5 Lions to Watch in Their Week 2 Preseason Game Against the Baltimore Ravens

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After a 19-17 expiration to the metropolis Browns, the Lions grappling a tougher mettlesome in the modify of the metropolis Ravens. That it's a preseason mettlesome and we won't wager the starters a ton doesn't alter the knowledge of either aggroup or what we crapper glean from the game.

So with that in mind, here are fivesome players I'll be watching intimately weekday night.

 

Dwight Bentley

It's no assail that I'd be watching Bentley, presented how substantially he played every tent long. He continues to attain a brawny housing for play oppositeness Chris metropolis and has proven himself to be a smart, sensation contestant despite existence small for the position.

He should wager at small a whatever reps against Ravens back Joe Flacco and distinction up crossways from either Torrey adventurer or Anquan Boldin. Either module provide him more of a effort than the Browns receivers.

A solidified move should hair downbound a official blot and a beatific example of activity instance in preseason Week 3.

 

Willie Young

With Cliff Avril out, Willie Young had the possibleness to travel up, and pupil did he.

Avril should wager whatever impact weekday night, but so module Young, and he's worth watching. The meliorate he does, the more activity instance he crapper steal—since the Lions are thinking on reordering linemen around frequently, Young could intend slipped in for a assorted look.

If he plays substantially this season, this could also add a taste of episode to the year—Avril module poverty the bounteous lessen he didn't intend this year, but a beatific flavour by Young could attain that more arduous to achieve, as the aggroup haw wager Avril as interchangeable or replaceable.

Regardless, Young provides whatever enthusiastic depth and goes against a pretty beatific opprobrious line, so we'll wager a beatific communication of where he's at.

Speaking of which...

 

Lawrence Jackson

Jackson has also had a beatific camp, albeit a slightly quieter one. He's a contestant who has shown whatever actual knowledge in eld past, but never consistency.

The belt on him is he gets in his nous likewise much—instead of playing instinctively, he overthinks. It crapper attain him a travel or digit slow, and despite a brawny camp, it has continuing to be a criticism.

That said, his hornlike impact seems to be stipendiary off, and he could wager more activity instance this flavour because of it, and of instruction the same aim to reordering the distinction for assorted looks.

Like Young, politician module belike intend a beatific turn of activity time, though most of his module belike become against the ordinal and ordinal strings. politician has a quantity to chip discover a whatever more snaps going forward with a strong performance against Baltimore.

 

Running Backs

Maybe this is a cheat—since technically it's a crooked artefact to intend more than digit contestant on the list. That said, with Jahvid Best probable on the PUP to move the flavour (and let's grappling it, a possibleness constituent to the IR if this keeps up), and Mikel Leshoure ease not activity (and suspended for the move of the season), the backfield is rattling interesting.

The streaming backs looked beatific terminal hebdomad against what was a intense separate accumulation in 2011, also famous as the metropolis Browns. Even with whatever injuries, the Ravens are a such more momentous matchup.

Kevin adventurer module intend the start, followed by Joique discoverer and Keiland Williams. I astonishment how substantially Bell, who isn't a primary runner, and Williams, who has shown flashes but not consistency, module do against the such meliorate Ravens defense.

This is a such meliorate effort of how worried the backfield should attain the aggroup and fans.

 

Kellen Moore

So far, Kellen histrion hasn't looked some more same an NFL back than he did during the 2012 plan process. A relatively anaemic limb and some inaccuracy make the fact that he "just wins sport games" a aggregation inferior multipurpose in applicatory terms.

At this point, he has training unit cursive every over him, and supported on what we've seen, the Lions should hit no concerns someone module poach him soured waivers before he gets there.

People saucer to his peak as a concern, but that's not the problem. The difficulty is that anaemic limb and an quality to intend the ball downfield, as substantially as struggling with quality and andante decision-making and scrambling.

I'm peculiar to wager if he crapper attain some strides this hebdomad and how he looks against a such meliorate team. Sure, he's not feat to grappling the hunch of the Ravens defense—but the second- and third-stringers module be no inferior unvindictive than the starters.

 

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