Lions lose starters Davis, Ragnow to accidents
DETROIT — A pair of Detroit Lions starters left the crew’s preseason recreation Friday evening with accidents.
Beginning center linebacker Jarrad Davis was carted to the locker room with a proper foot harm through the first drive, earlier than middle Frank Ragnow was helped off the sphere within the second quarter with a proper leg harm.
Davis is scheduled to endure an MRI on the foot Saturday, a supply advised ESPN. He appeared to undergo the harm on the finish of a 9-yard run by Buffalo Payments again LeSean McCoy when Lions teammate Devon Kennard appeared to roll up on Davis’ leg. The run was known as again for holding.
Davis fell to the bottom clutching his proper leg; he tried to rise up and get to the sideline on his personal however could not put any stress on the leg.
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After docs and athletic trainers examined Davis, taking his proper shoe off within the course of, they known as for the cart to take him to the locker room. Davis, 24, wanted help to achieve the cart, and a number of Detroit defensive gamers went over to talk with him earlier than he left the sphere.
“Simply ensuring that he is aware of we’re there for him,” linebacker Devon Kennard mentioned. “That is just like the chief of our protection and the center and soul of the protection to an extent, and simply so he is aware of we have his again and we assist him and praying that he is OK, regardless of the harm is. I simply let him know that I used to be praying for him and I hope that he is again quickly.”
Davis, the crew’s first-round decide in 2017, has been Detroit’s center linebacker the previous two seasons and was anticipated to carry down that function once more in 2019. Whereas the Lions haven’t but named crew captains for 2019, Davis was a captain final season.
He has began all 30 video games he has performed for Detroit, making 196 tackles with eight sacks, eight passes defended and two fumble recoveries. With the Lions releasing security Glover Quin within the offseason, Davis was typically regarded to as the principle communicator and coronary heart of the crew’s protection this fall.
With Davis out, a mixture of rookie Jahlani Tavai and veteran Jalen Reeves-Maybin took his place within the lineup.
Halfway by means of the second quarter, Ragnow, 23, injured his proper leg and was examined on the turf for a couple of minutes earlier than being helped off the sphere. He initially couldn’t put weight on his proper leg earlier than making an attempt to gingerly take a look at it as he went on to the locker room for extra testing.
Ragnow, the crew’s first-round decide final yr, is anticipated to be the crew’s beginning middle in 2019. If his harm have been to be critical, the Lions would probably shift the crew’s middle final season, Graham Glasgow, again to the place from proper guard.
It might be a giant blow to Detroit, although, as a result of the inside of the offensive line is the one space on the offense the place beginning positions have not been settled.