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Dan Campbell gives encouraging update on Christian Mahogany after Detroit Lions’ disciplinary benching, but leaves some uncertainty
After benching Christian Mahogany for repeated violations of team rules, Dan Campbell says the guard will return to work with Detroit’s first-team offense. That puts Mahogany on track to reclaim his starting job against New England, although Campbell stopped short of guaranteeing it.
There have been a few twists and turns with the Detroit Lions and Christian Mahogany lately. Last Sunday, he surprisingly was not the Lions’ starting left guard and never played a down on offense in that game.
After that, we found out that the reason was disciplinary. From there, we learned that whatever team rule he broke, he broke it multiple times. Then there was the whole “ball is in his court” thing that could have been taken in so many different ways.
Mahogany looks to be back as the Lions’ starting left guard after Dan Campbell’s Wednesday presser
Campbell held his first presser of the week and was asked if things were back on track with Mahogany, and he gave another cryptic-ish answer.
“Yeah, for sure, he’s got a chance. That was good this morning. He was good this morning,” Campbell said.
It’s not a dead-set answer that Mahogany is the Lions’ starting left guard against the Patriots. Then Campbell was asked point-blank if the Lions have a starting left guard, and Campbell gave this answer:
“Do we have a starting left guard? Yeah, I mean, Mahogany is going to go out there, and he’ll start with that, with the first unit,” Campbell said.
Look, it’s still not Campbell flat-out just saying that Mahogany is the Lions’ starting left guard going forward. The way it’s worded could leave open the possibility that it gets interpreted as maybe he doesn’t.
Right now, it looks like he’s back as the team’s starting guard, but part of you has to maybe wonder a little bit this week and then just see if he’s starting there on Sunday or not.
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