Although Jared Goff is going into his third season as the Lions’ starter, Detroit has seen some quarterback turnover in recent days. Teddy Bridgewater joined the team late in the summer, and previous backup Nate Sudfeld landed on season-ending IR. Hendon Hooker landed on Detroit’s reserve/NFI list.
This leaves the Lions in need at the position — for the time being, at least — and a familiar face will step in. David Blough is re-signing with the Lions on a practice squad deal, Tom Pelissero of NFL.com tweets. Blough, who went to training camp with the Cardinals before his Tuesday release, was with the Lions from 2019 until his release last year.
Joining the Lions via trade from the Browns before his rookie season, Blough started five games in place of Matthew Stafford that year. The Purdue alum/Hard Knocks featured cast member backed up Stafford in 2020 as well and then started two games in relief of Goff in 2021. The Lions made a QB2 change after cutdown day last year, cutting Blough to sign Sudfeld. The latter was not needed for any starts last season and is now out out of the picture due to the knee injury.
After joining the Cardinals’ practice squad, Blough became a surprise late-season starter for the reeling team. Blough, 27, is 0-7 as a starter in his four-year career. He returns to Detroit after a new Arizona regime made a number of changes at quarterback.
With Kyler Murray on the reserve/PUP list, the Cardinals released Colt McCoy and traded for Joshua Dobbs. After carrying five quarterbacks in training camp, the Cards have only Dobbs and fifth-round rookie Clayton Tune on their active roster.
Blough is actually a quality starter (108.1 passer rating during the first quarter of games) but he gets progressively worse during the remaining quarters of play.
2019 Lions were also complete crap with like one weapon in Kenny Golladay who had a 1190 rec yard season, leading rusher was Kerryon Johnson with barely over 400, Marvin Jones missed 5 games, then it was Danny Amendola and a Rookie Hockensen. And last years cardinals… lol.
Blough ain’t a world beater, but he can be a guy who can toss a football more than 20 yards in an NFL setting and there’s maybe 100 people who can do that.
He’s fine as a 3rd stringer. Hope he doesnt play a snap this year.
But why?
Idk. Nfl is weird bro