Calvin Johnson on his fourth annual charity golf outing
Calvin Johnson speaks at his foundation’s celebrity golf outing at The Cardinal at Saint John’s on Monday, June 15, 2026.
The Detroit Lions have a top-10 quarterback, per a league survey.
ESPN released its annual crowdsourced positional rankings for NFL quarterbacks on Monday, July 13, with results based on votes from NFL executives, coaches and scouts. For the third year in a row, Lions quarterback Jared Goff appeared in the top 10, placing at No. 9 in the 2026 rankings.
“Goff’s last two years stack up well against just about any other quarterback,” writes ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. “Only four quarterbacks have more 4,500-yard passing seasons than Goff’s five — [Drew] Brees, [Tom] Brady, Matt Ryan and Peyton Manning. That’s quite the class for Goff, whose consistent Pro Bowl performance has overshadowed the Rams discarding him for [Matthew] Stafford in 2021.”
The Lions finished 9-8 in 2025 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2023, but Goff was not seen as a big reason for the team’s descent from a 15-2 season in 2024. His 105.5 passer rating and 34 passing touchdowns were the second-highest marks of his career (111.8 rating and 37 touchdowns in 2024), while the 10-year quarterback made his fifth Pro Bowl and third with the Lions.
Goff finished No. 8 in ESPN’s quarterback rankings from 2025 and ninth in the 2024 rankings, while finishing higher than all NFC quarterbacks except for Stafford (No. 3) and Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott (No. 6). Chicago’s Caleb Williams was the only other NFC North quarterback to finish in the top 10 (at No. 10), while Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love finished as an honorable mention.
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