The Detroit Lions have made a trio of roster moves in response to a few injuries. First, reserve cornerback Khalil Dorsey has been placed on injured reserve after suffering a wrist injury last week while working his way through concussion protocol. He will be forced to miss the next four games at a minimum, although coach Dan Campbell said on Monday that the special teamer would miss “a while” with his injury.
Taking his spot on the 53-man roster is veteran offensive tackle Dan Skipper, who has been on the team’s practice squad since the start of the season. Skipper has previously been the team’s backup swing tackle, but was initially beat out by Jamarco Jones and Giovanni Manu. With Jones out for the year and Manu’s up-and-down NFL debut last week against the Cincinnati Bengals, Skipper—who was battling a knee injury of his own—appears to now be in the mix for the Lions’ left tackle job. It’s unclear if starter Taylor Decker will miss more time with a shoulder injury the team is trying to manage.
“We’re going to look at everything here,” Campbell said of the left tackle position on Sunday. “Certainly, Skip’s back, so we’ll look at Skip. We brought Devin Cochran today (from the practice squad). He’s a candidate. And then we’ll see where Decker’s at, obviously. That’s always going to be our first choice to see where Decker is, but I don’t want to put Decker out there if it means that we get a couple of games and we don’t have him for the rest of the year. It makes no sense. So we’ll play this smart.”
Detroit also confirmed the earlier report that they’ve signed nickel cornerback Arthur Maulet to the practice squad.
It’s certainly notable that Terrion Arnold was not placed on injured reserve. However, Campbell noted on Wednesday that while the second opinion on Arnold’s shoulder injury was promising, they are not ruling out a long-term injury quite yet.
“There’s a second opinion that came in, and so now it’s, ‘okay, let’s see if we can strengthen it a little bit, get a little bit of inflammation out.’ I don’t know how long that’s going to be, though. I still may kinda go back to ‘he may be out a while,’” Campbell said. “But, yeah, the second opinion came back, and it sounds like it could be promising, but that’s no guarantee, either. So we’re kinda in this wait-and-see, and we’ll hold off here a little bit and see where he goes.”
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