The Lions lost to the Colts on Sunday, and they picked up a couple of significant injuries while doing so. Defensive end Trey Flowers is going on injured reserve and as such will miss at least the next three games, the team announced Monday.
Meanwhile star receiver Kenny Golladay picked up a hip injury that will sideline him this week and have him week to week moving forward, sources told Ian Rapoport of NFL Network (Twitter link). Rapoport noted in a follow-up tweet that IR is a possibility for him as well. The team views Flowers’ stint as a short-term one, Tim Twentyman of the team’s official site tweets.
It sounds like he’ll be back before too long, but it’s still a big blow. Signed to a five-year, $90MM pact last March, Flowers is the anchor of Detroit’s already underwhelming pass-rush. The former Patriot has two sacks and two forced fumbles through seven games this year. Fortunately the team just traded for Everson Griffen, and now they’ll really need him.
Golladay of course is the team’s top receiver, and this is a big setback for the offense. Golladay missed the first couple of games of the season with a hamstring issue, but had at least 105 yards in back to back games before going down against the Colts. Hopefully both will be back on the field as soon as possible.
Flowers has looked like anything but the $90MM man my pathetic Leos made him out to be
You build a team through the draft and the Lions haven’t drafted well on Defense during Quinn’s tenure. He’s had chances to draft a top tier DE multiple times but took a TE , CB had 2nd rounders too but took a bust CB, an average LB, a now third string RB.
Please, tell me you made a clerical error, I know trade rumor writers are busy, it’s perfectly fine to have the odd spelling error- I know you chaps don’t have a support network. You are responsible for conducting your own content research, writing and editing your own work with unforgiving and at times unreasonable deadlines. Most people think you work in a bustling office like the one in Chevy Chase’s best movie- Fletch, but I know the truth. You’re a one man band equipped with knee cymbals and a harmonica on top of your bass drum.
Please tell me Seattle CB Tre Flowers has been placed on the IR. Please tell me you have mistakenly added a “Y.” Ever since the 2019 prime time matchup with MN ended he has been absolutely Barry White, …..shite! He has suddenly lost the ability to play one-on-one, his cleats seem to have an invisible magnetic force that will not allow him to get closer than 3 ft to a WR. Me thinks he had surgery to prevent his neck moving more than 5* to the left or right seeing he has never once turned his head towards the ball since that INT in the said MN game. Please tell me he went on the IR to have corrective neck surgery. Please tell me he went away to learn the CB position. Thank you, yours truly, a concerned 12.