ALLEN PARK >> The best-laid plans of Lions general manager Brad Holmes have often gone awry.

In his quest to bring a Super Bowl-caliber defense to Detroit, Holmes has had to deal with an unprecedented number of injuries to that side of the ball. Each week, a fresh batch of reinforcements arrives in Allen Park, ready to serve as a mercenary for a Lions defense that has so far held the line.

This past week, in a 34-31 walk-off win over the Green Bay Packers, the Lions had five defenders making their season debut: linebackers Jamal Adams, Kwon Alexander and Mitchell Agude and defensive linemen Myles Adams and Jonah Williams.

With a couple of days to digest the performance, Lions coach Dan Campbell — who nicknamed the defense “the Northern savages” after the game — gave rave reviews for the newly added defensive linemen on Monday.

“Myles and Jonah, I thought both had winning performances,” Campbell said. “I thought they went in there and battled and did their job.”

Myles Adams did some impressive work as both a pass rusher and run defender. He logged two pressures on eight pass-rush snaps with three combined tackles on just 11 run-defense snaps. Williams, meanwhile, had one pressure on 12 pass-rush snaps and a hit on the quarterback.

Alexander had two tackles, and Jamal Adams and Agude each added one.

Detroit allowed a season-high 31 points in the game, but they did just enough to win it and were hampered by short fields on multiple occasions. And with the Packers looking to take the lead on a scoring drive midway through the fourth quarter, linebacker Ezekiel Turner — who was playing his second game in a Lions uniform — corralled Packers quarterback Jordan Love on third down to force a field goal.

The collective performance of Detroit’s defense in the wake of significant injuries across the board continues to impress, and Campbell tipped his cap to Holmes for the success they’ve had amid an awfully tumultuous season, health-wise. More than a dozen players who were not on Detroit’s initial 53-man roster have taken snaps for the Lions’ defense.

“It was good to see and it’s exactly why Brad brought those guys in, because we felt like they fit what we’re about and what we need and we just need guys that are lunch-pail guys, hard hat, come in a give us a good day’s work, do what we ask you to do and go all out doing it, and just battle, just strain,” Campbell said Monday. “And I thought those guys did it.”

The Lions are hopeful that a few of the ailing defensive linemen will be ready to roll by the time the Buffalo Bills roll into town this Sunday. Buffalo’s offense ranks second in EPA per play (+0.14) and is coming off a 42-point performance in a loss at the Los Angeles Rams this past Sunday.

Regardless of who’s able to make their way back for the Lions, the team will continue relying on the newest faces in Detroit’s locker room.

“Now we need to take it a step further,” Campbell said. “Now that you guys are laying it on the line, you’re finishing, now we have to start getting a grasp of what we’re doing defensively and take the next step and the detailed part of this to where we don’t have a few plays that hurt us.”

Campbell said he expects improvement from last week to this week.

“We’re going to be better than we were last week, I believe that, and whether we don’t get anybody back or not, this will be another week in the system with (Jamal) Adams and Myles Adams and Jonah and Kwon, and so I know that they’ll be better,” Campbell said.

“But we’ll do whatever we have to, to win the game.”