May 24, 2026, 8:26 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
The Lions<\/a> aren’t quite finished with free agency yet, as they recently added WR Cedrick Wilson Jr to the team. He brings a veteran presence, but also some injury concerns heading into the 2026 season.<\/p>\n Here is the Cedrick Wilson Medical Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n Medical concern level ranges from 0 (no concern) to 10 (extreme).<\/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 and are unverified – subject to update. Games played data courtesy of pro-football-reference.com)<\/p>\n Cedrick Wilson, WR (30)<\/p>\n Contract: pending<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n Medical Concern Level: 6\/10<\/p>\n Wilson has had many injury issues over his career. Most of them have been of the mild variety, but he does have a knee and shoulder surgery history.<\/p>\n The recent knee surgery might be a clean-up of cartilage, which would carry residual concerns. There appear to be recurrent shoulder injuries over his career. These issues combined with his age over 30 present reliability concerns.<\/p>\n What\u2019s reassuring is that he finished out last season healthy and has a good track record of availability over the past six seasons. He is likely on just a 1-year deal with minimal to no guarantees, which would keep the risk low for the Lions.<\/p>\n Production has been scant recently with just 5 receptions in 2025, and 20 receptions in 2024. He only played 21 special teams snaps in 2025, so may not be much help there.<\/p>\n While the Lions\u2019 top three WR\u2019s are firmly set with Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, and Isaac TeSlaa, there is room for Wilson to earn a role as a veteran backup.<\/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":"May 24, 2026, 8:26 p.m. ET The Lions aren’t quite finished with free agency yet, as they recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[95878,146,113,2506,7,147,6,119937,52959,96502,95882,105396,96242,100500,95895,95899,96071,95883,95881],"class_list":["post-900603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-accessfree","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-lions","tag-nfl","tag-sourcelions-wire","tag-sstssportsnfllions","tag-sstsnlions","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcedrick-wilson-jr","tag-tagdetroit-lions","tag-taginjury","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116633705080995828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900603","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=900603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}