Detroit Lions' Week 2 Wednesday Injury Report

The Detroit Lions are facing an early dilemma in their secondary.

Already dealing with a rash of hamstring injuries prior to the start of the season, two more starters were injured during the opening game of the 2020 season.

Veterans Justin Coleman and Desmond Trufant both missed snaps due to suffering injuries against the Bears.

Coleman was placed on injured reserve, while Trufant has an opportunity to play this Sunday after it was reported that he dodged suffering a major hamstring injury.

Due to the rash of injuries, cornerback Chris Jones was signed to the active 53-man roster on Wednesday to aid head coach Matt Patricia's defense.

When asked about dealing with the numerous injuries in the secondary, Patricia explained Wednesday, "I think the big thing for that is --we’ve talked about this before -- we try to cross-train a lot of guys on our team and certainly in the secondary. Obviously with corners and safeties, we know that there’s going to be some cross-training packages that we can have with that and have those positions backed up.

He added, "We obviously have other players on our team that if there’s an emergency situation, we can move over to there, and we use our practice squad depth, and then we identify a guy like Chris Jones who was with us before a couple years ago that we know, that we liked, and we weren’t able to hold onto at that time that we were able to bring back. We just go forward from there."

Detroit Lions' Wednesday Injury Report

TE Hunter Bryant - Hamstring (NP)

CB Desmond Trufant - Hamstring (NP)

WR Kenny Golladay - Hamstring (NP)

RT Halapoulivaati Vaitai - Foot (NP)

CB Darryl Roberts - Calf (NP)

FB Jason Cabinda - Ankle (LP)

CB Darryl Roberts - Groin (LP)

DT Nick Williams - Shoulder (LP)

CB Jeff Okudah - Hamstring (FP)

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