PHILADELPHIA — A week after the Detroit Lions’ offense kicked into gear, it found itself stuck in the mud at Lincoln Financial Field.

In a game that was supposed to be a litmus test for this team’s title hopes, the Lions came up short offensively on just about every big play against the reigning Super Bowl champions.

Detroit went 4-for-15 on third down and tied an NFL record, according to TruMedia data, by whiffing on all five of its fourth-down attempts as they were K.O.’d by the title defenders in a 16-9 loss on “Sunday Night Football.”

Detroit’s key cogs in the passing game — quarterback Jared Goff, wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and the entire offensive line — all earned their fair share of the blame for Detroit’s shortcomings.

The Lions (6-4) entered the day in first place in the NFC North and are now in third. The Eagles are 8-3.

Could the protection have been better? Sure. The Eagles’ pass rush was humming on Sunday night, and it was most noticeable during a fourth-and-goal from the 4-yard line: Goff had a wide-open Brock Wright for a would-be touchdown, but with edge rusher Jaelen Phillips, the Eagles’ shiny deadline acquisition, barreling down on him after cleanly beating Penei Sewell, he made an ill-advised throw to St. Brown that fell incomplete.

Still, a number of the conversions just came down to poor execution — an underthrown pass here, a blatant drop there — as the Lions let the opportunity they’ve waited for slip right through their fingers. Goff targeted St. Brown six times on third and fourth down, connecting on none of them. He targeted Jameson Williams once on fourth down; the pass was low, but catchable, and dropped.

Goff set a career-low in completion rate (14-for-37, 37.8%) as he threw for 255 yards, a touchdown and an interception with a passer rating of 60.1. St. Brown had two catches for 42 yards on a whopping 12 targets. Williams had four catches for 88 yards and a 40-yard touchdown.

The Lions’ defense held up its end of the bargain, holding the Eagles to 273 yards of offense and 3-for-13 on third down. It was repeatedly put in bad spots — the Eagles had three drive starts in Lions territory during the first half, including an early field-goal drive that started at Detroit’s 11 after an interception. Saquon Barkley was held to 3.2 yards per carry (83 yards on 26 attempts).

Not all the blame can be attributed to the players. Sunday night was not Dan Campbell’s best coaching performance. He kept going for it on fourth down until perhaps the most important one of the game; with 5:10 remaining and the Lions down 10, Detroit surrendered their weapons and punted it away.

Detroit miraculously had a chance to get back in the game on Philadelphia’s final possession. After cutting the deficit to 16-9, the Lions appeared to get a stop on third-and-8 with 1:47 remaining that would’ve given them the ball back, but the officials — who’d let handsy cornerback play go all game — threw a pass-interference flag on Lions cornerback Rock Ya-Sin.

Of course, the Eagles deserve their credit, too. They were far and away the better team on Sunday night, which is perhaps a more difficult reality to grapple with than the one in which the Lions simply wasted their opportunities.

Philadelphia’s pass rush sure looks Super Bowl-caliber, and they made sure Goff felt the heat down-in, down-out. He was 0-for-10 with an interception when pressured, according to Pro Football Focus live data.

And the Eagles’ run defense was as mean as ever. Jahmyr Gibbs was limited to 39 yards on 12 carries — but had a career-high 107 receiving yards — as David Montgomery carried it six times for 27 yards.

The Lions got a quick stop to start the game and immediately started moving the ball on offense. The Eagles reversed the momentum when Jordan Davis deflected a pass at the line of scrimmage, and it was intercepted by Cooper DeJean, who returned the ball to Detroit’s 11-yard line.

Detroit’s defense held and limited the Eagles — the NFL’s No. 1 red zone offense entering Sunday — to a field goal that made it 3-0 at 9:43 in the first quarter.

The Lions gambled on fourth-and-1 from their own 48-yard line, rushing to the line after getting stuffed on third-and-short to try another handoff. But Gibbs was stuffed again, resulting in a turnover on downs. But Detroit’s defense got another stop, forcing a three-and-out on the ensuing possession.

Detroit was stopped again in its own territory during the following series. Facing a fourth-and-2 at their own 43, the Lions ran a direct snap to Grant Stuard, who was stuffed short of the line for another turnover on downs. The Eagles turned this stop into points, adding a 34-yard field goal off the foot of Jake Elliott for a 6-0 lead with 6:02 to go in the half.

The failed fake punt was the first of two costly coaching decisions in the first half.

The Lions’ offense got on track in the blink of an eye, taking the ball 74 yards in three plays as Jameson Williams exploded for a 40-yard touchdown. He caught a pass from Goff over the middle and accelerated into the end zone, drawing a personal foul for excessive celebration when he celebrated by hugging the goalpost.

The Eagles then marched right down the field for a touchdown to regain the lead near the end of the first half. After A.J. Brown caught an 11-yard pass to set up first-and-goal at the 5-yard line with more than a minute left in the half, Campbell — who had all three timeouts in his pocket — allowed Philadelphia to burn off most of the remaining clock and give the ball back to Detroit with a 13-6 lead and only 16 seconds left in the half.

Photo gallery from Sunday Night Football matchup between the Lions and Eagles

Jalen Hurts gave Philadelphia the lead with a 1-yard rushing touchdown via the “Tush Push,” the Eagles’ infamous quarterback sneak.

The Lions caught a break early in the third quarter when Philadelphia was called for a false start before attempting the “Tush Push,” which NBC rules analyst Terry McAulay said should have been a neutral-zone infraction on Lions defensive tackle Tyleik Williams.

Detroit’s defense got off the field with a stop on the ensuing third-and-6, then raced down the field behind some significant gains from Gibbs, including a 42-yard reception. The Lions again failed to convert on a money down as Goff, under heavy pressure, threw an incompletion to a covered St. Brown instead of a wide-open Brock Wright on fourth-and-goal at the 4 for the turnover on downs.

Takeaways as lifeless Lions offense flounders in 16-9 loss to Eagles

The Lions’ defense continued to get stops as the offense continued to sputter. Detroit had another fourth-down attempt near midfield near the end of the third quarter, but again the St. Brown connection faltered, as Goff misfired to his most trusted weapon for Detroit’s fifth turnover on downs.

The Eagles took a big step toward putting the game away when they added a 49-yard field goal from Elliott with 10:15 remaining.

