For Penei Sewell, the Detroit Lions’ first padded practice of training camp Tuesday was “like when you’re out in the desert and you take that first sip of water.”
“To be out there again, to strap it on, to put the helmet back on again, it’s a feeling that I forgot about,” Sewell said. “It’s something that I’ve been craving for a minute that I didn’t know I was craving.”
Sewell had not played football in pads in more than a year, since Oregon held its last of four spring practices before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of sports last March.