff did the right thing by seeking an emergency room evaluation immediately after the game.<\/p>\n

Urgent surgery was performed to repair the intestinal perforation, and Dortch has been fine since. There are minimal concerns going forward.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Lions Wire: Detroit Lions Free Agency Injury Report: Greg Dortch, WR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lions added a wide receiver in Greg Dortch during free agency who has a stranger-than-fiction history of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[65305,43922,146,113,2506,12584,7,11500,114602,114603,147,6],"class_list":["post-829330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-chest-injury","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-dortch","tag-football","tag-greg-dortch","tag-intestinal-perforation","tag-intestinal-tract","tag-lions","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116279224992788158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829330","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=829330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}