The Lions gave themselves an opportunity when they stopped a pair of “Tush Pushes” to force a turnover on downs in Philadelphia territory with 2:57 to go. Detroit made it a one-score game with a 54-yard field goal from Jake Bates.

But after kicking the ball away with all three timeouts, the Lions couldn’t get the stop required as officials made a controversial third-down pass interference call on Ya-Sin to all but end the game.

It was a cold and blustery evening at Lincoln Financial Field, when the the Detroit Lions arrived to face a Philadelphia Eagles squad that had won seven of their first nine games of the season.

Dan Campbell is quite familiar with the hostile environment, as he spent several seasons playing for the New York Giants.

“To go back to all this, in my own history I was in the NFC East for seven years. Philly, I know it well and it’s a special place to play,” Campbell said in an interview with FOX-2. “It is hostile, it’s gonna be as hostile as a place we’ve ever been to. It is an electric atmosphere, man. Our guys are going to love this. We get a champion, get to play a champ, it’s gonna be a heavyweight fight. We’ve got to be on cue, and it’s just the type of game that we love, so this is perfect.”

Both teams understood the significant ramifications of the NFC heavyweight showdown.

After 60 mins of action, the Lions’ offense was not able to overcome Vic Fangio’s stingy Eagles defense.

Next up is a home contest against the New York Giants at Ford Field.

Here are several takeaways from the Lions’ 16-9 loss to the Eagles:

 

Eagles defense forces early turnover

After Detroit won the opening coin toss, the defense was able to force a stop on the Eagles opening offensive drive.

Campbell decided to start the game on their first possession passing the football, finding Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jahmyr Gibbs for early completions.

Unfortunately, the Eagles defensive line made a play early in the Week 11 contest. Jordan Davis was able to tip a Jared Goff pass that was intended for tight end Brock Wright, resulting in Cooper DeJean interception that was returned to the Lions 11-yard line.

After a sudden change of possession, Detroit’s defense held, as the Eagles were forced to settle for a Jake Elliott 27-yard field goal.

Lions offense struggles to establish rhythm in first half

It was tough sledding for Detroit’s offense throughout their first four offensive possessions.

Last week, Detroit was able to move the football quite easily. In the rougher weather conditions, the ability to extend drives early in the game proved to be quite difficult.

Unfortunately, rookie right guard Tate Ratledge left the game during the team’s third offensive possession. He was replaced by Trystan Colon for a brief period of time before returning to action.

Eagles linebacker Jaelan Phillips made his presence felt by sacking Goff in the first quarter.

Early in the second quarter, Campbell made the decision to go for it on fourth-and-1 near midfield. The Eagles defensive line, which stuffed Jahmyr Gibbs the play prior, was able to again stuff Detroit’s rushing attack, forcing a turnover on downs.

Jameson Williams helps team, also hurts team

The Eagles capitalized on sniffingn out Detroit’s attempt at a fake punt in the second quarter.

After taking a 6-0 lead, the Lions found their top two offensive weapons on their sixth offensive drive of the first half.

Amon-Ra St. Brown was on the receiving end of a 34-yard reception. The very next play, Goff found Jameson Williams, who was then able to easily scamper for a 40-yard touchdown.

After jumping into the uprights, the speedy wideout incurred an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, forcing kicker Jake Bates to try a 48-yard extra-point. Williams celebration ended up costing his team.

In tougher conditions, Bates sent the extra point wide right, keeping the game tied at 6-6.

Super Bowl champs put clamps on Lions’ offense, Eagles prevail

Lions do not execute at championship level on fourth down

Last week, Gibbs recorded three touchdowns against Washington, becoming the sixth player in NFL history to score 40 prior to his 24th birthday.

On Detroit’s first drive of the second half, the team was not able to execute on fourth down, as a Goff pass was low and unable to be caught by Williams.

Following a defensive stop, Gibbs sparked the offense, assisting the team move down the field and into the red zone. He took a screen pass for a big gain, bursting 42 yards to the Philadelphia 24-yard line.

However, after Gibbs took three more runs inside the Eagles’ 10, the drive stalled out. On fourth down, the Eagles defensive line pressured Goff, forcing the incompletion on a toss to St. Brown.

Photo gallery from Sunday Night Football matchup between the Lions and Eagles

Eagles defensive line exposes Lions offensive line

The Eagles feature one of the top defensive line units in the league. As the game went on, and noticeably in the third quarter, the offensive line struggled to protect Goff enough to allow him enough time to make throws.

It was pointed out on the television broadcast just how much difficulty Detroit’s offensive line had with Phillips and Jordan Davis.

As a result, Goff was regularly pressured, hurried and struggled to consistently find his receivers in stride or in position to allow for yards after the catch. He had multiple passes batted at the line of scrimmage and was forced off platform routinely.

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The Detroit Lions’ offense couldn’t get anything going in their Sunday Night Football matchup, turning the ball over on downs five times in a 16-9 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, their fourth loss of the season, dropping them to third in the NFC North standings.

Here are all the sights from the game:

Takeaways as lifeless Lions offense flounders in 16-9 loss to Eagles

Super Bowl champs put clamps on Lions’ offense, Eagles prevail

NEW YORK (AP) — Lucas Raymond scored the tiebreaking goal late in the third period and the Detroit Red Wings beat the New York Rangers 2-1 on Sunday night.

Alex DeBrincat also scored and Cam Talbot had 18 saves as Detroit rebounded from a 5-4 overtime loss to Buffalo at home on Saturday.

Mika Zibanejad scored for the Rangers, who snapped a three-game winning streak and fell to 1-7-1 at home to go along with their league-best 9-1-1 road mark. Jonathan Quick finished with 40 saves.

Raymond scored his fifth of the season with 3:47 remaining as he brought the puck into the offensive zone up the right side, skated around the back of the net and beat Quick from between the circles.

DeBrincat opened the scoring with his ninth on the power play at 9:30 of the second. Raymond and Patrick Kane had assists on the play, with Kane getting his 1,352nd point — one behind Guy Lafleur for 30th place on the all-time scoring list.

Zibanjead tied it with his seventh on the power play with 8:01 remaining in the middle period. Artemi Panarin had an assist on the play, giving him 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in his last six games.

New York, which beat Nashville last Monday for its lone home win, has been shut out five times and scored once in two other losses at Madison Square Garden.

