ALLEN PARK >> DeAndre Levy will have surgery, but it has not been determined if he will miss the rest of the season.
“After consulting with all of medical staff, training staff and outside sources as well the best immediate course of action is for him to have surgery,” coach Jim Caldwell said Wednesday. “He had a little setback in the course of the game, he’ll have surgery in short order.”
The Detroit Lions weakside linebacker played his first game of the season in the loss to the Cardinals on Sunday, but left before the half and was not able to return due to aggravating his hip injury.
It will be determined after surgery, if he will be shut down for the season.
“Every surgery is unique, every individual is unique so it will take us time to sort that out,” Caldwell said.
Earlier this season, medical personnel had determined surgery was not the best course of action. That changed on Sunday.
Levy has been missed.
“Any time you have a guy who plays as well as he does consistently, with the kind of experience he has you lose that for a period of time – he’s been out for quite some time – he’s a very, very integral part of what we do,” Caldwell said.
Josh Bynes has started in his place. While Bynes is not the same player as Levy he has produced.
“We do have some capable guys obviously in that position. … Our numbers should be there, we anticipate getting the kind of production we expect out of that spot as well,” Caldwell said.
He added that one of the reasons they kept seven linebackers on the 53-man roster was concerns about Levy who was first injured in late August.
Levy was out on the field watching practice on Wednesday.
Ebron could have saved the day
Eric Ebron said that if he had been able to play on Sunday, the Lions wouldn’t have lost the game to the Cardinals.
“I should have absolutely torn apart – it was hard (to watch). That was my game plan going in, it still hurts because we shouldn’t have been in that situation, if I would have played we wouldn’t have been in that situation, but stuff happens, it’s the NFL,” Ebron said. “You risk your life every time you go out there, it hurts.”
Ebron returned to work Wednesday with a limited practice for the first time since he injured his knee in the loss at Seattle two weeks ago. Initially he thought the injury was much more serious.
“A great relief, I mean me personally I thought it was horrible,” Ebron said. “When I got the report back what happened, I was excited and ready to do whatever I had to do to play.”
He started running last week although did not practice. He is not surprised that he has healed quickly.
“I’m 22, I ain’t 40 like most of these guys in here,” Ebron said.
Still it’s uncertain if he’ll be ready to play on Sunday against the Chicago Bears at Ford Field.
One win for Stafford
Matthew Stafford’s blue shoes left him with a $5,800 fine after the Seattle game, but he has since had the fine rescinded.
The blue cleats with gray laces were the same shoes Ndamukong Suh wore all last season.
“No, I colored them in. I met with a guy, got that fine reseeded so that’s good. I’m just going to be switching cleats, not that that’s a big issue. Switching cleats because I’m tired of having to deal with it,” Stafford said on Wednesday.
Color them in? “I just had to add more grey or something to them.”
He didn’t understand the original fine which was from the game where Calvin Johnson fumbled in the end zone and then the officials blew the call on the batted ball.
“It’s way too complicated for shoes, honestly. It had to do with it being too much blue I think, so I understood it and I will move on with a new pair of cleats,” Stafford said.
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