ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Detroit Lions tight end Sam LaPorta is being held out of practice with a hip injury and coach Dan Campbell is hopeful the ailment doesn’t linger into the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we\u2019ll be OK, but I don\u2019t know,\u201d Campbell said Thursday.<\/p>\n
LaPorta, coming off season-ending back surgery, was injured earlier in the week.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got hit in the hip and it flared up a little bit,\u201d Campbell said. “It\u2019s a little aggravated, but we feel good long term about him. We\u2019re resting for a little bit here and letting it calm down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Detroit drafted LaPorta in the second round three years ago and he earned Pro Bowl recognition as a rookie with 86 catches for 889 yards and 10 touchdowns.<\/p>\n
His production dropped in each of the past two years, including last season when he was limited to career lows with 40 receptions for 489 yards and three touchdowns in nine games before having back surgery. He has 186 catches for 2,104 yards with 20 touchdowns in his career.<\/p>\n
The Lions have signed several key players to long-term extensions in recent years, including running back Jahmyr Gibbs two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
After they closed last season with a 9-8 record and missed the playoffs, LaPorta said he didn’t expect to have talks about a new deal this offseason.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow are they going to extend me if I can\u2019t play football right now? I\u2019ve got to get healthy,\u201d LaPorta said last January.<\/p>\n
Detroit hosts the Washington Commanders on Saturday in a preseason game.<\/p>\n
See AP\u2019s full NFL coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Detroit Lions tight end Sam LaPorta is being held out of practice with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":978584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[6214,146,113,128498,2506,7,1674,147,6,27878,27876,122564,7472],"class_list":["post-978583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-dan-campbell","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroit-lions-sam-laporta","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-jahmyr-gibbs","tag-lions","tag-nfl","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40792-ap-michigan-sports-only","tag-sam-laporta"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117129558324368262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978583","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=978583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}