Before the game, the Rangers honored Hall of Fame journalist Larry Brooks, who passed away on Nov. 13 at 75. Brooks primarily covered the Rangers for the New York Post in a career spanning five decades.

Up next

Red Wings: Host Seattle on Tuesday night to start a three-game homestand.

Rangers: At Vegas on Tuesday night to begin a three-game trip.

— By ALLAN KREDA, Associated Press

By JOHN HANNA and JACK DURA The Associated Press

CARBONDALE, Kan. (AP) — Four law enforcement officers were shot Saturday morning while responding to a domestic violence call at a home in a rural area south of Topeka, and a 22-year-old male suspect died of gunshot wounds at the scene.

The suspect’s 77-year-old grandfather also was wounded in the gunfire but he and the law enforcement officers are all expected to recover, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said.

The shooting occurred around 10:30 a.m. Three Osage County sheriff’s deputies and one Kansas Highway Patrol trooper were shot, the KBI’s director and the patrol’s superintendent said.

Two deputies underwent surgery at a Topeka hospital and were in good condition, the KBI said, and the third deputy was discharged. The trooper was transferred from the same hospital to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.

“After being on scene less than 10 minutes, gunfire erupted,” patrol Superintendent Erik Smith said during a news conference at the Carbondale City Library.

Carbondale is a town of about 1,300 people about 16 miles south of Topeka, the state capital, off Highway 75.

The shooting stunned neighbors John and Heather Roberts, who live about a mile north of where it occurred on the same two-lane road. They never sensed any problem in any of the family members, such as drugs, alcohol abuse or violence, and they said the suspect’s grandmother gave Christian books to area children she knew.

They said it is not uncommon to see law enforcement vehicles on the road outside their home because they live at the line between Osage County, home to Carbondale, and Shawnee County, home to Topeka, and vehicles turn around there or the counties exchange prisoners.

John Roberts said he was putting siding on his barn when two law enforcement vehicles flew down the road in the morning.

“Both of them were running, I would say, well over 100 miles an hour as they went by,” he said. “Then the city of Topeka officers started going by. That’s when I started to really get concerned.”

He said the suspect visited the shop he has at his home to return tools and was “a good kid.” Roberts added that many families in the area own guns because hunting is a common hobby, and that was the case with this family.

“I love the family. They’re great people,” Heather Roberts said, adding that she and her husband were praying for the wounded officers too.

She said every time the suspect visited their home, he would give her a hug and he was “very respectful.”

“I don’t know what snapped in him today, but his grandparents loved him very much,” she said.

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Dura reported from Bismarck, North Dakota.

Exiled by the elite after his conviction for sexually soliciting a teenage girl and failing to rehabilitate his image as a sexual predator, an embittered Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 believed his old friend Donald Trump had escaped scrutiny.

“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump,” Epstein wrote to his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell that April, noting Trump had “spent hours at my house” with Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent women to speak out about being abused by the financier, who died by suicide in April.

The correspondence, obtained from Epstein’s estate by the House Oversight Committee, was included among more than 20,000 documents released this week that brought the men’s relationship history into greater focus. Scores of emails in the cache chart Epstein’s obsession with Trump as he spiraled into scandal and his Palm Beach neighbor ascended to the presidency.

Epstein was at a low point when he sent the missive to Maxwell after serving jail time in Florida for soliciting a 16-year-old. Two months earlier, a Manhattan judge had rejected a bid to downgrade his sex offender status, despite the well-connected wealth manager having then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., in his corner.

Giuffre had publicly spoken out about her allegations that Epstein trafficked her to powerful men for sex, sharing with the Daily Mail a now-infamous photograph of her with his friend Prince Andrew and Maxwell as apparent evidence.

Epstein’s 2011 email to Maxwell marveled that Trump, then hosting “The Apprentice” and floating a run for president had “never once been mentioned.”

“I have been thinking about that…,” Maxwell replied.

Democrats released Epstein’s 2011 message to Maxwell among a set of emails early Wednesday that appeared to suggest the president knew about the financier’s depraved lifestyle and its young victims.

Claiming that their colleagues across the aisle had engaged in a cherry-picking mission, House Republicans later published thousands of Epstein’s digital files online, revealing Giuffre’s identity in the 2011 message, which the Democrats had previously redacted. Many came to the president’s defense, arguing that it proved nothing. Giuffre, they noted, had denied that Trump had abused her or that she’d seen him abuse others in the years before her death.

The president has long denied engaging in any abuse and claimed he stopped talking to Epstein — whom he’d counted as a friend since the 1980s — in the early 2000s over a dispute related to real estate.

On Friday, following a barrage of reporting about the emails, Trump took to his social media site Truth Social to slam what he calls the “EPSTEIN HOAX.” He demanded the Justice Department investigate Epstein’s “involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, would head the probe.

Dirt on Trump

The trove of Epstein emails released this week, massive in volume and spanning 2011 to 2019, includes 1,625 references to Trump, although there is no direct communication between the two men.

Made clear throughout is that — whether or not he did — Epstein maintained he had dirt on Trump.

Messaging ahead of a presidential debate in December 2015, Epstein asked his quasi-consultant, Trump biographer Michael Wolff, with whom he spoke regularly, how Trump might best answer a potential question about their relationship.

“I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt,” Wolff responded.

“Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”

Wolff suggested it could be time to pull the trigger less than two weeks before Trump won the presidency in 2016, following the release of “Filthy Rich,” a book about Epstein’s perversions.

“There’s an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him. Interested?” Wolff wrote on Oct. 29. It’s not clear from the release whether Epstein responded.

The batch of emails released this week, made searchable online by the Courier Newsroom, is separate from the federal government’s investigative records — the so-called “Epstein files” — whose release the House of Representatives is set to vote on next week.

The trove sheds light on Epstein’s state of mind in the years before his death, and how closely he followed the president’s whereabouts, policy moves, and his own set of scandals. In countless typo-laden emails, the Brooklyn-born financier situated himself as a POTUS expert in conversations with journalists and various confidants, spoke with members of Trump’s inner circle, and sought to shape U.S. policy.

In June 2018, he asked former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland to convey a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin about his willingness to provide insight on Trump.

His correspondence with Wolff is featured throughout the records, and Epstein also frequently spoke about Trump with former New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr., joking about sending him a photo of Trump with girls in bikinis in his kitchen in December 2015.

