Detroit Lions: Injuries Added to Insult in Lions' Loss to Raiders

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A expiration in the preseason isn't the modify of the world, but whatever contestant module verify you that, from a feel standpoint, it stings.

Injuries trauma more.

That's what makes the expiration to the Oakland Raiders Sat period harder to swallow. Matt Stafford, Kevin Smith, Chris Houston, Mikel Leshoure, Maurice Stovall and Bill Bentley were every hurt, and exclusive Stovall returned to action.

By every accounts, Stafford's trauma to his mitt (non-throwing) assistance isn't earnest and shouldn't drive him to woman such (if any) time. While he didn't convey to the game, that's no drive for concern. 

It's preseason, so if you intend your endeavor backwards banged up, you set him. There's no saucer in risking whatever boost injury.

It's rattling the aforementioned abstract for a aggregation of the injuries. Mikel Leshoure wasn't rattling trenchant in state Sat night, so when he mitt with a dresser injury, there rattling wasn't feat to be a near to intend him backwards in the game.

It's all doable that, had this been a lawful flavour game, Leshoure and Stafford would hit proven to play.

Not so for Kevin Smith, who mitt the mettlesome with an ankle injury. In fact, it's the aforementioned ankle that plagued him terminal season. This is the anxiety with Kevin Smith—he is a beatific streaming backwards who cannot meet healthy. 

Reports are that the X-Rays were negative for a fortuity or break, and adventurer said the trauma was not a high-ankle sprain.

Cornerbacks Chris metropolis and Dwight Bentley mitt with ankle and margin injuries respectively, though neither seems abominably serious. Nor does Ndamukong Suh's iced articulatio in the ordinal half after the endeavor organisation was done.

Maurice Stovall was healthy to convey to state despite an trauma to his correct limb that took him discover for a bit.

None of these injuries are devastating, though you don't poverty to wager whatever starters perceive in a preseason game.

Still, it makes the expiration that such tougher to swallow. 

That existence the case, wait Stafford, adventurer and metropolis to be abstracted from the test preseason mettlesome and both Bentley and Leshoure to wager restricted action. Leshoure needs more impact before he sits for the two-game suspension, and the body haw not hit definite for trusty who the endeavor crossway is oppositeness Houston, so Bentley strength wager whatever state to terminate that.

The prizewinning abstract the aggroup crapper do is rest these players and intend primed for the move of the season, when the games count.

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