ALLEN PARK -- T.J. Lang spent eight years with the Packers, the team that drafted him. He blocked for Aaron Rodgers for all of that time and even won a Super Bowl doing it.
And so when a brain injury kept him off the field all week leading up to the game, the veteran right guard was still able to work in the Lions facility and contribute to the game plan against his former team.
"I try to talk to him about some of the personnel things that he knows," offensive line coach Jeff Davidson said. "That's the only thing I had to do as far as commenting on T.