{"id":40912,"date":"2021-09-24T03:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T03:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/campbell-lions-are-looking-to-trade-lb-collins\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T03:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T03:25:50","slug":"campbell-lions-are-looking-to-trade-lb-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/?p=40912","title":{"rendered":"Campbell: Lions are looking to trade LB Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"61.282251082251\">\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2021-09-23T16:25:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">12:25 PM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Eric Woodyard<span>ESPN <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>ALLEN PARK, Mich. &#8212; Detroit Lions linebacker Jamie Collins didn&#8217;t report to the practice facility on Thursday, and coach Dan Campbell confirmed that the team is exploring a trade for the nine-year veteran.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell felt it was important to be transparent throughout the process, explaining that the team has met with the one-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion to communicate their plans.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions are hoping to complete the process sooner than later, Campbell said, but they&#8217;re not putting a timetable on it either. Campbell said they have suitors.<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Just felt like it was time for a reduced role and I have too much respect for him to do that,&#8221; Campbell said. &#8220;We felt like it was time for [Derrick] Barnes and [Jalen] Reeves-Maybin to play more. This is really the reason why we&#8217;re making the decision we&#8217;re making &#8212; we&#8217;re trying to move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a two-game assessment, Campbell and the coaching staff indicated this was the best decision to open up more opportunities for other guys.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions also signed inside linebacker <a href=\" Woods to the active roster from the Chicago Bears' practice squad on Thursday, while placing wide receiver Tyrell Williams on injured reserve and kicker Austin Seibert on the reserve\/COVID-19 list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time for us to start to look at some of our young guys and allow them the chance to go out there and play,&#8221; said Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn.<\/p>\n<p>Collins racked up 10 total tackles with a tackle for loss and a fumble recovery in back-to-back losses to San Francisco and Green Bay. Campbell said he feels moving in another direction was the best decision for both sides and would&#8217;ve preferred that same openness when he was once an NFL player in their shoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t want to hide from it. You don&#8217;t want to sugarcoat it. You just tell it like it is because you can respect that,&#8221; Campbell said. &#8220;You may not like it, but you&#8217;ll always respect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12:25 PM ET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}