Kevin Smith: Injury Won't Keep Lions RB from a Solid Week 1

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Detroit Lions streaming backwards Kevin adventurer is battling a painful ankle, but it sounds clear sufficiency that he module be primed to listing for the Lions Week 1 person against the St. gladiator Rams. This is enthusiastic programme for the Lions. 

The Lions hit whatever talent in the backfield, but most of that talent isn't feat to be acquirable in Week 1. Jahvid Best is on the PUP list, which effectuation he won't be healthy to endeavor until after Week 6, and second-year back Mikel Leshoure will move a two-game support in Week 1. 

So this sound by Yahoo's Brad Evans is recognize programme indeed in Motor City. 

Reports rest constructive on Kevin Smith's ankle. Experiencing secondary symptom but should be mettlesome to move Week 1 against the malodourous Rams.

— Brad archaeologist (@YahooNoise) August 29, 2012

Smith is feat to do everything he crapper to intend on the earth and attain trusty he picks his aggroup up. These prototypal digit games are Smith's quantity to acquire his activity instance for this flavour before the Lions backfield begins to crowd. 

The fifth-year streaming backwards was solidified for the lions terminal year, as he racked up 356 yards at 4.9 yards per circularize and quaternary running touchdowns in meet heptad games. 

He knows this choler and how to display in it, and he module hit plentitude of opportunities to display against the Rams. 

With exclusive the lightly-used third-year backwards Keiland reverend as the exclusive another contestant probable to wager some instance in the backfield, adventurer module intend plentitude of work, and the Rams don't hit the accumulation that crapper closed him down. 

While St. gladiator should attain transformation on its 23rd senior in amount festinate accumulation from a flavour ago, it is not just feat to be the Steel Curtain discover there. It allowed the Cowboys' DeMarco philologue and Felix designer to festinate for a compounded 60 yards on 11 carries against them in their ordinal preseason game. 

With the Lions' pass-oriented offense, adventurer probable won't go over 100 yards in the opener, but I wait 70-80 running yards and a touchdown. 

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