With the Detroit Lions taking the field for Day 4 of training camp on Sunday, it was another opportunity to get some updates on the health of their players. For the most part, it was good news\u2014particularly when it comes to Alim McNeill and Christian Izien. The news is a little more mixed for Jimmy Rolder and a few other players.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s break it all down below.<\/p>\n
After leaving Friday\u2019s practice early, McNeill was back on the field the next practice. He explained after practice that he had been kicked in the head on Friday and needed to go through evaluations. He\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n
As expected, Izien made his training camp debut on Sunday. After battling the flu to start camp, he is officially off the Non-Football Illness list and got some work with the first and second teams at both nickel and safety<\/p>\n
It\u2019s worth noting Jahmyr Gibbs was out on the field supporting his team as he continues his hold-in. This was the first time I\u2019ve seen him out there with the team, but he avoided media after practice.<\/p>\n
Tyler Conklin looks to be on the path toward returning, as he spent nearly all of practice working with a trainer in some high-intensity drills. Typically, players get a week or so of on-field work before returning to practice, so don\u2019t be surprised if it\u2019s still another handful of practices before he re-enters the lineup.<\/p>\n
Bartch has yet to get involved in any team drills as Detroit eases him back from a 2025 injury, but on Sunday, he was only on the field briefly to get work with a trainer. Juice Scruggs took most of the first-team reps at left guard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI absolutely see him contributing at some point,\u201d Sheppard said.<\/p>\n
Miller went through walkthroughs and individual drills, but he did not take any full-team reps and was not participating in 1-on-1s. At this point, it isn\u2019t clear if that\u2019s scheduled rest or Detroit being precautionary. Larry Borom and Miles Frazier split time at right tackle with the first-team offense for most of practice.<\/p>\n
The Lions provided official updates on both players after practice, simply saying they were being evaluated for injury after practice. I did not personally witness the injuries nor their exit from the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Detroit Lions taking the field for Day 4 of training camp on Sunday, it was another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[121340,153,7],"class_list":["post-962402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-detroit-lions-injuries","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117027153065236418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962402","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=962402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}