When Brad Holmes looked at the Detroit Lions secondary heading into training camp, he saw what just about everyone else saw: youth, inexperience and an extensive set of injury questions that had the potential to make or break the unit heading into the season.
“It was a lot of question marks back there,” Holmes said Thursday.
With the regular season just over a week away, Holmes said he sees something entirely different in his defensive backfield now — something that has a lot do with the emergence of third-year cornerback Jeff Okudah.
Okudah won the starting left cornerback job after a camp battle with Will Harris and, just shy of a year removed from rupturing his Achilles tendon, has a chance to make good on the promise he showed as the No.