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MLive's Detroit Lions awards: Joique Bell's brutal start earns RB biggest disappointment

Editor's note: This is the sixth and final installment of our series in which MLive's Detroit Lions beat writers will hand out our admittedly pointless but hopefully entertaining postseason awards. Hopefully. Today: Biggest disappointment.

Biggest disappointment
Winner: Joique Bell
Honorable mention: Travis Swanson, Stephen Tulloch
Why Bell: The veteran running back spent most of the offseason recovering from multiple offseason surgeries. The training staff's hope was Bell would hit the ground running, with fresh legs, to start the regular season. Instead, he was temporarily shut down after three games where he averaged a brutal 1.