Riding high off a solid performance in Friday’s preseason loss to the Browns, cornerback 
Young swiftly and quickly brought the rookie cornerback back down to earth. Young put an outside move on Bentley and easily separated from Bentley on a dig route. He then came back a few plays later and completely spun Bentley in a circle while making another easy catch on an out route.
Bentley shouldn’t feel too bad though. Young’s been making a lot of Lions cornerbacks look bad in training camp.
Young was back at practice Monday and continuing to impress after missing Friday’s preseason game and Sunday’s practice due to the birth of his son.
Titus Demetrius Young Jr. was born at 5:59 a.m. Saturday morning in California and weighed seven pounds 13 ounces and measured 19 inches long, according to the proud father.
Young has looked good through the first two weeks of training camp. In fact, since he returned to the practice field a week after reportedly punching teammate
It's easy to see why a lot of people have pegged Young as one of the team's breakout stars in 2012.
A hamstring injury kept Young out of training camp for an extended period of time last year and contributed some to a slow start his rookie season.
He came on strong towards the end of last year and finished with a solid number - 48 catches for 607 yards and six touchdowns. Not nearly good enough numbers, though, according to Young.
“I was actually looking at film the other day and I don’t really like (how I played as a rookie),” he said. “I thought that I was better than (what I showed).
“When I look back at it now it just makes me want to work even harder because, when we turn on film from the teams we played before and we show the other rookies and other receivers on film, I kind of want them to turn it off because it’s just not as polished as I want it to be. It’s just a lesson learned that there’s always room to improve.”
Young looks to have done just that this offseason and he says he’s slowly been building trust between himself and offensive coordinator Scott Linehan over the last year, to the point that Young expects to be a big part of Linehan’s offensive plan this season.
“He told me that I was basically the X-factor,” Young said of Linehan. “You have to build that (trust) and throughout the whole year and the offseason I feel like I’ve been building his trust. We’ve been able to communicate better and he’s been able to let me know what he really wants out of me and it’s a joy to come to work every day (when) your coach is excited about what you can do.”
Linehan told detroitlions.com early this offseason that he already had some big plans for Young within the offense this season.
“To me, he might be the biggest match-up (advantage) we can continue to grow with the way people defend Calvin,” Linehan said.
“When he gets on the outside part of the field, he can get behind the defense, and if you have that opposite a player like Calvin, that’s really when you got something. We’re just scratching the surface right now. A lot of guys are fast, but they aren’t sudden. He’s a rare combination of speed and quickness. He just gets open.“
Bentley found that out the hard way during Monday’s practice.
Young said the next step for him is more than just taking advantage of the one-on-one coverage he’s expected to see opposite Johnson this year and filling the box score with big statistics.
While the Lions won’t mind if he does, Young said his goal is to get to a point in the offense where he can reciprocate and help Johnson get open by attracting coverage.
“I’m going to work just as hard so I can prepare myself to be in his situation one day,” Young said. “Every day he gives me a reminder of the things I do well and the things I’m not doing well and we have a group of guys that are always accountable.”
Young seems to have matured since that incident back in May. It appears that he now understands his importance to the offense and to the team's success this year.
“Well, he’s an important part of our plans,” Lions head coach Jim Schwartz said of Young. “You know, (having a) breakout (season) and everything else, I mean that’s all relative as we go through the year. The whole object is to score points, operate efficiently on offense, win games and he’s a guy that can help us do that.
