Injured!

Big surprize, drafting Stanton in the 2nd round is ever more questionable now!

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2007/07/stanton_will_have_knee_surgery.html

Fuck....

Maybe O'Sullivan and Orlovsky both make the roster now.

Maybe while he's rehabbing the knee he can perfect how to hold the ball and learn the playbook. That's pretty much all we can hope for at this point. We all know the Martz offense is more mental than physical. Stanton wasn't going to play as a rookie, so hopefully he still gets all the same mental learning out of this season. I know he talks a lot about muscle memory when it comes to changing his delivery, but I think he'll still have plenty of time to get that worked out before he has to ever throw a pass in a game.

Since he knows he's not going to be playing this year, maybe they elected for the surgery knowing it wasn't going to do much and it was better to do that than just rehabing. Maybe if he was competing for a starting spot it would have been just a rehab stint. I'm not sure exactly how serious it is.

He's only supposed to be out a month, not the whole year. I agree he wasn't going to play anyway, though the preseason games would have been nice to get his feet wet.

Who knows, maybe the Lions will have a terrible year and near the end of the season he'll be used on special teams.

Who knows, maybe the Lions will have a terrible year and near the end of the season he'll be used on special teams.
Maybe they'll play him as a cover corner, or line him up at WLB........

Who cares, Stanton will never be anything in this city, we might as well have signed Woody Dantzler or Eric Crouch instead of wasting a 2nd rd pick on an overrated player like Stanton

this organization has to stop acting like they can turn chicken shit into chicken salad...

Gotta disagree on that one. Maybe he doesn't turn into something great here, but he's got all the tools to do it and I think Martz can at least get him on the right track. He'll be a starter in this league unless something unpredictable happens (i.e. career altering injury). It will take him some time, but he'll get there.

Maybe they'll play him as a cover corner, or line him up at WLB........

Did State ever do that with him? Hopefully you picked up the fact that I was ripping how State used him in (I think) a bowl game early in his career.

I hear he's got better hands than mcCown if we need another wr.

The Lions made room for Johnson on the roster by placing quarterback Drew Stanton -- a rookie second-round pick out of Michigan State -- on injured reserve, meaning he's out for the season. Stanton had arthroscopic knee surgery earlier in the week.

LOL@Millen

Stanton sounded surprised about it too. I don't get it.

They are pretty pleased with Dan O. and JT O'Sullivan in camp so this was their way out of having to cut one.

I'm guessing that the stuff that was written about him struggling to pick up the offense has some merit, too.

I'm guessing that the stuff that was written about him struggling to pick up the offense has some merit, too.

Considering the local media's tendency to oversell the lions, any negative rookie report had to mean he sucked pretty hard. Even if he learned the offense I don't see stanton's upside potential as an improvement over Jon Kitna. Occasionally, he'll play well, but would anyone trust him not to make the crucial turnover in the fourth quarter with the game on the line?

Occasionally, he'll play well, but would anyone trust him not to make the crucial turnover in the fourth quarter with the game on the line?


Isn't that what Kitna does though?

Isn't that what Kitna does though?

That was my point. Stanton was the college equivalent of kitna, his meltdowns are legendary. Unfortunately, I think stanton's best case scenario is an injury-prone Kitna IMO, which is a further indictment on millen.

My bad. Sarcasm is a strange language to me.

Did State ever do that with him? Hopefully you picked up the fact that I was ripping how State used him in (I think) a bowl game early in his career.
I was ripping on the Lions use of McCown actually.