Detroit Free Press sports writers Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez offer their perspective on the Lions' 2016 NFL draft class April 30, 2016.
There is one moment that I can’t seem to forget.
It happened last October in Minnesota. I was standing outside the Lions’ locker room, and quarterback Matthew Stafford walked slowly, gingerly, down the hallway. Pain shot across his face and it looked like it hurt to breathe. He was going to get X-rays on his chest and ribs after the Lions lost, 26-16, to the Vikings.
Minnesota had turned Stafford into a battered piñata: He had been hit eight times, although he was sacked just once.