(08-24-2021, 10:13 PM)D6 Wrote:

(08-24-2021, 08:34 PM)Bullseye Wrote: From CBSSports...

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-r...ce-gets-c/

FWIW, Trevor Lawrence got a C+, but more due to what is/isn't around him.

D6, do you agree with the D given to penei Sewell?

I saw he gave up the sack against Rousseau (who got an A-).  Are you dissatisfied with him thus far, or are you more patient?

Why?

Bullseye, the grade probably is a little lower than I thought it would be. I would have thought a C-. 

In the pre-season game vs. Buffalo, Penei Sewell got off to a slow start on the Lions first set of downs. Including, the play you mentioned. On the next drive, which went 18 plays before the Lions settled for a FG, Sewell rebounded with 1st Round caliber run and pass blocking.  The entire starting Offensive Line was taken out of the game after that.

In Pittsburgh, Penei Sewell struggled run and pass blocking. The transition for Sewell back to RT, the position he played in High School,  probably has contributed to inconsistency both in practice and in the pre-season.

I'm encouraged overall about how the Lions 2021 Draft crop is progressing.  But one of the best Lions stories this summer is CB A.J. Parker, an UDRFA from Kansas St., is on the verge of being the Lions starting Nickel CB.  

The most improbable Lions positive story this month is regarding RB Gerald Reynolds, who played briefly in a couple of games with the Jaguars last season, in-between Practice Squad stints.  The Jags released him in March.  Reynolds was signed a day before the first Lions pre-season game.  In the two pre-season games, he's performed on the level of at least a # 2 RB.  Including, looking natural as a receiver.  Granted, he's only played in the 4th QTR of both games.  But with D' Andre Swift's status for the regular season opener iffy at best, Reynolds has a realistic shot of being on the Lions opening day 53 man roster

There was a guy who did a breakdown on Sewell on youtube.

Sewell, like Little, sat out last year due to Covid.  The guy doing the breakdown identified bad hand placement as a problem and attributed it possibly due to him sitting out last year due to  the Covid.  People have said similar things about Walker Little.

If this is true, I wonder how long it will take both players to get over the rust sitting out last year created in their games.

Who do you think is on the Detroit bubble?  Any starters or key contributors from last year?

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