Epstein communicated regularly with the often foul-mouthed former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, whom he told Trump was “borderline insane,” the emails show.

He also chatted often with Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who in August 2018 told the financier they had to discuss “a crazed jihad against u,” and that “somebody big has u in the gunsights.”

After Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws for then-President Trump in the now-notorious Stormy Daniels hush money scheme in 2018, Epstein alluded to his insider’s perspective in correspondence with Kathy Ruemmler, a former Goldman Sachs executive and Obama aide, with whom the cache shows he frequently chatted.

“You see, i know how dirty donald is,” the financier quipped. “my guess is that non-lawyers ny biz people have no idea. what it means to have your fixer flip.”

“The real villain”

That December, The Miami Herald published the most complete account yet of allegations Epstein had serially exploited vulnerable teenage girls. The piece laid out how Epstein had effectively gotten off with a slap on the wrist in his 2008 plea deal due to former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, who Trump had tapped as his Labor Secretary.

Epstein strategized with Wolff, who believed “directly debunking” the claims wasn’t the right move.

“That’s going against virtue itself,” Wolff wrote. “What I’d like to do is game out everything, creating a structure for thinking this through. Definitely not a piecemeal response. Figure out where we want to be and where we can reasonably get and work backwards.”

Epstein replied, “im thinking what would trump do.”

“Claims are ludicrous and self-serving, media is working with the other side’s lawyers, this is all about Donald Trump,” Wolff responded.

“…all about Donald Trump, the real villain,” Epstein said.

Less than two months later, Epstein explicitly implicated Trump, mentioning Mar-a-Lago to Wolff in a partially redacted email on January 31, 2019, and writing, “trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. . of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”

Epstein was apparently still focused on the president the following June, when an email outlining some of Trump’s potentially questionable financial dealings landed in his inbox. Epstein’s accountant Richard Kahn sent over “interesting findings” from financial disclosures, or what Kahn called “trumps 100 pages of nonsense.”

Within eight weeks, Epstein was dead. Officials said he’d killed himself in his lower Manhattan jail cell a month after his arrest on sweeping sex trafficking charges.

Maxwell, his longtime partner in crime, was indicted a year later for aiding the abuse for at least a decade in the 1990s and convicted at trial in December 2021. This summer, she was transferred to a cushy prison facility in Bryan, Texas, after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer, for a highly unusual sit-down.

Transcripts of the meeting showed that Epstein’s longtime right-hand revealed little new information but notably praised the president, whom she is reportedly now planning to ask for a pardon.

EAST LANSING (AP) — Isaline Alexander scored 20 points off the bench and No. 24 Michigan State thrashed Western Michigan 98-44 on Sunday.

Alexander, a senior whose past two seasons were cut short by injury, was 9-for-9 shooting and made 2 of 5 free throws.

Grace VanSlooten had 19 points, eight rebounds and four assists for Michigan State (4-0). Kennedy Blair delivered 14 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. Rashunda Jones scored 13 points.

The Spartans scored the first 18 points of the game and led 31-5 after one quarter. Michigan State dominated the third quarter in similar fashion, outscoring the Broncos 33-7 due in large part to a scoring streak of 21-2.

The Spartans had a huge 39-1 advantage in points after turnovers. Western Michigan turned it over 29 times compared to only four miscues for Michigan State.

De’Ahna Richardson scored 11 points and Kailey Starks 10 for the Broncos (1-3). Ariana Wilkes had 10 rebounds and the Broncos outrebounded the Spartans 43-37.

Michigan State entered the game second in the NCAA and second in the Big Ten in assists per game, averaging 27.3. The Spartans had 28 assists on Sunday.

The Spartans have won 12 in a row in the series after trailing 8-7 in the early days of the in-state matchup.

Up next

Michigan State: Eastern Illinois visits on Thursday.

Western Michigan: The Broncos host Roosevelt on Tuesday.

Saline quarterback Tommy Carr, the grandson of former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, has switched his college commitment to the Wolverines.

He had been committed to Miami of Ohio.

Carr (6-foot-3, 195 pounds) is ranked a three-star prospect by 247Sports. He is ranked the No. 7 player overall in Michigan in 2026 and the No. 29 quarterback nationally in the 2026 recruiting class.

Saline’s run in the Michigan high school football playoffs ended Friday night with a 42-28 loss to Detroit Cass Tech in a Division 1 regional final. Carr led Saline to a 10-2 record this season, passing for 2,797 yards and 37 touchdowns

Carr is the younger brother of Notre Dame quarterback CJ Carr and the son of former Michigan QB Jason Carr.

Michigan’s 2026 recruiting class has 25 commitments and is ranked No. 10 nationally by 247Sports.

President Trump announced he’s withdrawing his support of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling his former ally a “ranting lunatic” and a “disgrace to our great Republican party” for publicly blasting his handling of various issues, including the Epstein files.

In a wild post shared on his social media platform Friday night, Trump wrote that despite accomplishing what he called “record achievements for our country” and turning the U.S. into the world’s “hottest” nation, all that “Wacky Marjorie” does is “complain, complain, complain.”

He said he would endorse a challenger against Greene “if the right person runs” in next year’s midterm elections, claiming the people of her district are similarly “fed up with her and her antics.”

The political breakup appears to be the culmination of a dispute that had been simmering for at least six months, which the president suggested began when he discouraged Greene from running for Senate or governor.

She also “told many people that she is upset” that Trump doesn’t “return her phone calls anymore,” the president said.

“With 219 congressmen/women, 53 U.S. senators, 24 Cabinet members, almost 200 countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting lunatic’s call every day,” Trump wrote on Truth Social around 8:30 p.m. Friday.

President Trump just attacked me and lied about me. I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today. Apparently this is what sent him over the edge.

The Epstein files.

And of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other… pic.twitter.com/EcUzaohZZs

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) November 15, 2025

Less than an hour later, the polarizing Georgia lawmaker — and former MAGA powerhouse — fired back at Trump’s claims in a lengthy post on X, sharing a screenshot of a text message she said “sent him over the edge.”

“President Trump just attacked me and lied about me. I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today,” she wrote, posting a message in which she tells the president about the importance of “releasing the Epstein files.”

