On Wednesday, the Detroit Lions took a step back in their training camp regiment. After two spirited padded practices, the Lions went just over an hour in what was basically just an extended walkthrough.
But on Thursday, they kicked the intensity right back up with the longest practice in camp to date. The pads came back on, and the practice nearly went 2.5 hours. In fact, they had to cut the final drill short, because they were running up against the maximum amount of time allotted for each practice by the NFLPA (150 minutes).
Dan Campbell got the juices going early, starting practice with yet another one-on-one tackling drill, then following those up with competitive one-on-ones with RB/TE vs.