The Lions came into Monday night’s game against the Buccaneers missing their top two safeties, their top two cornerbacks and a few other defensive backs, but turning to the next men up turned out just fine.

Amik Robertson, Rock Ya-Sin, Erick Hallett, Arthur Maulet, Nick Whiteside, Thomas Harper, Loren Strickland, and Tre Flowers all saw snaps in the secondary and their work helped hold the Bucs to a season-low point total in Detroit’s 24-9 win. Maulet had an interception, Robertson forced a fumble, and Whiteside had a pair of key pass breakups while playing behind a front seven that produced four sacks of Baker Mayfield.

“I told those guys, man, after the game, how proud I was of them,” Robertson said, via Benjamin Raven of MLive.com. “Every single last one of them — Whiteside, Harpe

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