ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Tim Wright is trying to count on his fingers how many offensive coordinators he’s played for. There were two in high school, and four in five seasons at Rutgers, and five more in the NFL. That’s 11. Not enough fingers.
Along the way, the Lions’ third-year tight end encountered five separate NFL playbooks with five separate philosophies and five ways to describe what some call a curl route.
“Spot, sit, hook, stick and break,” he says, as if rattling off a grocery list. “For some reason, that’s different everywhere you go.” That’s five different ways to say run 10 yards and turn around.