ALLEN PARK -- DeAndre Levy missed 11 games with a knee injury before Detroit Lions doctors cleared him for a return last season.
Now he says maybe he shouldn't have returned at all.
"Turns out there was a little more damage than I was being told," Levy told ESPN, "and there's no way I should've been back on the field last year."
Levy suffered the injury -- a meniscus issue in his right knee -- during Detroit's season-opening win against Indianapolis. It was a frustrating setback for a linebacker who had played just 17 snaps the year before because of a hip injury, and then missed most of training camp with an undisclosed injury he suffered away from the team.