The Detroit Lions may be getting ready to flip their star tackle to the blind side.
General manager Brad Holmes said this week that moving three-time All-Pro right tackle Penei Sewell to left tackle is very much on the table following the release of Taylor Decker this offseason.
“I think that’s the beauty of having a player like him, you always have that flexibility of the possibility of him playing left tackle,” Holmes said on the Lions Collective podcast. “He’s done it before. It’s not anything foreign to him. So even as we’re going through free agency, we weren’t really pigeonholed like, ‘We’ve got to get a left tackle.’ We were just like, ‘What’s the best tackle for us?'”
Sewell started the first eight games of his 2021 rookie season at left tackle before moving to the right side, where he has developed into one of the best in the league at the position.
The Lions also signed veteran tackle Larry Borom to a one-year, $5 million deal. Holmes praised what he saw from Borom at right tackle during 11 starts with Miami last season, which could signal that Sewell shifts left while Borom holds down the right side.
“Seeing what he did at Miami, especially at right tackle, and you start looking at the film, it’s like, ‘Man, this is probably about the most consistent ball that I’ve seen him play,'” Holmes said.
Holmes added that while he would never say never on a reunion with Decker, who remains a free agent, he has not had any recent dialogue about bringing the veteran back to Detroit.
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