After suffering a rash of injuries in their secondary against the Cleveland Browns, the Detroit Lions are reportedly signing some help at cornerback. According to league sources, Tre Flowers, formerly a fifth-round draft pick by the Seattle Seahawks in 2018 and most recently a member of the Chicago Bears practice squad, is joining the Lions practice squad, per Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 Houston.<\/p>\n
Flowers arrives in Detroit after Dan Campbell\u2019s Monday afternoon press conference revealed the Lions were going to be without at least one starting cornerback for this upcoming game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 5.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to be down for a while, but the good news is it\u2019s not a season-ender. We will get him back, it looks like,\u201d Campbell said about the status of D.J. Reed, the Lions\u2019 big signing of this past free agency class.<\/p>\n
Campbell acknowledged that there\u2019s a possibility Reed could make his way to injured reserve, meaning he\u2019d miss at least the next four games. Since Flowers is signing to the practice squad, this move doesn\u2019t provide any further clarity into the duration of Reed\u2019s impending absence.<\/p>\n
Reed\u2019s injury puts the Lions down one cornerback, but Terrion Arnold, the outside corner opposite Reed, is also at risk of missing this week\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think this is a huge thing, but the question is: Is he going to be ready for this week?\u201d Campbell said about Arnold\u2019s status for next Sunday. \u201cThat would be really the question. And if it\u2019s not this week, he should be back by next week for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
In any case, adding Flowers gives the Lions a cornerback with a ton of experience and size. He\u2019s appeared in 95 games (44 starts), lining up at outside corner for over 82% of his total defensive snaps (3,493). And at 6-foot-3, 200 pounds, Flowers established himself as a presence in run defense, earning PFF run-defense grades of 80 or higher three times in his seven-year career. Flowers has recorded four interceptions, 22 passes defended, five forced fumbles, 2.0 sacks, and 287 tackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After suffering a rash of injuries in their secondary against the Cleveland Browns, the Detroit Lions are reportedly…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[27705,9328,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-268678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-detroit-lions-news","9":"tag-detroit-lions-roster","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}