Injury prone Stanton is...done for the season

[xanadu]

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

[Glenn]

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

[WTFchris]

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

[Wizzle]

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

[Glenn]

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

[xanadu]

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?

[MoTown]

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?

[xanadu]

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.

[MoTown]

My bad. Sarcasm is a strange language to me.

[Zekyl]

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.