Greene was one of a handful of Republicans to sign on with House Democrats to force a vote over releasing the files related to the sex trafficking investigation into the disgraced late financier.

“It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out — that he actually goes to this level,” Greene continued.

Despite being a longtime and ardent supporter of the president and the MAGA agenda, Greene said she doesn’t “worship or serve Donald Trump.”

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Early Saturday morning, Trump doubled down on his attack, slamming “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene” as someone who has “betrayed the entire Republican party when she turned left.”

A few hours later, Greene suggested the exchange is making her fear for her life.

“I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world,” she wrote on X. “The man I supported and helped get elected.”

“As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump‘s bills and agenda, his aggression against me, which also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls (many of whom are paid), this is completely shocking to everyone,” wrote Greene, who in 2019 famously stalked and confronted Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg with claims that his gun control activism was being funded by Democrats.

“The political industrial complex and the toxic violent nature of American politics must end,” she said. “Our country is worth saving and it can only be done if we pull together and save ourselves.”

DETROIT — The issue came up again during Tarik Skubal’s post-Cy Young Award media teleconference Wednesday night.

Not that issue.

Of course, he was asked about his future with the Tigers and he said what he has said all along: He loves being a Tiger. He hopes he can be a Tiger for a long time. But the ultimate decision is largely out of his control.

But that’s not the issue we’re talking about here.

If there is one loose thread that still needs to be secured from the 2025 season, one topic that keeps coming up in media and fan debates, it’s manager AJ Hinch’s decision to pull Skubal after the sixth inning of the season-ending, 15-inning loss in Seattle in Game 5 of the American League Division Series.

To review:

The Tigers took a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the sixth on Kerry Carpenter’s clutch, left-on-left homer off reliever Gabe Speier. And Skubal was cruising. He set down 14 straight Mariners hitters from the second through the sixth, punching out 10 of them including seven in a row in one stretch.

In the sixth, as his pitch count pushed toward 100, he struck out J.P. Crawford with a 99.7-mph heater and finished the inning with a three-pitch punch-out of Cal Raleigh — 99.7, 99.1 and 100.9 mph on his 99th and final pitch.

But the seeds for the decision to pull him at that point were planted an inning earlier, as Hinch explained after the game.

“Easy decision,” Hinch said. “After the fifth, I checked in on him how he was doing physically and emotionally, and we both knew that he had one (inning) left. You know, he emptied his tank and obviously was emotional coming off the mound, and I think that signals exactly where we were in the game.

“He gave us everything he could.”

The Mariners tied the game in the bottom of the seventh against relievers Kyle Finnegan and Tyler Holton and ultimately won it on a walk-off single by Jorge Polanco in the 15th inning.

By that time, Skubal had been out of the game for nine innings. And by the time he addressed the media post-game, the sixth-inning decision was buried beneath the rubble of the heartbreaking ending.

Wednesday night was the first time he talked in depth about that decision and, as usual, he provided some much-needed insight and clarity.

“That was the decision that was made and me and AJ are always on the same page,” he said. “I really respect everything that he does. He’s got a plan for everything. Trust me, I’ve seen a lot of the stuff about how the fans were disappointed or whatever. But it’s just the way the game of baseball is.”

Skubal took the mound in the sixth inning knowing it was going to be his last. And accordingly, he went full-throttle. The 100.9-mph fastball that he blew by Raleigh was pitch 99 of the game and career-high pitch 3,152 of the season.

It came in his career-high 216th inning.

While it may look like you’re watching a video game when Skubal is dominating like that, he’s still a human being. And, as he intimated, he was pitching through some aches and pains.

“The season will run you down a little bit,” he said Wednesday.

But there was a baseball strategy component to the decision that trumped whatever fatigue issues Skubal might’ve been dealing with. Due up for the Mariners in the bottom of the seventh inning that night were right-handed hitters Julio Rodriguez, Polanco and Eugenio Suarez.

Polanco’s presence probably sealed the decision. You might remember, Polanco homered twice off Skubal in Game 2 and seemed to be seeing his pitches as well as any Mariners hitter.

“The way the at-bats had gone with Polanco, even earlier in that game he hit a foul-ball homer,” Skubal said. “I just don’t think that matchup was going to be in the cards that night.”

As it turned out, Finnegan walked Polanco and gave up a two-out single to Josh Naylor, which set the table for pinch-hitter Leo Rivas’ game-tying single off Holton.

“Look, I’m going to go out and compete and give it everything I have,” Skubal said. “I knew my outing was coming to a close there with Polanco looming. Hindsight is 20-20. If you could write a perfect script, we obviously would go do that. I would love to throw 300 pitches every time out. I just don’t know if that’s realistic. Especially in that setting with the lead and nine outs to go.

“I trust our guys in the bullpen 10 out of 10 times to end a game like that.”

That sixth inning decision is fun to debate. But it was well thought-out, logical and on-brand for how Hinch managed all season. It was mutually agreed upon and hardly fatal. If you are looking to point fingers, scoring in just one of 15 innings, going 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position (0 for 6 in extra innings) and leaving 10 runners on base is more the culprit.

“We played in one of the best win-or-go-home games in baseball history,” Skubal said. “We came out the wrong side of that. But at the same time, I thought everybody competed and left it all out there, including myself. As an athlete, that’s all you really can do.”

No more loose threads.

The Detroit Lions will be without tight end Sam LaPorta for at least the next four games after placing him on injured reserve with a back injury on Saturday afternoon.

LaPorta was not spotted at practice or in the locker room all week. Lions coach Dan Campbell was not specific when asked about his injury on Friday, other than noting that he probably wouldn’t practice. The earliest LaPorta can return is Week 15 against the Rams.

The loss is a big one for Detroit, as LaPorta is a major contributor in both the run and passing game. Through nine games this season, he caught 40 passes for 489 yards and three touchdowns.

The Lions also chose not to activate several players who were eligible to come off of injured reserve lists for Sunday’s primetime game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Detroit on Saturday announced that defensive end Marcus Davenport, cornerback D.J. Reed (hamstring), linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez (knee), and offensive lineman Miles Frazier (knee) were not activated and were downgraded to out for the contest. All players were previously listed as questionable.

None of those moves comes as a surprise, except perhaps Rodriguez, who’s beginning to push up against the end of his 21-day acclimation window. Rodriguez must be added to the roster by Tuesday, Nov. 18, or be shut down for the rest of the year.

