Just turning the ball over<\/a>,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cThat was the big one. Look, Hooker made some good throws before. He was doing a few things, but we\u2019ve got to get more work taking care of the ball.<\/p>\n\u201cYou decide you\u2019re going to be a runner, you\u2019ve got to tuck it away like any runner does. Two hands on the ball in the pocket when you go to step up, so it\u2019s all the fundamentals that we talk about. So, we just need more work at that, and then he\u2019ll get to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hooker fumbled twice in the game. Both were lost. <\/p>\n
The first happened on Detroit\u2019s opening drive. Hooker scrambled on third and eight, gaining one yard. The next fumble came when Hooker was sacked on the first drive of the second quarter. At that point, he was removed for Kyle Allen.<\/p>\n
In contrast, Allen played well. Possibly, well enough to end the competition to serve as the backup to Jared Goff.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought Kyle played really well, man, I was fired up,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cThat was outstanding. He comes in the game, he wasn\u2019t going to play until the second half, and we get him in there. So, it\u2019s kind of like, \u2018Hey man, you\u2019re up.\u2019 And, \u2018OK, I\u2019ve got to be ready to go now?\u2019 . . . He operated the offense at a high level and made big-time throws, so I was fired up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hooker completed seven of 10 passes for 38 yards. He rushed for 27 yards on three attempts. Allen completed seven of eight passes for 120 yards, two touchdowns, and a perfect passer rating of 158.3.<\/p>\n
So, yes, it looks like Allen is on track to be No. 2 on the depth chart when the season begins. The bigger question could be whether Hooker, a third-round pick in 2023, is not long for the Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions quarterback Hendon Hooker got the start in Friday night\u2019s preseason game against the Falcons. He was supposed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-138588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115013580655057478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}