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Detroit Lions place Julian Okwara on injured reserve; Austin Bryant returns to practice

The Detroit Lions will be without one of their top draft picks indefinitely.

The Lions placed third-round pick Julian Okwara on injured reserve Tuesday, two days after he had to be helped off the field with a right leg injury.

Lions coach Matt Patricia declined to put a timetable on Okwara's return or say whether his injury could be season-ending.

"We’ll just kind of take it as it comes," Patricia said. "It’ll be a couple weeks here, but we’ll see what it looks like."

Okwara broke his left fibula last November and missed the end of his senior season at Notre Dame.