Detroit cornerback Morice Norris returned to the Lions’ facility two days after he was hospitalized in Atlanta after struggling an damage in a preseason recreation that required him to be taken off the sector in an ambulance, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
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Norris posted and reposted encouraging updates on his Instagram account Saturday morning after he suffered a scary injury the earlier night time that lower quick the Lions’ preseason highway recreation. He posted a narrative with the caption, “Amen Amen I am all good man do not stress it recognize all of the test ins and love.”
Then he reposted a submit from fellow Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold, who included a screenshot of a FaceTime name with a smiling Norris.
“My dawg [Morice] known as me right this moment,” Arnold wrote in his Instagram caption Saturday morning. “Typically we neglect how valuable life is and all the things. That goes into enjoying this recreation that we love however we serve an almighty… God thanks for shielding my brother.”
After struggling an obvious head damage early within the fourth quarter of Friday’s preseason recreation in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Norris was taken off the sector in an ambulance.
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Reasonably than persevering with to play, the Lions and Falcons let the clock run earlier than officers ultimately introduced the sport was suspended with 6:31 remaining.
The Lions announced late Friday night Norris was in steady situation with “feeling and motion in all his extremities.”
Norris, who signed with the Lions as an undrafted free agent out of Fresno State final 12 months, went down on the primary play of the exhibition’s fourth quarter.
Atlanta Falcons and Detroit Lions maintain fingers at midfield after Morice Norris of the Lions sustained an damage through the fourth quarter at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Aug. 8, 2025, in Atlanta. (Picture by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Photos)
(Kevin Sabitus by way of Getty Photos)
Whereas making a sort out, the second-year nook’s head appeared to hit the leg of Falcons operating again Nathan Carter. After receiving about 20 minutes of medical workers consideration, which concluded with Norris being placed on a backboard — together with his head and neck braced — he was evacuated to an Atlanta hospital.
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When the clock began operating once more, gamers on the Falcons’ offense and Lions’ protection gathered in a circle, hand-in-hand with their heads bowed.
On the time the sport was known as, the Lions led, 17-10. However that was on nobody’s thoughts.
“One thing like that occurs, it places issues in perspective,” Lions head coach Dan Campbell mentioned postgame.
Campbell famous he and Falcons head coach Raheem Morris agreed it did not really feel proper to complete the sport.
Norris’ social-media exercise Saturday morning is a welcome sight, as is the continuing assist he receives across the league and from followers all over the place.
