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Detroit Lions offensive lineman T.J. Lang played in just six games this past season due to a neck injury that landed him on the injured reserve list. Now, the Lions are trying to figure out what to do with him.
Lang will earn over $11.5 million next year, and given the fact that he has not played a full 16-game season since 2014, that might be a bit too expensive for Detroit's taste.
Lang is also due a $500,000 roster bonus at the beginning of the new league year, and Lions general manager Bob Quinn is still weighing his options.
“Everyone’s kind of different in terms of the evaluation process on each player,” Quinn said, according to Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com. “Some players you can have the evaluation done in a couple weeks after the season, some guys linger a little bit longer. I would say T.J. is in that category of someone that we’re still kind of going through the process of thinking about what we want to do and kind of talking to T.J. a little bit here and there. Those conversations between myself and him we’ll kind of keep private.”
Lang, who played his collegiate football at Eastern Michigan, was originally selected by the Green Bay Packers in the fourth round (109th pick overall) of the 2009 NFL Draft.
He played the first eight years of his career with the Packers, making one Pro Bowl before joining the Lions in 2017. The 31-year-old then proceeded to make another trip to Honolulu in his first season in Detroit.
