The next 30 hours or so will be agonizing for the Detroit Lions, their players, and the personnel staff. After only a few weeks of practice, the team will have to make some impossibly tough decisions on who gets to play football in Honolulu Blue this year and who doesn’t.
The coaching staff has already said that they’ll likely cut a player that they may have kept had this been a normal year, had these players had a chance to prove themselves in minicamp, OTAs, and the preseason. But with none of those opportunities, the Lions—just like every other team in the NFL—is working off a shortened scouting report.