The Lions also added wide receiver Isaac TeSlaa to the game status report with an oblique injury; he is now questionable for Sunday’s game. The Lions will be shorthanded in the secondary, with Reed joining cornerback Terrion Arnold and All-Pro safety Kerby Joseph in their absence.

Defensive lineman Pat O’Connor, who was placed on injured reserve this week with a knee injury, was waived with an injury settlement.

To round out the roster for Sunday’s game against the Eagles, the Lions signed offensive lineman Michael Niese from the practice squad to the active roster and temporarily elevated wide receivers Tom Kennedy and Jackson Meeks from the practice squad.

EAST LANSING (AP) — Ethan Grunkemeyer threw two touchdown passes to Devonte Ross, Kaytron Allen ran for 181 yards and two touchdowns and Penn State defeated Michigan State 28-10 on Saturday to snap a six-game losing streak.

Grunkemeyer completed 8 of 13 passes for 127 yards for the Nittany Lions (4-6 overall, 1-6 Big Ten).

Grunkemeyer sealed the win with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Ross with 4:32 left and Allen added his second touchdown on a 26-yard run with 2:07 remaining.

Alessio Milivojevic completed 17 of 27 passes for 128 yards for the Spartans (3-7, 0-7) who lost their seventh straight game.

Elijah Tau-Tolliver ran 57 yards for a touchdown on Michigan State’s first play of the game. Allen tied it on the ensuing Penn State possession with an 8-yard scoring run.

Following a Michigan State field goal, the Nittany Lions went in front 14-10 on Grunkemeyer’s 75-yard touchdown pass to Ross.

Michigan State quarterback Aidan Chiles did not play as he was on the pregame sidelines wearing a walking boot on his left foot. He started the first eight games of the season but saw his streak of 20 consecutive starts come to an end on Nov. 1 against Minnesota when he was replaced by Milivojevic.

The Spartans played their first game since the NCAA placed Michigan State’s football program on three years of probation for violations that occurred during Mel Tucker’s tenure as coach.

The takeaway

Penn State: The Nittany Lions avoided their first seven-game losing streak in the same season since 1931. With a home game against Nebraska and traveling to Rutgers to close the regular season, Penn State’s hopes to go to a bowl remain alive.

Michigan State: Porous pass protection and the inability of wide receivers hampered the Spartans’ passing game. Michigan State gave up five sacks to Penn State, raising their total sacks given up this season to 35.

Up next

Penn State hosts Nebraska on Saturday.

Michigan State visits Iowa on Saturday.

— By BOB TRIPI, Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — Olivia Olson scored 30 points and No. 14 Michigan blasted Hannah Hidalgo and No. 18 Notre Dame 93-54 in the Shamrock Classic on Saturday, the worst loss for the Fighting Irish in more than two decades.

Three days after Hidalgo scored a school record 44 points with an NCAA record 16 steals, the Wolverines led wire-to-wire on the Wayne State campus and limited Hidalgo to 12 points on 4-of-21 shooting with seven turnovers. Hidalgo, who has scored in double figures in each game of her career that spans 71 games, converted a a three-point play with 2:21 to go.

Mila Holloway had 12 points, Syla Swords 11 and Ashley Sofilkanich 10 for Michigan (3-0). Swords had nine rebounds and Brooke Quarles Daniels grabbed 10 as the Wolverines had a 50-28 advantage on the boards, dominating second-chance points 19-5 and points in the paint 50-26.

Cassandre Prosper had 17 points and KK Bransford added 15 for the Fighting Irish (3-1).

Swords knocked down consecutive 3-pointers late in the first quarter to give Michigan a 17-10 lead.

Olson made two layups and Swords and Holloway had three-point plays a half-minute apart to give the Wolverines a 28-15 lead four minutes into the second quarter. They pushed the lead to 19 before going into the break on top 46-29.

Michigan finished it off with a 16-0 run in the fourth quarter. The Wolverines shot 50% and Notre Dame 28%, going 2 of 22 behind the arc.

Up next

Michigan is home on Tuesday against Binghamton and plays No. 1 UConn at the Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase in Uncasville on Friday.

Notre Dame returns to campus to play No. 8 Southern Cal on Friday.

Semifinal pairings for teams in the MediaNews Group-Michigan Cluster coverage areas:

(All games are Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025)

 

DIVISION 1

SF1: East Kentwood (10-2) vs. Detroit Catholic Central (12-0) at Jackson, 1 p.m.

SF2: Detroit Cass Tech (12-0) vs. Rochester Adams (10-2) at Troy Athens, 1 p.m.

DIVISION 2

SF1: Orchard Lake St. Mary’s (9-2) vs. Portage Central (12-0) at Haslett, 1 p.m.

SF2: Birmingham Groves (9-3) vs. Dexter (11-1) at Ypsilanti, 1 p.m.

 

DIVISION 3

SF1: Lowell (10-2) vs. Mt. Pleasant (12-0) at Greenville, 1 p.m.

SF2: Warre De La Salle (6-6) vs. DeWitt (12-0) at Grand Blanc, 1 p.m.

 

DIVISION 5

SF2: Monroe Jefferson (11-1) vs. Pontiac Notre Dame Prep (10-2) at Westland John Glenn, 1 p.m.

 

DIVISION 8

SF2: Allen Park Cabrini (11-1) vs. Hudson (12-0) at Adrian College, 1 p.m.

 

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8-PLAYER FINALS

(At NMU’s Superior Dome)

DIVISION 1

Martin (12-0) vs. Montabella (11-1), 11 a.m.

High school football playoff scoreboard for Round 3, regional finals

CHICAGO (AP) — Dominic Zvada kicked a 31-yard field goal as time expired, Jordan Marshall ran for 142 yards and two touchdowns before exiting with an injury and No. 18 Michigan stayed in the playoff chase by beating Northwestern 24-22 at Wrigley Field on Saturday.

The Wolverines (8-2, 6-1 Big Ten, No. 18 CFP) overcame three late turnovers, including two interceptions by Bryce Underwood, and remained in the running for the College Football Playoff with their fourth straight win. Northwestern (5-5, 3-4) lost its third in a row.

Zvada’s boot capped a 50-yard drive and set off a celebration on the field and in the stands, where a large part of the crowd wore maize and blue.

