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WR Bruce Ellington is starting for the Lions without one of his hamstring muscles

ALLEN PARK -- Bruce Ellington's stay in San Francisco was derailed by a hamstring injury. His stay in Houston was derailed by a hamstring injury. So he was asked this week, naturally enough, whether the hamstring is full recovered now that he's in Detroit.

And it produced a very unnatural response.

"I don't know if it's fully recovered," he said, "because they removed it. So I don't have it anymore."

Hold up. Um, what?

"It's the semitendinosus," Ellington said. "That muscle they took away."

For those without a medical degree, let me Google that for you.