Lions training camp: Notes from Tuesday's practice

The Detroit Lions returned to work on Tuesday for a padded practice. Former Lions Greg Landry and Mel Farr were in attendance, and you can check out some notes from the session below.

Offense

• Dylan Gandy and Jason Fox got the first-team reps at right guard and right tackle on Tuesday. As has been the case as of late, Larry Warford later got some first-team reps of his own at right guard.
  
  
• Per Carlos Monarrez, Kellen Moore and Thaddeus Lewis were "getting plenty of throws" on Tuesday, likely to get them ready for Friday's preseason opener.
  
  
• According to Chris McCosky, Montell Owens was "popping people" during a run drill.
  
  
• LaAdrian Waddle apparently did quite well in his matchup with Ziggy Ansah.

  LaAdrian Waddle had 2 good reps against Ziggy Ansah with the 2s

  — Dave Birkett (@davebirkett) August 6, 2013

  Didn't see if it was first or second play, but UDFA OT LaAdrian Waddle just stonewalled Ziggy Ansah. #Lions

  — Josh Katzenstein (@jkatzenstein) August 6, 2013

  
  
• The offensive line in general seemed to do quite well on Tuesday.

  First team offensive line fared pretty well and 1 on 1s today. Fox had 2 good reps vs Jason Jones

  — Dave Birkett (@davebirkett) August 6, 2013

  
  
• When all else fails, throw the ball to Calvin Johnson.

  Three reps for offense trying to get out of 3rd and long on goal line and 3 times Stafford to Johnson for 1st down. That works. #lionscamp

  — Tim Twentyman (@ttwentyman) August 6, 2013

Defense

• Hmm ...

  Tahir Whitehead jokingly says Ashlee Palmer was won the OLB job. Not sure about that. But Palmer did get last padded practice w/1s today.

  — Carlos Monarrez (@cmonarrez) August 6, 2013

  
  
• Louis Delmas was in a great mood on Tuesday.

  Louis Delmas in full pads and in a good mood. Went out of bounds during drill, stopped and joked with fans. #Lions

  — Kevin Seifert (@espn_nfcnblog) August 6, 2013

  
  
• Delmas likes how "feisty" and "fast" the Lions' young cornerbacks are.

Special teams

• It sounds like Sam Martin may be the favorite to be the Lions' kickoff specialist.
  
  
• Based on what Dave Birkett tweeted on Tuesday, it doesn't sound like the fake field goals the Lions ran in practice went very well.

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