Michigan was up 21-9 when the Wildcats’ Preston Stone plowed in from the 1 two minutes into the fourth quarter.

Michigan then had a third down at its 26 when Braden Turner picked off a pass intended for Deakon Tonielli and returned it to the 6. Caleb Komolafe ran it in on the next play, giving Northwestern at 22-21 lead with 12:05 remaining in the game. The 2-point conversion pass failed.

Michigan then drove to the 30 before Underwood got picked off again, this time by Robert Fitzgerald at the 20. The Wolverines had another opportunity after Northwestern punted, only to give it away again after opting not to go for the field goal. They had a fourth-and-1 at the Wildcats’ 24 when Bryson Kuzdzal fumbled the handoff and Northwestern recovered.

Marshall had another big outing with Justice Haynes missing his second consecutive game because of a right foot injury. After setting career highs with 185 yards rushing and three touchdowns in a narrow win against Purdue two weeks ago, he scored from the 1 early in the second quarter to give Michigan a 7-0 lead.

Underwood, coming off shaky performances in wins over Michigan State and Purdue, completed 21 of 32 passes for 280 yards against a defense that began the day ranked 22nd in the nation against the pass. He also ran for a touchdown.

Freshman Andrew Marsh set career highs with 12 receptions for 189 yards, and the Wolverines beat Northwestern for the 14th time in the past 15 meetings.

Stone was 13 of 27 for 184 yards.

Hunter Welcing had 81 yards receiving, and the Wildcats dropped their 14th straight against Top 25 teams.

Northwestern also fell to 0-7 all-time at Wrigley Field. Six of those losses have come since 2010, when college football returned to the famed ballpark after more than a seven-decade absence.

Takeaways

Michigan: The Wildcats remained on course to make the College Football Playoff, no easy task with No. 1 Ohio State visiting on Nov. 29.

Northwestern: The Wildcats have two more opportunities to become bowl-eligible for the second time in coach David Braun’s three seasons. They host Minnesota at Wrigley next week before visiting Illinois in the finale.

Up next

Michigan: Visits Maryland on Nov. 22.

Northwestern: Hosts Minnesota at Wrigley Field on Nov. 22.

— By ANDREW SELIGMAN, Associated Press

ALLEN PARK — Listen to Dan Campbell talk about Saquon Barkley, and you’ll hear the Detroit Lions head coach describing an oxymoron.

Barkley couples elite size (233 pounds) and strength at his position with rare talent and athleticism. The combination makes him one of the NFL’s best running backs, even if his production in 2025 isn’t quite as historic as it was in 2024, when Barkley ran for a league-best 2,005 yards, helping power the Eagles to their second Super Bowl win in eight years.

“He’s big, but he’s got the agility and the speed of a scat back,” Campbell said of Barkley this week. “He’s powerful, he’s strong, explosive. He can hit the hole. And if he’s got a step and there’s a hole, he can take it the distance. And so you can’t just stick an arm out and pull this guy down. That’s what it is. You’re talking about a power back that’s got very good feet, lateral quicks, and explosiveness and speed to go the distance. That’s what it is.”

Barkley has rushed for 579 yards and four touchdowns on 149 attempts this season, numbers that rank 16th, 17th and eighth, respectively, among all running backs. The Eagles and new offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo haven’t quite found a way to unlock Barkley to his fullest potential, like last season. Barkley is averaging 3.9 yards per carry (31st) and has a rushing success rate of 42.3% (39th).

Perhaps the biggest difference in Barkley’s production is a downtrend in explosive plays. Barkley paced the NFL in designed rushing attempts of 15 or more yards last season (32), according to Pro Football Focus. He’s at seven this season, which currently is tied with Baltimore’s Derrick Henry and Chicago’s D’Andre Swift for 11th.

Those numbers, however, don’t change the Lions’ respect of Barkley. The running back flashed his explosive capabilities in the fourth quarter of a win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, when he caught a pass behind the line of scrimmage and spun away from cornerback Carrington Valentine on the way to picking up 41 yards. The play set the Eagles up to score their only touchdown of the game on their next snap.

“I think he is an explosive player, that every time his hands are on the ball, he’s a threat to score a touchdown,” outside linebackers coach David Corrao said. “You can’t give him a crease. He outruns angles. You see DBs come out of the secondary (and) they think they’ve got the angle on him, and he just runs by them. Then he runs you over. He’s physical, he’s fast, and he’s a complete back that, every time he touches the ball, you better find a way to get multiple guys there to get him on the ground.”

Defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard called Barkley a “generational talent.”

“If you give 26 a lane, he’s going to find it, and he has home run ability,” Sheppard said. “He’s one of the most elite backs in this league.”

ALLEN PARK — Kelvin Sheppard had never heard Roy Lopez’s name before the Detroit Lions visited the Arizona Cardinals last season.

But the former linebackers coach and now first-year defensive coordinator quickly became aware of what Lopez, who signed with the Lions in March after spending two seasons with the Cardinals, was capable of. Former All-Pro center Frank Ragnow and offensive line coach Hank Fraley raved about the defensive tackle, with Ragnow saying, as Sheppard recalled, “That dude’s real, and that’s one of the best noses I’ve gone against this year.”

Lopez has developed a reputation as a stingy run defender, someone who makes his money doing the dirty work, taking on double teams and filling gaps. He’s continued that type of approach with the Lions this season, so far posting a grade against the run from Pro Football Focus (70.6) that ranks 11th among the 112 defensive linemen who’ve received at least 80 run-defense reps.

The Lions’ win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday may have featured Lopez’s best performance through the season’s first 10 weeks. He saw 12 defensive snaps, but he was a force, notching three runs stops (tackles that result in a failed play for the offense) and two pressures. Lopez has eight run stops on the season, leading all defensive linemen on the Lions. The only players on the roster with more are starting linebackers Jack Campbell (18), Alex Anzalone (13) and Derrick Barnes (11).

“He’s playing at a high level, man,” head coach Dan Campbell said of Lopez during his weekly interview with 97.1 The Ticket’s “Costa & Jansen with Heather” show. “It’s one of the reasons we wanted him here. He’s an outstanding role player for us. When he comes in, we don’t miss a beat, man. … He plays with leverage, he’s stout, he’s strong, he’s explosive. But then he can run the line of scrimmage, too, now, so you wanna run wide zone on him, he can get knock-back and run. That was evident the other day. … He plays hard, man. He plays snap to whistle.”

