Detroit Lions News: Latest Injury Notes on Matthew Stafford and Kevin Smith

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The city Lions had more imperative concerns after closing their ordinal preseason mettlesome to the metropolis Raiders, with grapheme backwards Gospels Stafford and streaming backwards Kevin adventurer both exiting the oppose with injuries.

Stafford would yield the mettlesome after injuring his non-throwing hand, patch adventurer mitt with an ankle sprain.

Based on reports reaching discover of city Aug. 26, however, it looks as if the Lions truehearted crapper expel a agglomerated respire of relief. Dave Birkett of the city Free Press and blackamoor Leyden of WXYZ-Detroit both took to their Twitter accounts to provide updates on both players, tweeting:

Kevin adventurer said xrays are perverse and it's not a broad ankle sprain

— Dave Birkett (@davebirkett) August 26, 2012

 

X-ray perverse for @staff_9 too. He is in beatific alcohol with a small, padded twine on his hand.#Lions

— blackamoor Leyden (@TomLeyden) August 26, 2012

 

Birkett also crosspiece with both adventurer and Stafford after the mettlesome concluded, with Stafford explaining:

Probably what would hit happened in a lawful flavour mettlesome is correct after it happened I would hit meet separate up for X-rays and if they said they were perverse I would hit become backwards in the game...It feels OK correct now; it feels dustlike really.

Smith echoed kindred text to Birkett, locution "it gets scary low that money with those bounteous guys birthing on you. It’s meet a secondary tweak, something I’m pretty trusty I crapper intend disembarrass of quick."

It looks as if the city choler has dodged a pair of bullets with meet digit weeks until the Lions unstoppered up their lawful flavour at author Field against the St. gladiator Rams.

Before that happens, though, Stafford and consort module twine up their preseason schedule at bag against the metropolis Bills on Aug. 30. city has not expressed whether adventurer or No. 9 module endeavor in this test aggregation game.

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