Linebacker · Detroit Lions

Jimmy Rolder

No. 41 · Rookie

Rolder made it to camp. Then training camp took something back.

The fourth round is a complicated place to start. Not a headline pick, not an afterthought either — just a player who has to earn everything from the first day on. Jimmy Rolder showed up to Detroit Lions training camp as a rookie linebacker trying to do exactly that.

He didn't get far. An injury cut his camp short, and now Rolder is looking at a stretch on the sideline before he gets another real shot. The team described it as not severe, which is the kind of phrase that is both reassuring and incomplete at the same time.

For a rookie trying to get seen, time lost is opportunity lost. The Lions' roster will keep moving around him while he waits. Whether he gets back in the mix before the season matters in ways that go well beyond a depth chart.

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