Campbell went on to say Monday that Lopez “showed up big time” against the Commanders, and they he’s been a “quietly productive guy for us the whole season.”

Similar sentiments were shared by Sheppard on Thursday: “You talk about a guy popping off the tape and making the most of your opportunities. That’s why I say, ‘Don’t sulk and feel sorry for yourself. No matter if you get five or 50 plays, what are you going to do with those?’ He got 12, and I felt him on all 12.”

Defending the run starts with proper technique, of course, from pad level to keeping your feet active. But Lopez tabbed want-to as a run defender’s most underrated quality. Sometimes, a defensive lineman’s duty on a rep (especially a nose tackle) isn’t to make the play, per se, but to change the ball-carrier’s path and redirect him toward a teammate. High-level run defenders have to be OK with not stuffing the stat sheet.

“You’ve got to take in pride in walking out of a game with one tackle, no tackles, and know that you did a great job that day. … I think that’s the biggest thing, too, is find the little joys in sending the ball back, cutting the play off, anchoring a double team, a fourth-down stop,” Lopez said. “Those little things, man … you’ve got to live on those. Everybody’s got their thing that they search for. … Don’t get me wrong, I want sacks and TFLs. But sometimes sending the ball back to your team, cutting off a play is your job on that play, so you’ve got to find love in the little things.”

Hearing compliments from his coaches this week was encouraging for Lopez, but what he really takes pride in is the respect he gained from his now-teammates after last year’s game in Arizona. When the Lions signed him, members of the offensive line first introduced themselves before letting him know how much of a pill he was to deal with.

“Those are always cool to hear, especially when you’re not this big name guy in the league and you feel like you’ve played enough ball,” Lopez said. “I wonder if people know my game. And then you go out there and someone’s like, ‘Hey, bro, you’re nice.’ (Then I think to myself), ‘OK, maybe I am.’”

Campbell and Sheppard certainly seem to think so.

DETROIT — While Jaden Ivey still might be a long way from returning to the Detroit Pistons‘ lineup, he is making positive strides. Ivey has begun on-court work as part of his rehabilitation process following an arthroscopic procedure on his right knee in the preseason. There is no specific timeframe for his return to game action, however.

Ivey was at the Henry Ford Pistons Performance Center on Friday for shootaround. He did not participate in any activities as the team prepared for their Emirates NBA Cup game against the Philadelphia 76ers, but did partake in a brief on-court workout that involved stationary shooting.

Ivey underwent an arthroscopic procedure on his right knee on Oct. 16. His recent progression to on-court work corresponds with the team’s four-week re-evaluation.

“It sucks, we all hated to see that,” Cade Cunningham said in October. “But his spirit never dropped. He just put his head down and worked, and that is who he is. He doesn’t get ahead of himself. He just keeps his head down and works. I know he will be fine and come back better than ever, but he has to get all of that stuff cleaned up.”

Coach J.B. Bickerstaff revealed that Ivey suffered the knee injury during training camp. It came while the 23-year-old guard was working his way back from the broken left fibula he sustained on Jan. 1. The Pistons’ medical team, after completing its assessment, decided Ivey should undergo the arthroscopic procedure.

Ivey’s latest injury has delayed his long-awaited return from the broken left fibula that prematurely ended his career-best 2024-25 season. Last season, Ivey appeared in 30 games, averaging a career-best 17.6 points on 40.9% shooting from behind the arc, along with 4.1 rebounds and 4.0 assists.

Before the arthroscopic surgery, Ivey appeared in one preseason game, a 128-112 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Oct. 6. He played 13 minutes, notching seven points and one assist at FedEx Forum.

“It is tough for him; that is what you feel more than anything,” Bickerstaff said. “Going through what he went through last year, working his way back, and then having this happen to him, it was frustrating for him.”

ALLEN PARK — The Detroit Lions will try to beat the Philadelphia Eagles without at least three starters.

Tight end Sam LaPorta (back), safety Kerby Joseph (knee) and cornerback Terrion Arnold (concussion) have all be ruled out for Sunday’s game at Lincoln Financial Field, along with defensive lineman Josh Paschal (back). The situation is particularly murky at cornerback, as both D.J. Reed (hamstring) and Amik Robertson (hamstring) were tabbed as questionable.

Head coach Dan Campbell said Friday he doesn’t see Reed playing against the Eagles. Robertson, meanwhile, told The Detroit News he was feeling “great,” and that he was dealing with some hamstring tightness. “It wasn’t nothing major,” Robertson said.

Down at least two starting defensive backs (Arnold and Joseph) and another (Reed) unlikely to play, the Lions will likely lean on some combination of Rock Ya-Sin, Nick Whiteside and Arthur Maulet at cornerback. Thomas Harper figures to continue starting in place of Joseph. Avonte Maddox, who can play nickel and safety, may see some opportunity, as well.

Also questionable for Sunday’s game are offensive linemen Taylor Decker (shoulder), Penei Sewell (ankle) and Miles Frazier (knee), defensive end Marcus Davenport (shoulder), linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez (knee), running backs Sione Vaki (ankle) and Jacob Saylors (back), and tight end Brock Wright (ankle).

Wright, who is expected to fill in for LaPorta, said his ankle is “good.”

“It might change a little bit. Of course, maybe a different snap count, stuff like that,” Wright said, when asked how much his role changes if he’s the team’s first option at tight end. “But overall, the job is always the same.”

Campbell said his trust in Wright is “sky high.”

“Brock’s a guy we don’t talk a lot about, but he’s the jack of all trades, man, he does everything for us, pass protect, run block, he can run some routes, he plays special teams, like, he’s one of the most dependable players we have on this team,” Campbell said.

“And at the end of the day, what you really need in the tight end position is versatility and smarts, and he’s got both of those, and he’s tough. He checks a lot of boxes of a well-rounded tight end, so that is always going to make me feel a lot better — make us, offensively, feel a lot better.”

So far this season, Wright has nine catches for 71 yards and two touchdowns.

Sewell and Decker did not practice Friday. It’s possible that the players were just resting their preexisting injuries. Decker was limited by his shoulder injury on Wednesday and Thursday, while Sewell missed Wednesday’s practice and was limited on Thursday.