From a viewing standpoint, mandatory minicamp isn’t all that different from organized team activities. The practices have the same restrictions—mainly, no pads—and the structure of the sessions are nearly identical. The only real difference from a practice standpoint is they can be 30 minutes longer, and it’s the first stretch of three straight practices in 2019 for the Detroit Lions.
There is one more week of OTAs remaining for the Lions, but here’s what we learned from the three-day mandatory minicamp stretch last week.
Though the coaches haven’t straight up admitted it, last week was all the evidence you need to know that the Lions are planning on Ragnow being the starting center in 2019.