Dan Campbell gives a grim update on Lions' offensive line with Jamarco Jones news
"No".
That was Dan Campbell's response when asked if reserve offensive tackle Jamarco Jones would make a return to the field this year. After being placed on injured reserve before the Detroit Lions' opening game, Jones' eighth season of his career is over before it started.
Jones was dealing with an ankle that appeared to hopefully be healed. With his initial designation, Jones would miss four games with an opportunity to return to the Lions active roster. With Campbell's decision to place him on the IR for the year, the Lions have opted to sign OT Devin Cochran.
Lions lose one OT, gain another as injuries begin to mount (again)
Cochran has spent the past several years with the Cincinnati Bengals since coming into the NFL as a 2022 UDFA. He has appeared in 9 games with one start, logging 152 offensive snaps last year. He is now is with Detroit on their practice squad.
With Jones out for the season, look for the Lions to take advantage of the ability to elevate a practice squad player three times before having to sign them to the active roster. Dan Skipper is an immediate choice to fill Jones' role moving forward.
Jones' roster spot has was filled by running back Jacob Saylors, who contributed on special teams as the team's primary kick returner. Saylors was also elevated to provide some backup at running back with the aggravation of Sione Vaki's groin injury, which landed him out of practice for the entire week leading up to the Lions' Week 1 game against the Green Bay Packers.
Jones is now the eighth Lion on injured reserve this season. In addition to their ever growing "walking wounded", the Lions also roster four players on the physically unable to perform list.
Lions fans will now hold their breath as they await updates on Terrion Arnold (groin), and Daniel Thomas (broken bone in hand) ahead of Week 2.
Packers’ Colby Wooden Fires Back at Critics After Dominant Run Defense Performance
Micah Parsons, a contrarian opinion had taken hold, too–the Packers defense would get chewed up in the running game.Three days before the Packers were to play the Detroit Lions in their 2025 opener, defensive lineman Colby Wooden got a phone call. It was his father. While much attention had been foisted on the Packers in recent days after the stunning trade for pass-rusher
The Packers had to trade away stalwart defensive lineman Kenny Clark to acquire Parsons, and the feeling was, that would be costly in the team’s efforts to handle the run. Detroit, after all, rushed for 2,488 yards last season, sixth in the NFL. Without Clark, surely the Packers would be in trouble.
Wooden, who is helping replace Clark in the middle, took the call from his dad, who said, “Do me a favor, shut ‘em up.”
And he, along with the entire Packers defensive front, did just that, holding the Lions to 46 yards on 22 carries, their lowest rushing output since Week 6 in 2023. Wooden, Devonte Wyatt and Karl Brooks held the line admirably in the middle all day for the Packers.
Colby Wooden: ‘I Took That Personal’
Wooden, for one, was insulted by the questions about the team’s inability to hold against the run.
“I for sure took that personal …” Wooden said. “So I just, did my job, went out there, stopped the run. I took it personal. Honestly, I felt like it was kinda disrespectful, like, ‘Oh, they gonna run the ball.’ So I made it my mission—we, excuse me—we made it our mission to shut them down.”
That’s not easy to do against the combo of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery, nicknamed Sonic and Knuckles.
“We know what they want to do,” Wooden said. “Last year, they wanted to run. They call them Sonic and Knuckles, or whatever. They want to run them 30 times. So we know they want to run that ball. We’ve got to do our job to stop the run so they can get back and let (Parsons) go get them.”
Packers Filling Roles With Micah Parsons on Board
Wooden said the effect of having Parsons on the field was obvious, and it works both ways. When offenses focus on corralling Parsons, the other Packers must step up.
“Everybody’s got a job to do, everybody got a role,” Wooden said. “Everybody’s got to buy into their role. We know what attention and what he comes with. And we know we got to stop that run, go help him out, if he is getting is getting chipped, doubled or whatever, now it’s somebody else’s turn to win their one-on-one.”
Packers Have Commanders Next
And despite the obviously encouraging results, Wooden is not getting ahead of himself. The Commanders will be next on the docket, with fearsome young quarterback Jayden Daniels on hand.
“It’s just one week,” Wooden said. “It’s Week 1. It’s great to start off with a win, dominate. But we’ve got to keep it going. We got a good team coming here on Thursday, we know we got to be ready to stop that run and contain that quarterback. So we just gotta keep going, keep getting better, keep jelling.”
