Sam LaPorta Return: Lions Training Camp Outlook

Sam LaPorta will miss most of the offseason while recovering from back surgery, but Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell said he hopes the tight end can return to the field sometime next summer.

“I feel like next year, that’s certainly an off the table, early in the year,” Campbell said. “You’d like to believe training camp we’ll get him, but you’re talking about a back. And he’s improving but yet, he’s not completely healed.”