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Through two games this season, opposing quarterbacks have thrown to a receiver covered by Detroit Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold 16 times. They have completed 11 passes for 176 yards and one touchdown for a passing-efficiency rating of 126.0.<\/p>\n
For players who have been targeted at least 16 times in coverage through the first two weeks of the NFL season, only one has yielded a higher passing-efficiency rating than Arnold.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel great about TA,\u201d Lions coach Dan Campbell said about Arnold on Saturday. \u201cHere\u2019s what I love: Listen, he goes to work, man, and he does not lack confidence. He acknowledges, like, \u2018Hey, man, I can be better, and I will be better.\u2019 And he goes out there and works at it in practice. It\u2019s like anybody else, man, any other player at any other position. It just happens to be those guys get on an island a lot. It\u2019s like your quarterback, right? And everybody sees it.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there\u2019s plenty of things that go on that not everybody sees where we need guys to be better, and you just continue to work at it in practice and they do get better. So I\u2019m not worried about TA.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arnold is looking for better play as the season progresses.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hold myself to a high standard,\u201d Arnold said, \u201cand I know that my teammates hold me to a high standard, and my main thing is just going out there and trying to be the same every day and every game and just continuing to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arnold started 15 regular-season games and one playoff contest as a first-round rookie last season. The former Alabama defensive back formed the cornerback tandem with former Auburn standout Carlton Davis in 2024. Davis left for the New England Patriots in free agency during the offseason, and Detroit signed D.J. Reed to take his place for 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would just say it\u2019s early,\u201d Arnold said. \u201cLike, I was even talking to (defensive-backs coach Deshea Townsend), like, just getting used to playing with each other. And then like when we go out there and make mistakes, our coach reiterates it \u2013 like, you have to go out there as a DB and you have to make your opponent beat you.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike, in the NFL, it\u2019s a lot of shifts, a lot of motions, a lot of stacks and a lot of eye candy just to try to get you off your game. And when you really break down the tape, a lot of times we were getting beat by alignment or just communication, so when we go out there, we want to line up and really make other guys beat us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Detroit plays the Baltimore Ravens at 7:15 p.m. CDT Monday at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. ABC and ESPN will televise the game.<\/p>\n
Campbell said the Lions need to keep Ravens running back Derrick Henry from gashing their defense, and that will take support from Detroit\u2019s cornerbacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to take everybody,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cVery important, and really, look, everybody has got a load on them. But the corners, man, you got to play sticky coverage, you got to commit to the run, so you guys got to win your one-on- ones, but also there\u2019ll be times where you got to trigger in the run game, too. We\u2019re going to ask you to hold down some of this in the pass game, but you also got to be ready to come up and fill on Henry. We cannot let him get going. You give him a head of steam and he finds a crease, he\u2019s dangerous.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019re going to ask a lot of those guys, and they know the task ahead. But, listen, that\u2019s why those guys are here. It\u2019s why we drafted, it\u2019s why we acquired the guys we have from Reed to freaking Amik (Robertson) to TA. I can keep going across the board. That\u2019s why they\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arnold has 12 tackles this season after making 60 as a rookie. He had three missed tackles last season and hasn\u2019t had any this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you have a secondary that doesn\u2019t tackle, you can kind of measure how tough the team is,\u201d Arnold said. \u201cSo when me and DJ go out there, and even Amik, we just pride ourselves on saying, \u2018Hey, man, it\u2019s not going to be us.\u2019 Like, we\u2019re not going to show up on tape as the team that won\u2019t put our nose in there or we don\u2019t want to just show up as a team that looks soft physically. \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean even at Alabama, just playing in the SEC, like, that\u2019s one of the things that the SEC prides itself on is playing big-boy, physical football, whether that\u2019s 21 personnel, 23G, like just downhill running. And the corners have to tackle.\u201d<\/p>\n
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