5 winners and 3 losers from Lions win over Colts, Detroit needs its starting corners back as soon as possible

The Detroit Lions handled their business on the road again with a 24-6 win over the Indianapolis Colts. It was one of the best defensive game we've seen this year for the most part. We've got 0 winners and 0 losers. Let's get into it. 

Winners

Alim McNeill

This game was clinic by McNeill. He didn't get any sacks, but he brought it with the pressures and disrupted Anthony Richardson's throws all day. It was a solid interior game for him. f Richardson isn't mobile, McNeill walks out with a sack for sure. 

Za'Darius Smith

This game showed exactly what Smith can do for this team. He had five pressures, four hurries and a hit. That hit was the big one becasue the Colts had designed a nice offense on the first drive of the game and they had a man in the end zone for a touchdown. Smith hit Richardson as he threw it and caused the ball to sail out of the end zone. He's an impact player for sure. 

Tim Patrick

One of the big things that the Lions needed to do this offseason was replace Josh Reynolds ability to get catches for first downs. Patrick has done that for sure. This season he has 19 catches and 11 of those went for first downs. Three of them came in this game. He is just a really solid pickup by the Lions. 

Jahmyr Gibbs

We really got to see some hard running from Gibbs in this one. We're used to the flashiness, but seeing him work in tight spaces and lower the shoulder really showed a lot. The Colts did a pretty good job of stopping the run in this game, but Gibbs still got through with 90 yards and a touchdown.

Jared Goff

The Colts did everything they could to get pressure on Goff and move him off his spot. They succeeded. This was not a solid day for the Lions offensive line. They gave up 18 pressures in total. Still, Goff managed to get some tough throws off and keep his composure. He completed 72.2% of his passes in this game. 

Losers

Kindle Vildor

I know there's some Lions fans that are super happy to celebrate this downfall because in September in suggested he split reps with Arnold for two games while Arnold worked on his penalty problem after eight of them in three games. 

Vildor was really bad in this game. There's no way around it. He's shown to be a good special teams player and good rotational guy. Starting might be a problem though. He gave up three catches for 61 yards in the first half. 

He did clean things up in the second half and didn't allow any catches, but he needs to work on his technique and try to keep up out there. The Lions also need to hope they can get Arnold and Davis back for Thursday because they need them badly. 

Sam LaPorta

A rough one for LaPorta. He had a bad drop early on and then was out of place on some other stuff. Plus he struggled with blocking both the pass and the run. We know he's good, but you have to wonder when he snaps out of the sophomore slump. 

Frank Ragnow

Ragnow has had an All-Pro season if you ask me, but this is a little blip on his radar. He allowed three pressures and two quarterback hits in this game. The Colts really wanted to attack the interior and they concentrated a lot of effort on Ragnow.