Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford told ESPN’s “Mike and Mike in the Morning” Tuesday that he had an inkling early on last season that Calvin Johnson was leaning toward retirement.
“It’s going to be a different game without him, obviously” Stafford said. “Teams treated him way different than they do other receivers in the league.”
But, like everyone else in Allen Park, Stafford has moved on and is using this training camp as a opportunity to find new things this Lions offense can be good at.
Now entering his eighth NFL season, and his first without Megatron, he said he’s enjoying the competition that’s developing at receiver thus far in training camp.