The Detroit Lions are playing more of their base defense under Kelvin Sheppard than they have before in the Dan Campbell era and that's affected the playing reps of nickel cornerback Amik Robertson.

Detroit played 54.5 percent of their defensive snaps last year in nickel defense, per Tru Media. That number is down to 37.6 percent the first three weeks of the season, which ranks 30th out of 32 teams. For comparison, Seattle leads the league playing nickel 84 percent of the time.

Robertson has played in 89 defensive snaps this season, just over half the defensive reps. The Lions want to see that number go up but don't necessarily want to change the way their playing defense right now.

"When you're able to deploy four and five linebacker sets and formations and play any of your defenses, t

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