Detroit cornerback Morice Norris returned to the Lions’ facility two days after he was hospitalized in Atlanta after struggling an harm in a preseason sport 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 reduce quick the Lions’ preseason highway sport. He posted a narrative with the caption, “Amen Amen I’m all good man don’t stress it appreciate all the check ins and love.”
Then he reposted a publish from fellow Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold, who included a screenshot of a FaceTime name with a smiling Norris.
“My dawg [Morice] called me today,” Arnold wrote in his Instagram caption Saturday morning. “Sometimes we forget how precious life is and everything. That goes into playing this game that we love but we serve an almighty… God thanks for protecting my brother.”
After struggling an obvious head harm early within the fourth quarter of Friday’s preseason sport in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Norris was taken off the sector in an ambulance.
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Rather 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 movement in all his extremities.”
Norris, who signed with the Lions as an undrafted free agent out of Fresno State final yr, 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 harm throughout the fourth quarter at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Aug. 8, 2025, in Atlanta. (Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)
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While making a deal with, the second-year nook’s head appeared to hit the leg of Falcons working back Nathan Carter. After receiving about 20 minutes of medical employees consideration, which concluded with Norris being placed on a backboard — with his head and neck braced — he was evacuated to an Atlanta hospital.
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When the clock began working once more, gamers on the Falcons’ offense and Lions’ protection gathered in a circle, hand-in-hand with their heads bowed.
At the time the sport was referred to as, the Lions led, 17-10. But that was on nobody’s thoughts.
“Something like that happens, it puts things 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 in every single place.