After a whirlwind off-season last spring and an injury-riddled first year in Detroit, Haloti Ngata is finally settling in to being a Lion.
Traded from the Baltimore Ravens amid a contract dispute last March, Ngata missed much of the off-season program with the Lions to be with his family in Maryland.
When he finally showed up for training camp in July, he did so with a strained hamstring that kept him off the field for most of the preseason and contributed to a September calf injury that cost him two regular-season games.
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Ngata eventually moved his family to Michigan, and when he got healthy, he was one of the Lions’ best defensive players in the second half of last season.