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The Lions’ top running back is going to be out for a while — but not as long a while as some feared.After medical tests today Jarrad Davis Jersey White , Kerryon Johnson is considered week to week with a knee sprain, a league source tells PFT.Considering that the Lions play on Thanksgiving, we can safely say he won’t play in that game, and maybe won’t play a few more weeks beyond Thursday. But any time a running back limps off the field with a knee injury there are fears that it could be something more serious, and those fears have been assuaged.Still, any game without Johnson is a game in which the Lions’ running attack may be nonexistent. Johnson has single-handedly given the Lions a running attack this season: Johnson has averaged 5.4 yards a carry, while the Lions’ other running back Womens Frank Ragnow Jersey , LeGarrette Blount, has averaged 2.3 yards a carry.So the Lions are going to have a tough time running the ball on Thursday against the Bears. But at least they’re not worried about the long-term health of their promising rookie runner. ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Rick Forzano, who was the coach of the Detroit Lions during the mid-1970s and hired a young Bill Belichick to work on his staff, has died. He was 90.The Lions said Thursday night that Forzano’s family confirmed his death. He died Wednesday.Forzano coached the Lions for the 1974 and 1975 seasons, plus the first four games in 1976. He went 15-17.“Rick was a wonderful man and we are truly saddened by the news of his passing,” Lions owner Martha Firestone Ford said in a statement. “On behalf of me Sam Martin Jersey White , my family and the Lions organization, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the entire Forzano family.”Forzano was also the head coach at Connecticut (1964-65) and Navy (1969-72).Forzano’s staffs in Detroit included future NFL head coaches Raymond Berry, Joe Bugel and Jerry Glanville. After graduating from Wesleyan, Belichick was a special assistant with the Baltimore Colts in 1975. He then joined Forzano’s staff with the Lions.“He’s coaching guys that, he’s younger than they are,” Forzano said in 2017 for an NFL Films video about him and Belichick. “But they just accepted him.”Belichick was an assistant special teams coach for Detroit. He would also coach tight ends and receivers for the Lions before joining the Denver Broncos‘ staff in 1978.Born in Akron, Ohio T.J. Jones Jersey , Forzano graduated from Kent State in 1951. He coached high school for five years before a college coaching career that included stops as an assistant at Wooster (1956), Kent State (1957-58) and Navy (1959-63).In between his head coaching jobs at UConn and Navy, he was an NFL assistant with St. Louis and Cincinnati. He joined the Lions as an assistant in 1973 before becoming their head coach.