ALLEN PARK, Mich. – Organized team activities are often an odd time for NFL franchises. They start implementing what they hope to use for the 2016 season and start the learning process they believe will lead to wins in the fall.
Yet it is tough to have a true gauge because so many players end up missing all or parts of voluntary OTA practices for a multitude of reasons ranging from personal reasons to being held out due to recovery from injury.
That was obvious Thursday with the Detroit Lions, where a plethora of likely fall contributors weren’t on the field at all.