When Detroit Lions left tackle Taylor Decker got rolled up on, early in the second quarter of the team’s season opener in Kansas City, he knew it was a serious injury. The injury—a high ankle sprain combined with a bone bruise—was an especially painful one, but not one that was going to sideline him in the middle of the team’s nationally televised debut.
“At that point, it’s like, ‘I’m already here. I’m going to help my team win. Hey Jonah (Jackson), I might need you to help me a little bit here and there. I’m hobbling around a little bit,’” Decker recalled to the media on Monday.