The Detroit Lions have placed injured linebacker DeAndre Levy on injured reserve and all we can say is… FINALLY!
The #Lions have placed LB DeAndre Levy on injured reserve and have signed LB James-Michael Johnson to fill his place on roster.
— Tim Twentyman (@ttwentyman) November 4, 2015
It is now week nine in the national football league and the Detroit Lions have been using a roster spot on a guy since week five that had surgery on his hip that would have taken a minor miracle for him to recover in time to play at all this season. Then lump in the fact that the Detroit Lions are a 1-7 football team and even if Levy came back he wouldn’t have made an impact enough to push them into the playoffs.
Waiting this long is just another asinine decision by Detroit Lions management. This isn’t a reason to fire a general manager, but a blunder like this certainly shouldn’t help keep a football executive employed.
After the linebacker missed the first four games for the Detroit Lions, he made his would be triumphant return in week five against Arizona, and only played one miserable quarter of football.
Levy and the Detroit Lions agreed to a five-year, $37.2 million dollar extension this past off-season which paid him a $12 million dollar signing bonus and a $1 million dollar salary this year. For that $13 million dollar paycheck, the Detroit Lions got 17 miserable snaps.
This is nothing against DeAndre Levy. He’s a damn good football player and a difference maker when healthy. He doesn’t make the choice on whether or not he’s placed on injured reserve. But if anyone in the Detroit Lions organization was thinking straight, this move should have come in week five and not week nine.
