... a list of Lions impact starters.

Matthew Stafford, Gosder Cherlius, Kevin Smith, Calvin Johnson, Grady Jackson, Sammie Lee Hill, Ernie Sims, and a handful of others populate the team's injured list, with various levels of practice participation between them.

Some will play, some will not.  We likely won't know which until Sunday.

This is the injured list heading into Sunday's game against the defending champion Pittsburgh Steelers.

So why am I not concerned?

Simple.

The Lions are almost certainly going to lose this game anyway. Starters or no starters, it's going to be very difficult to overcome this Steelers team, even though they've struggled thus far in the season.

What this is, instead, is a ...

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