Rebuilding, re-tooling, reimagining: it’s what any team in the NFL with a franchise quarterback is doing each and every year—all to varying degrees of success with some more assembly required for certain teams.
The Detroit Lions have been rebuilding on the fly for as long as the team knew it had their guy in Matthew Stafford, but that’s just the nature of the beast. From Calvin Johnson to Golden Tate to Marvin Jones Jr. to Kenny Golladay, Stafford has been provided with his fair share of dynamic wideouts in his career, but it hasn’t been enough.