I’m with you on that. My hope is they make the 53 and are dressed on game days. I’d consider that good progress for sorsdal. I have higher expectations for bromart. He needs to at least be depth. It shouldn’t take more than 3 seasons to be effective at nose. At least enough to get some reps.
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Bro will be battling me for my spot in line at the Golden Corral.
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never bought into Bromart, wtf has he done-to me we need to send him packing and get a playmaker instead of him-it will better the team. hell you can’t count on “Bromart” .
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Oh well. You win some, you lose some.
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Lions are actively shopping Bromart & Sorsdal?
Can’t say I am surprised… neither has done anything to earn a spot IMO.
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Zero expectations.
They are both soft.
Put them out of their misery.
Whether they stay or go wouldn’t it be up to Dan Campbell??
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Sorsdal’s had two years fully healthy, learning under Hank Fraley and working behind guys like Ragnow and Sewell, but Mahogany beat him out after missing all of camp and only practicing a few weeks. After three training camps and two full seasons of practice I don’t think you can carry him for his potential anymore because it should have turned into actual ability by that point, so I think he really has to earn a roster spot rather than one being saved for him. It might be that he’s just not made for playing in the NFL, which is fine, as a 5th round pick that’s not an unusual outcome at all.
Martin I think is slightly different in that taking him in the 3rd round would suggest that Brad thinks he has a much higher ceiling than Sorsdal so they might have a little more patience there. His first year was all about fundamentals and getting muscle built up in the right parts of his body. He lost half of year two to injury, although he did have a full camp, but you could basically call last year his rookie year in a lot of ways. If he shows some kind of progress, then I think he’ll make the roster, even if he’s still low on the depth chart.
It’s worth remembering that several players have had similar paths and come good. Iffy was switched from CB to Safety and had numerous injury problems, but when he did get a run of games in his third year he balled out. Barnes was rough in his first two seasons but balled out in year three. Jamo did next to nothing in year one, not much more in year two and then balled out in year three. Rodrigo was a high effort liability in year one, dropped to special teams in year two but played pretty well at LB last season in his third year. Anzalone also struggled his first two years with the Lions (although that might have been because of the lack of talent around him) and then stepped up big time in his third year in Detroit. All of them broke out to some extent in year three, which shows that the team has patience, and that the coaching staff are good at developing players. Sorsdal and Martin are both moving into year three.
At the end of the day, both of them need to show improvement in camp. My expectations are low, but my hopes are high because this staff does have the pedigree for developing players.
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I was lead to believe the exact wording was “they can be had, if you want them…the experiment has run it’s course”
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Agree, expectations for both are low. 53er roster should be a surprise for both maybe even Manu will play earlier (and better) than Sorsdal.
I would bet there won’t be any “protected status” any more for either of them. If they’re on the 53, it’ll be because they earned it
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This is where I get to. They will have every opportunity to earn their way onto the 53. If they do not, I would think they would see the PS. If camp is particularly bad, they won’t even see that.
The good news is that their futures are in their hands. Of course, the bad news is that their futures are in their hands.
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That surprises me
I need a clue as to when this is a media-inspired (not naming names) take and vs a comment from inside.
Sorsdal I believe will make the 53 no problem.
Lions typically keep 9-11 OL.
Theres currently only 6 absolute locks right now. And i dont see the Lions bringing in 3 solid OL to bump him out.
I just want to see improvement to be a solid backup.
BroMart however. 5 games and 53 snaps in 2 years? Out of a possible 38 games and ~2500 snaps. Thats horrible. Especially with all the DL injuries they had last year. He got passed over a lot.
If he doesnt show up in camp. He may be gone.
Lions have 8 DL roster locks right now. His only saving grace is that Mac will start the year on the PUP. If the DL was fully healthy i think hed be gone.
It was a game which I can’t remember but bromart quit on a play. Maybe the knee was bothering him. But he never returned to the game. This was after the preseason knee injury
I dunno bruh. What has Sorsdal shown on the field in two years? I think we drafted him because an OL guru was real high on him. But it seems that the guru was looking for strength and leverage rather than movement skills, and you have to be mobile to play OL for the Lions. To me, Sorsdal is the more likely cut as the OL depth ahead of him is Manu, Skipper, and Niese. I guess we haven’t signed Awosika yet, but he has shown ALOT more than Sorsdal, no/? And there’s Kingsley and Muti and anyone we draft, too. I’d be surprised if Sorsdal survived, but i guess the best news in the world for him was that Zeitler didn’t re-sign.
Bro Mart has been one of the biggest surprises for me out of drafts from Holmes
His combination of attitude and physical attributes had me thinking that he would be much further along in this process
I am with some of you, in not having as much faith in him as I used to, and I’m also remembering the last time I gave up on a Brad Holmes draft pick… And that was Levi. I was also starting to give up on iffy
For those reasons, I am willing to give him another year to wait and see
For whatever reason, I don’t have as much faith in Vidor in sword so as I do, BroMart