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Could we see Jashon Cornell in a Lions uniform by the end of the season? It could happen, based on the second-year defensive end returning to Detroit’s practice on Wednesday.
Cornell has been on the team’s reserve non-football injury/illness list for several weeks. He was cleared to return to actively participating in practice on the Wednesday session leading into Detroit’s Week 14 trip to Denver to face the Broncos.
Like players being activated from injured reserve, Cornell now has 21 days to get back on the active roster or else he will miss the remainder of the season.
It’s been a tough start to the NFL career for Cornell, a seventh-round pick in 2020 out of Ohio State. The physical defensive end tore his Achilles in a training camp practice and missed his rookie campaign. Cornell showed some real ability in the 2021 training camp while playing defensive end, but he was suspended for the first three games of the season for a prior DUI offense. He’s only played in one game in two years, appearing exclusively on special teams in the team’s Week 7 trip to Los Angeles.
Neither the Lions nor Cornell have publicly stated precisely why he’s on the NFI list, but his return to practice offers some hope that the Lions could get something out of their once-promising draft pick.
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