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Detroit Lions' Eli Harold happy Eric Reid is signed, back in the NFL

Free Press sports writer Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez dissect and predict Week 4's Detroit Lions vs. Dallas Cowboys game. Recorded Sept. 27, 2018. Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press

Eli Harold was as happy as anyone to hear the news this week that his good friend and former teammate with the San Francisco 49ers, Eric Reid, was back in the NFL.

"I’m excited," Harold said Friday. "I’m excited. He got the chance he deserves. He’s a heck of a ball player. Should have never been in this situation."

Reid, who signed with the Carolina Panthers on Thursday, spent most of the past seven months out of football, a pariah to some NFL teams as one of the faces of player protests across the league.