April 2, 2026, 12:48 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Michigan<\/a> fans will be familiar with Rayshaun Benny – a big man in the middle of the defense. The Lions<\/a> could use a big man with the likely loss of DJ Reader<\/a> this offseason in free agency.<\/p>\n Here is the excerpt of my medical report on Benny:<\/a><\/p>\n (Ages in parentheses are at start of 2026 season and are factored into the concern level. Injury info and ages based on available public information are unverified and subject to update. Games played data courtesy of\u00a0sports-reference.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Rayshaun Benny, DT (24) – Michigan<\/p>\n Projected round 4-6.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n Concern level 3\/10<\/p>\n Benny had a reliable final season at Michigan, but was banged up a couple times in the prior two seasons. The broken fibula in the 2023 season isn\u2019t a concern if it\u2019s isolated. But if it involved the ankle joint, it could be more of an issue.<\/p>\n A remote knee injury in high school needs some investigation, but he\u2019s proven himself in multiple college seasons since. His age is older than ideal.<\/p>\n For more\u00a0Lions<\/a>\u00a0coverage, follow us on X,\u00a0@TheLionsWire<\/a>, and give our\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page a like.\u00a0Follow Jimmy on X,\u00a0@JimmyLiaoMD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 2, 2026, 12:48 p.m. ET Michigan fans will be familiar with Rayshaun Benny – a big man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[95878,146,113,2506,7,147,6,52959,96502,95882,95930,96242,95893,98267,95896,95888,95897,96071,95883,95894,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-849696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfllions","16":"tag-sstsnlions","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","19":"tag-tagdetroit-lions","20":"tag-tagfacebook","21":"tag-tagmichigan-wolverines","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagoverall-negative","25":"tag-tagsmg-timely","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-tagtwitter","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116336347733073373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849696","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=849696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}