Your inbox approves 🥇 On sale now 🥇 🏈's best, via 📧 Chasing Gold 🥇
USA TODAY Sports+ stories are only available to subscribers.
DETROIT LIONS
Detroit Lions

Opinion: Detroit Lions players skipping voluntary workouts is a mess and makes them worse

Portrait of Carlos Monarrez Carlos Monarrez
Detroit Free Press

DETROIT – What a mess.

There’s just no other way to describe what’s going on between the NFL and the NFL Players Association.

The union is telling players to skip voluntary offseason workouts, ostensibly because of concern over COVID-19 protocols. On Wednesday, Lions players were the fourth among a growing list of NFL teams that said they will skip voluntary offseason workouts.

All things Lions: Latest Detroit Lions news, schedule, roster, stats, injury updates and more.