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Lions Forfeit OTA Practice After Violation of NFLPA's On-Field Contact Rules

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The Detroit Lions will have one less opportunity to prepare for the 2024 NFL season.

The franchise released a statement that said that the team's organized team activities that were held during the week of May 17 were in violation of the collective bargaining agreement and that the team's practice scheduled for June 10 had been forfeited as a result.

"On Friday evening the organization was made aware by the NFL and NFLPA that Organized Team Activities (OTA) practices held the week of May 27 violated player work rules pertaining to on-field physical contact pursuant to the Collective Bargaining Agreement," the statement read.