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Through teaching, Lions safety Miles Killebrew becomes a better player

Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press

Miles Killebrew still is learning the defense, but as the Detroit Lions got younger at safety this off-season, Killebrew found it made him a better player.

“I’ve learned if you teach it actually makes you learn a little bit better,” Killebrew said on the final day of Lions minicamp last week. “So I’ve been teaching the young safeties a little bit and it’s been a blast learning.”

The Lions return veterans Glover Quin and Tavon Wilson as their starting safeties and have Don Carey in a special-teams role, but otherwise count a group of relative newcomers as backups.