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Once the ‘young guy forever,’ Matthew Stafford now an older man with Lions
- Updated: May 31, 2016
10:54 PM ET
ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The locker room is much different now and Matthew Stafford knows it. Sure, the Detroit Lions quarterback expects a certain amount of change from year to year — that’s the business of the NFL.
But, at age 28, Stafford isn’t exactly old in terms of years on this Earth, despite entering his eighth season in the NFL. Then he looks around and perhaps feels a bit beyond his years in a Lions locker room that has gone through a bunch of changes the past few years.
“It’s crazy how it happens,” Stafford said. “Feel like you’re the young guy forever and, it’s the NFL. They are always trying to bring in competition, bring in young guys to see if they can pave their way in this league, and we’re no different.
“We’ve got a lot of competition at a lot of positions and it’s going to make us better.”
That’s at least what Stafford is hoping in Season No. 8, when — all of a sudden — he is one of the longest-tenured Lions around. Only long-snapper Don Muhlbach has been with the team longer consecutively. Stafford’s backup, Dan Orlovsky, was drafted by the Lions when Stafford was an early enrollee at Georgia, but his stints with …
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