Maybe the nicest thing the Packers could do for their fans is to trade Aaron Rodgers to a contender.
Lions are mammals, but when Detroit laid the NFL’s first goose egg in 2008, the reward was the perfect quarterback prospect. I’m not intending to overrate Matthew Stafford as a pro quarterback, only that few draft classes in league history have had prospects at the position who were the top-rated high schooler in the country, the top-rated freshman in the country, and the top-rated draft prospect after three years in school.
The Detroit Lions have never been to the Super Bowl and they’ve only even ever reached a conference championship game one time in the Super Bowl era, but Stafford is the franchise’s only number one pick since 1980.