Detroit has spent the season with Hendon Hooker as Goff's backup, with Jake Fromm on the practice squad as the Lions' emergency quarterback. Hooker, a third-round pick out of Tennessee in 2023, has never made an NFL start and has only thrown nine regular-season passes. Fromm made two starts with the Giants in 2021 but didn't show any promise.

Teddy Bridgewater nearly lost as much any other NFL quarterback ever has. A catastrophic knee injury suffered in practice was so gruesome, his surgeon compared it to a war wound. His career wasn't jus