Notes: Tracy Walker vows to be better in 2021

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty ImagesNot too long ago, the Detroit Lions appeared to have a pair of promising young players at safety in Will Harris and Tracy Walker to build the unit around. Add in veterans Duron Harmon and Jayron Kearse to fill it out with experience and maybe a special teamer like C.J. Moore and the team had a serviceable unit with some depth questions but clear starters to enter the 2020 season. So comfortable was the team with its choices that it let play-everywhere utility man Tavon Wilson leave in free agency for Indianapolis. On the dawn of a new year, we now know how mistaken our perception of the situation at safety was.

In just the first month of actual games,…