{"id":86480,"date":"2025-05-28T23:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/86480\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T23:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:09:12","slug":"detroit-lions-day-1-ota-highlights-photos-5-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/86480\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions Day 1 OTA highlights, photos: 5 observations"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, the Detroit Lions<\/a> took the field for their first of six Organized Team Activity (OTAs) practices over the next two weeks. With media not yet present for Lions practices, all we can gather about the session is from what the Lions themselves offered via highlights and a photo gallery. You can access the photo gallery here<\/a>. The highlights are below: <\/p>\n

Because we\u2019re starved for Lions content (both from a content producer and consumer standpoint), here\u2019s everything notable I noticed: <\/p>\n

Aidan Hutchinson is back<\/p>\n

As he promised last week, Hutchinson was medically cleared from his broken leg to participate<\/a>. He was clearly the focus of cameras, as we see him come on the field and participate in some positional drills. We do not, however, see him do any team drills. That doesn\u2019t mean he didn\u2019t participate in any, but it\u2019s worth pointing out. He may still be limited. <\/p>\n

Rock Ya-Sin appears to have nabbed an interception <\/p>\n

At the 26-second mark, we see No. 23 (Rock Ya-Sin) with the ball already in his hands and running in the other direction while the offense is chasing him. The pass appears to have been intended for Jameson Williams (now wearing No. 1). It\u2019s hard to tell who the quarterback was, but there is a brief shot of Kyle Allen with his hands in the air. <\/p>\n

Kyle Allen getting reps with starters? <\/p>\n

If Allen was indeed the culprit in the interception, that means he was throwing with Williams out here. Allen is later seen throwing a nice pass to Sam LaPorta for a toe-tapping reception along the sidelines. Could he be getting early reps? Both Jared Goff and Hendon Hooker were present, as evidenced by the final photo in Wednesday\u2019s gallery. Obviously Allen isn\u2019t in play for the starting job, but could he possibly start OTAs as QB2? Will he and Hooker split days as QB2, like the Lions have done in previous years? It\u2019s tfoo early to jump to conclusions, but it\u2019s certainly something to keep an eye on. <\/p>\n

Isaac TeSlaa sidelined? <\/p>\n

A well-timed freeze frame of the highlight reel shows a few players who were at practice but clearly not participating. It\u2019s hard to identify most of them, but one looks to be Lions third-round rookie receiver Isaac TeSlaa (in the shorts) <\/p>\n

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TeSlaa did not appear anywhere else in the highlights nor the photo gallery. He participated in the first day of rookie minicamp a few weeks back, so it\u2019s unclear if this is injury-related or not. <\/p>\n

Still no sign of 3 players<\/p>\n

No reason for panic at this point, but there have been three players who have been noticeably absent from offseason workout photos all year: Amon-Ra St. Brown, Alex Anzalone, and Frank Ragnow. <\/p>\n

For St. Brown, we know he\u2019s been in the facility, as TeSlaa previously mentioned passing him in the hallways. The Lions All-Pro receiver skipped the Pro Bowl<\/a> due to an undisclosed injury, so he may be dealing with something. For Anzalone, he has regularly skipped out on OTAs, so his potential absence is not particularly surprising. Less is known about Ragnow at this moment. <\/p>\n

Hopefully, we\u2019ll get some clarity when Dan Campbell is expected to meet with the media later this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, the Detroit Lions took the field for their first of six Organized Team Activity (OTAs) practices…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[21,146,113,153,23208,2506,7,29,3688,147,6,13969,152,11903,6429,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-86480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-day","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroit-lions-news","12":"tag-detroit-lions-otas","13":"tag-detroitlions","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-highlights","17":"tag-lions","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-observations","20":"tag-of","21":"tag-ota","22":"tag-photos","23":"tag-pride"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114587983324527163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86480","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=86480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}