ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions are getting back two huge pieces for their final practice before traveling across Lake Erie to face the Cleveland Browns on Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium.
Quarterback Jared Goff and left tackle Taylor Decker are both expected to suit up on Friday afternoon. Goff hasn’t practiced all week while dealing with an oblique strain, while Decker missed Thursday’s practice after suffering an elbow injury.
Goff suffered his injury while trying to connect with Kalif Raymond on a deep ball last weekend in Pittsburgh. He underthrew the pass so badly that Raymond had to pull up and the ball was broken up, and then to add injury to insult, Goff got popped on the play. He injured his oblique badly enough that the coaching staff had conversations about whether to replace him with David Blough, but ultimately decided to stick with him, to horrendous results.
He passed for minus-1 yards in the first quarter and just 54 yards through four quarters, the worst regulation performance by a Lions quarterback since Joey Harrington in 2004. The Lions didn’t score on any of their final seven possessions while battling Pittsburgh to a 16-all tie.
Then Goff woke up even more sore on Monday, and the Lions elected to rest him in an effort to ease the pain.
“There’s pain management to it, and then some of it will just be if we can get it to calm down a little bit to where it’s more manageable, and he feels like he can step into the throw and really put a lot of zing on it,” head coach Dan Campbell said this week.
After a couple days of rest, Goff told coaches he’s feeling better and is ready to try throwing at practice on Friday. The Lions will evaluate his pain and performance before deciding how to allocate first-team reps in practice. Tim Boyle has taken the first-team reps throughout the week and is expected to earn the start if Goff can’t go, while David Blough has mixed in as well.
“Goff will throw today just to see where he’s at,” Campbell said. “But until we know more, we’re planning on Boyle and then certainly Blough. ... It’s tough to say (how close he is). There again, he sat for two days, so we’ll know a lot more today. He said he felt better today, so we’ll see what it looks like and if we can get him out there moving around a little bit.”
The good news is Decker, who already missed eight games with a finger injury, seems to have averted another major injury. He banged his elbow on Wednesday and missed Thursday’s practice out of an abundance of caution. In the end, the injury is so minor that Decker is expected to return to practice on Friday and is expected to play in Cleveland.
“I think he’s good,” Campbell said. “I think it was not as bad as we thought it could be. I think we’re fine. I think he’s going to be good to go. Look, he’s tough, man, so he’s going to handle this well. We got it checked out and he should be good.”
The Lions also got back reserve offensive tackle Matt Nelson on Thursday, although he remained limited by an ankle/knee injury. To help bolster their numbers at the position, Detroit re-added offensive tackle Dan Skipper to the practice squad on Friday.
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