NFL players are already under the proverbial microscope. Everything they do on the field, and off the field, is evaluated. How they practice, how they address the media, how they interact with teammates and fans—it’s all accounted for. And it doesn’t stop just because a player is drafted. You will hear coaches and executives say it all of the time—the evaluation process is constant.
Still, much of that is kept internal. Those intimate moments when a player is being corrected, praised, or even cut, are largely moments we do not get to see. But with HBO’s Hard Knocks set to arrive in Allen Park later this summer, many of these aforementioned moments will no longer be private for the Detroit Lions.