Detroit Lions rule out 5 players for final game, including Penei Sewell

ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions are limping into nan last crippled of their disappointing season, ruling 5 players retired and different 5 arsenic questionable.

Detroit will beryllium without correct tackle Penei Sewell (ankle), linebacker Alex Anzalone (concussion/personal), information Thomas Harper (concussion), protect lineman Alim McNeill (abdomen) and interior violative lineman Trystan Colon (wrist) against nan Chicago Bears.

Sewell did not believe astatine each this week aft suffering an ankle wounded against nan Minnesota Vikings successful Week 17. Dan Campbell held retired dream Sewell would beryllium capable to go. But nan All-Pro tackle will decorativeness nan play pinch conscionable nan 2nd crippled missed of his five-year career.

“But arsenic acold arsenic does it impact you not having him? Yeah, it does,” Campbell said of Sewell. “I mean, he’s a phenomenal player. He’s a phenomenal shot player.

“Yet, we’ve sewage guys who are going to measurement successful and do a bully occupation for us. They’ve sewage a occupation to do, they’ll person a role, and we expect them to clasp up their extremity of nan bargain.”

Giovanni Manu is 1 of those 5 questionable players. But Campbell said he doesn’t position him arsenic an action to capable Sewell’s spot to extremity nan season. The 2 apt options are Dan Skipper aliases Miles Frazier to capable Sewell’s domiciled successful nan finale. Colon will extremity his first twelvemonth pinch nan Lions by missing 3 consecutive games.

Anzalone and Harper some suffered concussions successful past week’s crippled successful Minnesota. Harper has been successful concussion protocol doubly this month, truthful it’s nary astonishment to spot him inactive for nan last matchup.

McNeill was constricted to only 14 protect snaps owed to his abdominal wounded connected Christmas. And he didn’t believe this week, truthful rookie Tyleik Williams should spot an accrued domiciled connected nan protect line.

Other than Manu, nan questionable players entering nan play are receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown (ankle/knee), violative guards Kayode Awosika (illness) and Christian Mahogany (illness) and near tackle Taylor Decker (shoulder/illness/rest).

St. Brown and Decker person each said they scheme connected playing to extremity nan season. Campbell has reiterated nan aforesaid passim nan week of preparation. Decker knows he has immoderate reliable decisions to make regarding his early playing profession this offseason.

But he’s focused connected nan last chance of nan play to play pinch his teammates and for this franchise. Those decisions will beryllium made once nan affectional toll of nan twelvemonth and his lingering enarthrosis injuries aren’t truthful fresh.

The Bears person ruled retired protect lineman Joe Tryon-Shoyinka (concussion), and listed information Jaquan Brisker (illness), protect backmost Nick McCloud (illness), receiver Rome Odunze (foot) and violative lineman Ozzy Trapilo (knee/quad) arsenic questionable.

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