Snuck right after Sunday’s bombshell that the Detroit Lions have agreed to terms with defensive back Chauncey Gardner-Johnson was a somewhat significant special teams move made by the team. According to several reports, the Lions are signing long snapper Jake McQuaide to a one-year deal worth $1.3 million, including a $152,500 signing bonus.
McQuaide is a significant signing because the Lions had some trouble at long snapper last season, as outlined by Pride of Detroit special teams expert Hamza Baccouche in his free agent profile of current Lions long snapper Scott Daly:
It was a rollercoaster of a season for Daly.