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What Lions' rookie Tyleik Williams liked and disliked about debut performance

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Justin Rogers
Sep 11, 2025
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Allen Park — In the minutes leading up to the kickoff of the Detroit Lions' season opener last weekend, defensive tackle Tyleik Williams battled the jitters any normal human being might heading into their first real day on the job.

Reasonably, who wouldn’t when that performance is taking place in front of more than 77,000 in attendance — nearly double the population of his hometown, Manassas, Virginia — and watched on television by an average of 24 million around the country?

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