The Detroit Lions currently have nine players on injury lists and over the next few weeks, many of those players will become eligible to be activated from their injury designations.
Here’s an overview of those injured players and when they are eligible to return:
- QB Hendon Hooker (ACL): NFI — eligible to return in Week 5
- QB Nate Sudfeld (ACL): IR — season-ending
- TE Shane Zylstra (knee): IR — season-ending
- OT Matt Nelson (ankle): IR — eligible to return in Week 8
- EDGE Julian Okwara (undisclosed): IR — eligible to return in Week 5
- EDGE Josh Paschal (knee): IR — eligible to return in Week 6
- EDGE James Houston (fibula): IR — eligible to return in Week 7
- CB Khalil Dorsey (illness): IR — eligible to return in Week 6
- DB C.