The Detroit Lions made an empathic statement Sunday night, as they head into the postseason for the second consecutive year. With their commanding 31-9 victory over the Minnesota Vikings, the Lions are now NFC and Super Bowl favorites, and it took a full team effort to get there.
Here are my positional grades for the Lions’ iconic Week 18 performance.
Quarterback: B-
The one thing the Lions couldn’t do against the Vikings is turn the ball over, and Jared Goff did twice. The first, an attempted checkdown to Craig Reynolds, was the result of some panic.