On Saturday, August 24, the Detroit Lions defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 24-17 to complete their final preseason game of the 2024-25 season. Now, the powers that be must decide on their 53-man roster, which is already tight. Ahead of the final preseason game, head coach Dan Campbell stated that there were only “five or six” spaces remaining on the team’s final roster, indicating fierce competition for those final placements. Now, NFL experts and pundits are making their predictions for the 53-man roster, and one writer has a crazy guess about what Campbell and Brad Holmes will do to fill their final backup quarterback spots.
NFL expert thinks the Detroit Lions may bring on a new backup quarterback.
In his final Detroit Lions 53-man roster forecast for the 2024 regular season, released on August 24, Brad Berreman of SideLionReport.com analyzes who he believes will and will not make the cut. Berreman selected Jared Goff, Hendon Hooker, and a quarterback who has yet to be named for the three quarterback positions.
While several observers and experts interpreted Nate Sudfeld’s absence from the last preseason game as an indication that he will serve as Goff’s primary backup quarterback, Berreman disagrees. Instead, he believes Detroit will go elsewhere for its third quarterback. “Campbell has said Nate Sudfeld has a leg up on Hooker in the battle for the No. 2 spot on the depth chart here, which isn’t an ideal scenario the Lions should be embracing under any circumstance,” Berreman told ESPN.
Reisman is alluding to a statement made by Campbell about Sudfeld during the Lions’ August 17 preseason win over the Kansas City Chiefs. “Ultimately, you need to know, you have to have conviction that whoever that guy is, he is going to be able to keep this ship afloat,” Campbell told Pride of Detroit. “What we know about Hooker is that he is a young, growing quarterback who needs reps and time. Yes, I am aware of this. Nate currently has an advantage because he has greater playing time. He’s had more experience with it and seen more of it. So, with that, you have a good chance of keeping three quarterbacks on the 53-man roster. Am I going to say that’s 100 percent certain right now? No. But that’s kind of what you look at.”
