{"id":959655,"date":"2026-07-30T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/959655\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:03:15","slug":"detroit-lions-training-camp-injury-report-bad-news-for-giovanni-manu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/959655\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions training camp injury report: Bad news for Giovanni Manu"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the Detroit Lions\u2019 first training camp practice, the team made a rare roster move. Despite passing his physical and practicing on Wednesday, Giovanni Manu was placed on the Non-Football Injury list. That raised questions as to whether he got hurt after practice in a non-football setting or if something else was going on.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, coach Dan Campbell gave some clarity, and it wasn\u2019t good news for the third-year offensive tackle. According to Campbell, Manu had an offseason injury that wasn\u2019t reported to the team, and he started to feel it again after practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe obviously put him on NFI. And he had an injury, a previous injury over the summer that was not disclosed,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cAnd so (he) came off the practice field, didn\u2019t feel good, got it checked, sure enough, that\u2019s what it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell estimated Manu will be out around three months, which means he\u2019s almost certainly going to start the season on the PUP list and miss at least the first four games of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, he will be out for a period of time. I don\u2019t know how long that\u2019s going to be; call it 12 weeks, 14 weeks. I don\u2019t know, we\u2019ll figure it out all down the road, but he is NFI,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get into the rest of the Lions\u2019 injury report from Day 2 of Detroit Lions training camp.<\/p>\n

RB Jahmyr Gibbs (not-injury related<\/a>)TE Tyler Conklin (PUP, calf)OT Giovanni Manu (NFI)G Christian Mahogany (NFI)EDGE Payton Turner (back)S Kerby Joseph (PUP, knee)S Brian Branch (PUP, Achilles)<\/p>\n

Gibbs continues his sit-in for the second day in a row, but Campbell emphasized that the team is not overly concerned right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt some point, it\u2019ll all get done. It\u2019s going to get done. I\u2019m not even sweating it,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n

In Gibbs\u2019 place, Isiah Pacheco and Sione Vaki continued to split time with the first-team offense.<\/p>\n

Tyler Conklin was estimated by Campbell to sit for two to three weeks, so we\u2019ll likely see him around mid-August, assuming there is no setback.<\/p>\n

After working a significant amount on the training hill on Wednesday, it looked like it was a day off from field work for Mahogany. But Campbell suggested he could be back relatively soon. Juice Scruggs continued to work as the first-team left guard in Mahogany\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

Defensive end Payton Turner sat from practice with a back injury. But Campbell suggested it was not serious.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got a little bit of a stiff back, so just got that, but we don\u2019t think that\u2019ll be anything serious,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n

Joseph also was not doing any field work after an intense workout on Wednesday. The Lions safety spoke to the media after practice, but didn\u2019t offer much insight into his timeline for a return, and remained optimistic about his chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super optimistic. I never gave up,\u201d Joseph said. \u201cI\u2019m always going to work hard. All I do is work! If you see me outside, I\u2019m working.\u201d<\/p>\n

Branch continues to be outside with the team at practice going through mental reps, but he doesn\u2019t appear ready for true on-field work with a trainer yet.<\/p>\n

Not practicing, but working on the side<\/p>\n

S Christian Izien (NFI, flu)<\/p>\n

Izien continues to look the closest to being able to return. For the second straight day, he was working with a trainer in a helmet and pads, as he works through the flu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Detroit Lions\u2019 first training camp practice, the team made a rare roster move. Despite passing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[121340,7452,7],"class_list":["post-959655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-detroit-lions-injuries","tag-detroit-lions-training-camp","tag-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117009776887302665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959655","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=959655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}