Hendon Hooker said he is on track to be ready for the start of this NFL season, but the Lions likely are thinking more about 2024.
The Lions selected Hooker — who is recovering quickly from a torn ACL in his left knee suffered in November and expects to be fully cleared for action by Sept. 1 — in the third round of the NFL draft on Friday night and set up a potential quarterback succession plan to Jared Goff.
The only other quarterback on the Detroit depth chart is Nate Sudfeld, so Hooker can slide in as the rookie No. 2 and perhaps take over as soon as the 2024 season when there is no guaranteed money remaining on Goff’s contract.Hooker wasn’t about to push Goff — who resurrected his once-flailing career as a Pro Bowler in leading the Lions to a 9-8 record this past season — out the door.
Goff was the No. 1 overall pick in 2015 and led the Rams to Super Bowl LIII, in which they lost to the Patriots in February 2019, but he was traded to the Lions for Matthew Stafford before the 2021 season. “He’s been in the league for a long time,” Hooker told local reporters of Goff, “and he’s been doing a great job of developing every year … and that’s all you can ask for. I’m definitely going to be picking his brain.”
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