{"id":989377,"date":"2026-09-01T21:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/989377\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:36:34","slug":"detroit-lions-place-rb-isiah-pacheco-on-ir-add-wr-to-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/989377\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions place RB Isiah Pacheco on IR, add WR to practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Lions announced another wave of moves as they attempt to finalize their roster ahead of their Week 1 game against the New Orleans Saints. Most notably, the Lions placed running back Isiah Pacheco on injured reserve. To fill his roster spot, the Lions have re-signed tight end Tyler Conklin (as previously reported)<\/a>. Detroit also signed Dominic Lovett to fill their final spot on the practice squad.<\/p>\n

Pacheco suffered a knee injury during training camp, but during the final week of practices, coach Dan Campbell revealed that the knee injury was no longer a concern. Rather, the veteran running back was dealing with a back injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a little touch and go right now,\u201d Campbell said on Thursday. \u201cHe\u2019s had a little bit of a back (injury) and we\u2019re hoping he\u2019s coming out of this as of yesterday a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pacheco is now ineligible to play or practice for the team\u2019s first four games of the season. Detroit has four other running backs on their roster to help them weather that storm: Jahmyr Gibbs, Sione Vaki, Jacob Saylors, and Jabari Small.<\/p>\n

Lovett, the Lions\u2019 seventh-round pick in 2025, fills Detroit\u2019s final spot in their 16-man practice squad. He is the third receiver on the Lions\u2019 practice squad, joining Lucky Jackson and Tom Kennedy. Detroit made the surprise decision to roster just four receivers on their 53-man roster: Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, Isaac TeSlaa, and Tay Martin. Former Lions receiver Greg Dortch was released and signed to the Bills\u2019 practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions announced another wave of moves as they attempt to finalize their roster ahead of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":989378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,2705,7,6],"class_list":["post-989377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroit-lions-transactions","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117197942535846132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989377","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=989377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}