Lions vs. Giants live score updates, highlights, injury news

Providing live score updates and highlights for the Detroit Lions’ Week 11 matchup against the New York Giants.

Can the Detroit Lions make the playoffs? Yeah, sure. Mathematically, it’s more than possible. Technically an 11-6 season is still in play, and that would be more than enough for the Lions to punch their first postseason ticket since 2016.

That, obviously, seems like a long-shot, though. Detroit may be on a two-game winning streak, but they got by in both games by the skin of their teeth to win against teams with a collective 7-14 record. If they’re going to convince doubters that they have a legitimate shot at the postseason, they need a better resume than that.

This week provides just that opportunity, as Detroit is in New York Jersey to take on the surprisingly 7-2 New York Giants. Winning on the road in the NFL is always tough. Winning against a Giants team who continually finds ways to win late and rarely makes mistakes is going to be a whole different monster for the Lions.

Despite that fact, the majority of people on the Pride of Detroit staff are picking the Lions to win on Sunday.

This will be a live-updating post while the Week 11 game between the Lions and Giants is ongoing. Generally speaking, this post will update after each team’s possession. In order to see the updates, just refresh throughout the afternoon. After the game has concluded, this post will turn into a full recap with highlights.

The game is scheduled to kick off at 1 p.m. ET. Join us then.

First quarter

The Lions won the toss and deferred, giving the Giants the ball first. Detroit’s defense got a quick opportunity to get off the field on third-and-7, and Alim McNeill burst through the middle of the line for the sack and quick three-and-out.

The Lions offense picked up a first down on the ground, and then picked up a key first down on a roughing the passer after failing to pick up a third down. A Jared Goff sneak picked up the subsequent third down, pushing Detroit into field goal territory. Detroit got down inside the Giants’ 10-yard line, but on a fourth-and-2, Dan Campbell opted to kick a field goal. 3-0 Lions.

The Giants offense continued to move in no-huddle, and found themselves in a key fourth-and-1 at midfield. New York converted on a jet sweep, setting up a first down at Detroit’s 44-yard line. On the next set of downs, Campbell made an interesting decision to decline a holding penalty, giving the Giants a third-and-7 rather than a second-and-19. New York ended up converting, and eventually moved it inside the Lions’ 10-yard line. A few plays later, Giants quarterback Daniel Jones danced into the end zone on a designed run, giving New York a 6-3 Giants lead after a missed extra point (deflected by John Cominsky).

Detroit’s offense looked like they were quickly going to go three-and-out after their first down quick screen was blown up for a 3-yard loss. But Kalif Raymond caught a third-and-long screen, got on his feet and ran for a first down. Lions starting right guard Evan Brown was injured on the play, with Dan Skipper replacing him. Brown was officially labeled as questionable to return with an ankle injury.

After a Jared Goff misfired and a 1-yard run from Williams, Detroit faced a third-and-9 going into the second quarter.

Second quarter

Goff scrambled for a first down, but it was called back on a holding penalty on Penei Sewell. A personal foul on Jonah Jackson pushed the Lions even further back, eventually leading to a punt.

Detroit continued to bottle up Saquon Barkley—he had just 11 yards on his first eight carries—but Jones was proving to be the bigger threat, both with his legs and his arm. Jones picked up 9 yards on one run and another 7 on a third-and-3. He also nicely got the Giants out of a second-and-long with a completion to Kenny Golladay. Detroit eventually got a stop, though, after coverage forced a throwaway from Jones. The Giants punted with Raymond making a fair catch at his own 8-yard line.

On that drive, Jeff Okudah left the game with an injury, and was shortly declared OUT for the rest of the game as he entered concussion protocol.

Detroit’s offense with three-and-out due to a couple of critical errors from D’Andre Swift. On second down, he caught a pass and had enough yardage for a first down, but fumbled and lost an extra 2 yards. They gave him the ball on third-and-1 on a sweep play, but Swift took too long to cut upfield and came up 2 yards short.

But rookie Aidan Hutchinson got the Lions offense the ball back in a hurry with this impressive fingertip interception:

A few plays later, Jamaal Williams punched it in to give the Lions a 10-6 Lions lead.