Lions’ Mohamed Ibrahim having surgery in Baltimore hospital

Lions running back Mohamed Ibrahim was stretchered off the field today and taken directly to a Baltimore hospital, where he is having surgery.

The Lions announced that Ibrahim had a hip injury but have offered no further update on his condition. Coach Dan Campbell did say, however, that they expect Ibrahim to be OK.

“Mo’s in the hospital and he’s having surgery right now. It sounds like he’ll be OK but he’s going to stay here overnight. He’s tough. I hate that for him,” Campbell said.

Ibrahim was born and raised in Baltimore and he may have family there with him now. He signed this year as an undrafted free agent with the Lions and was playing in his first NFL game today against the Ravens. The kickoff return on which he was injured was the first time he touched the ball in his NFL career, and everyone will be rooting for him to make a complete recovery and get another opportunity.

Lions' Mo Ibrahim undergoes immediate surgery at hospital, will not travel with team - mlive.com

The Detroit Lions are still a good team. They’re just going back to reality.

When a team hasn’t had much luck for, say, half a century or has been consistently good at anything and then starts to win, it’s easy to get carried away. Most of us do. And when that sudden success begets headlines about possible Super Bowl runs, the reality of the climb can get blurry.

Well, Baltimore wiped the scum off the window. The view is clearer now, if not quite as rosy as it was last week.

But then that’s not so bad, either, because the perspective best used to view the Detroit Lions should come from August, back before these Lions were the national darlings of the NFL, when the hope—and expectation—was a divisional title and hosting a playoff game.

That’s all out there. Despite the 38-6 loss to the Ravens, Despite Jared Goff’s bad day, hey, they happen to every quarterback and, it turns out, to every team.