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QOTW: What would Lions players do in a talent competition?

Question of the Week is a feature in which we take a cross-section of opinions from Detroit Lions players and coaches (and sometimes opponents) about a singular topic. Most of the time, they have nothing to do with football. Have a suggestion? Email: michael.rothstein@espn.com.

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ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Football players are often looked at as people singular talents -- guys who are good athletes and, well, maybe that's about it. Except more often than not, there is much more to what they are able to do.

A suggestion from reader Adam Miller of Forest Hills, New York led to this week's Detroit Lions Question of the Week: If you were in a Miss America-type talent competition, what would your talent be?

Here are their answers:

Running back Joique Bell: Playing an instrument, not sure which one, probably piano.

Can you play?

Bell: Little bit. I was about 8. By ear, though. Never took classes.

So how good are you?

Bell: I'm OK. Play a couple songs. Little bit of Beethoven. Little bit of Moonlight Sonata. I play a little modern.

When was the last time you played?

Bell: Whenever I see a piano laying around somewhere, I might hop on it, like a team hotel. During training camp, at the team hotel, I might get on the piano.

Have your teammates seen you do this?

Bell: Coach (Robert) Prince played a couple songs. I played with coach Prince. He played a couple songs. I played a couple. We went back and forth.


Cornerback Darius Slay: My dance moves, man. Besides my dance moves, what else. I can flip real good, backflips.

When did you start doing that?

Slay: I started doing that when I was freakin' 7. It's my genes. I could just go. I could flip real good. My step-dad taught me. He taught me how to flip. Then ever since then I've taken it. When I got to about 20, I stopped flipping, but I could still do it with no problem.

If you ever scored a touchdown, is that your celebration?

Slay: They wouldn't flag me for that, would they? Ain't see too many people just flip in the end zone, but if somebody do it first (and don't get fined), I'll do it second. Test it out.


Offensive tackle Cornelius Lucas: I can play percussion, like snare drum, bass drum. I was in the band before, like in middle school, before I found my calling in football.

You still play?

Lucas: I got no time for that. I gave it up after I found football. Like seventh, eighth grade. I started it around fifth grade, played with it until I got to middle school, end of seventh grade.


Defensive end George Johnson: I'd say making jokes, probably. I usually just kind of think of something on the fly and it just comes out.

Have you ever thought of doing an open mic night?

Johnson: Nah, well, yeah, in high school. (Never for real, though), I know I'd be bad at it.


Wide receiver Corey Fuller: Juggling. I taught myself how to juggle this summer. I just have that type of brain where if I really want to learn something, really want to learn how to do it, I'm going to do it. So I worked out this summer at a gym, same gym I was training at as a kid and he had these lacrosse balls. He had some lacrosse players but we used them more for massaging, things like that. But one day I picked up three balls and was like, "How in the world can you juggle three balls?" I didn't know how to do two. So I just stayed with it and I stayed after to help him coach a little bit and as I'm walking around I'm juggling two balls and threw the other one in randomly and taught myself how to juggle.

My other one is to play the piano. I don't really know how to play it. I just played it once and I think I can play it.

What did you play?

Fuller: I don't know.

So how do you know you can play the piano and not just bang keys?

Fuller: I was actually playing something. I heard it to my ears, we recorded it and everything. I want to get a piano so I can learn how to play it. But then I got some lessons from my aunt so she taught me some things. So I played it twice. This summer.


Punter Sam Martin: I hate questions like that because I realize I'm not good at anything like that. Have no hobbies. No B.S., either, I don't have a cool talent. I would have to figure something out.


Cornerback Cassius Vaughn: Being a comedian.


Wide receiver Jeremy Ross: I am Jeremy Ross and my talent is freestyling. I'm good at it. I don't really work at it but it's just something I do. I've been doing it since I was a kid. Me and my friends, we were always freestyling, so it's just the culture I grew up in, hip-hop and rapping being so much of an influence on us as kids. We just, it's just our culture. We do it all the time.


Defensive tackle Caraun Reid: Oh dang. I would probably sing. Either Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come," or something I can dance, show a little moves. A big man who can move a little bit, that's always a plus. So "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)," by Michael Jackson.


Quarterback Kellen Moore: Holy cow. I would not be in the talent show. A 3-point shooting contest?