Isiah Pacheco is now dealing with a back injury on top of his MCL sprain, with Dan Campbell unable to give a definitive answer on the running back’s Week 1 status. Campbell downplayed the MCL issue, but the combination of injuries is enough to put Pacheco’s availability and early season workload under serious scrutiny.

Pacheco owns a 90th-percentile Burst Score and 92nd-percentile College Dominator Rating on PlayerProfiler, but athletic metrics do not matter if he cannot get on the field. Pacheco is a draft fade until the injury picture clears, and Detroit’s workout of Kareem Hunt is a reminder that the Lions are not treating the backfield situation as settled.