The timing couldn’t have been worse. In a contract year.

But as Josh Paschal has come to grips with the spring back surgery that kept him out of the first nine games of the season, the fourth-year Detroit Lions defensive end has realized there’s plenty of time left to accomplish his goals.

“I believe that the Lord isn’t going to put me through this just to put me through it,” Paschal told the Free Press this week. “Unfortunately, it happened in my contract year, but at the end of the day adversity’s going to hit, it’s just how you respond. And so I chose to respond like this, going after it and getting after the work, and when I get back just making the most of the opportunity.”

Paschal underwent surgery to fix a disc problem in his back in May after initially trying to rehab an inj

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