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Sunday’s NFC North tilt between the 5-0 Minnesota Vikings and the 4-1 Detroit Lions won’t be only a matchup for divisional supremacy or a possible playoff preview. It will also be a showdown between two former top draft picks, quarterbacks Jared Goff and Sam Darnold. Goff, who was picked first, and Darnold, selected third, were discarded by their original teams before they found homes with their current squads.
The trade more or less lived up to the middling expectations for Detroit initially. Goff wasn’t great his first year with the Lions, going 3-10-1 and throwing only 19 touchdowns, the fewest since his rookie season. He did have some luck, however. Detroit, which had the No. 7 pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, chose not to select a quarterback after three were taken before that slot. The Lions didn’t select one in 2022, either, in a QB-poor draft that had only one taken in the first round.
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