Episode #162: 53-man roster established
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss the team’s 53-man roster, 16-man practice squad, players on injured reserve, on the PUP list, and the one suspended player, breaking down the entire roster position-by-position. Plus, Erik and Joe take a look ahead at Week 1 when the Lions face off with division rival Chicago Bears and make their predictions.
Here’s a closer look at what’s on this week’s agenda:
- Lions Initial 53-man roster
- Lions 16-man practice squad
- A detailed look at how the practice squad rules have changed
- Erik’s Depth Chart heading into Week 1
- RB Adrian Peterson signing, and why it makes sense for both sides
- Patricia claiming they signed Peterson based on him as a player only
- Barry Sanders welcomed Peterson to the Lions on social media
- OL Oday Aboushi also re-signed after …
- Bo Scarbrough and Mike Ford were moved to Injured Reserve
- Eagles claimed Lions 5th rd pick Jason Huntley
- Previewing the Lions hosting the Bears in Week 1
- Bears name QB Mitchell Trubisky starter after rough preseason in Chicago
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Joe Kenya with me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire, |
| 0:08.9 | and our Detroit Magazine's tied for number two most beloved sports columnist blogger. |
| 0:14.7 | Did you receive anything in the mail yet? |
| 0:17.2 | Do they even send anything? |
| 0:18.7 | You should get like a little statuette or a certificate of, you know, |
| 0:22.7 | appreciation or something? No, I didn't even know I had, I didn't even know I was recognized |
| 0:29.0 | until someone else told me. So yeah, it was a big surprise. No, no indication. They just |
| 0:36.9 | published it and the way they went. |
| 0:39.2 | There should be more fanfare. But that's not why anybody's listening today. As you well know, |
| 0:47.1 | Eric, on this Sunday at Ford Field, the Chicago Bears will be visiting our Lions. |
| 0:56.8 | They open up the regular season. |
| 1:02.2 | And it'll be the first time we see the Lions really play in any fashion other than the snippets we've seen from training camp. |
| 1:04.0 | So we'll go over the 53-man roster. |
| 1:07.1 | There's a couple of little surprises. |
| 1:09.1 | And then the Lions also made one big sudden movement |
| 1:12.0 | yesterday that got everybody a buzz. Yeah, I think another personnel move. I think we should |
| 1:18.4 | expand our talk beyond just the 53. I think we should include the practice squad players |
| 1:24.8 | because of the new, yeah, because of the new practice |
| 1:27.7 | squad rule. So in case you're unfamiliar with the changes in the practice squad rules, |
| 1:32.5 | or you just need some clarification, here's how it works. You have 53 players on your roster, |
| 1:40.1 | and then 16 players on the practice squad. But because of the COVID implications, the NFL and |
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