Lions' DeAndre Levy 'felt good' after preseason appearance
Linebacker's progress encouraging for a team that may need a Pro Bowl-caliber performance from a thin position group
Detroit Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy made two tackles while playing 23 snaps in his only game of the exhibition season.
It wasn’t perfect. But it didn’t need to be.
“Nobody’s in midseason form in the third preseason game,” Levy said. “I felt good. I didn’t feel any hindrances. I didn’t feel any rust or any setbacks or anything like that. But it’s a preseason game. You don’t need to be 100% in the preseason.”
Seeing Levy run around in Baltimore was encouraging enough after he played just 17 snaps last season while he dealt with a hip injury that required surgery.
Levy played at a Pro Bowl level in 2013-14 with 270 tackles and seven interceptions. And the Lions are counting on that kind of production to help bolster a thin linebacker corps.
Levy said he feels “good” and “ready to roll.” He said he just needs to get completely acclimated to the mental part of the game.
“All that feels fine,” he said of his physical health. “It’s just getting used to being back out there on defense, getting some of the calls. We have a really deep playbook, so just making that become second nature.”
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