2025 Preseason Game Day Threads

[Hongbit]

I will be very surprised if they keep 3 QB’s.   I expect Hooker to be out.

[RedRamage]

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

I will be very surprised if they keep 3 QB’s.   I expect Hooker to be out.

So... from a strategy stand point: Do you want to cut a QB who's been in your system for the years that Hooker has been? This is another factor that makes me think they'll try to hang onto him.

Ultimately I think @1984Echoes makes a good point if they look at it and say: "We REALLY want to keep player-X, but we don't have room unless we cut Hooker," that's a factor against keeping him. But the idea that GB or the Eagles or whomever could pick up Hooker who's been learning out playbook for years is perhaps a reason to keep him around if the team is on the fence with him this year.

[MichiganCardinal]

I think they may try to get something for him before they outright cut him. I doubt he clears waivers. If you can pick up a conditional 6th or 7th it’s probably worth it at this point.

But I don’t see the relative benefit in rostering three QBs, when ideally both are just holding clipboards.

[4hzglory]

22 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

I think they may try to get something for him before they outright cut him. I doubt he clears waivers. If you can pick up a conditional 6th or 7th it’s probably worth it at this point.

But I don’t see the relative benefit in rostering three QBs, when ideally both are just holding clipboards.

I could see him clearing waivers and think it's likely with what he's shown so far (unless picked up by our competition just to learn about the offense.  IMO, I don't think he brings back even a 7th.  At this point, I'd rather have Ewers to develop than Hooker and he went in the middle of the 7th.

[RedRamage]

1 hour ago, MichiganCardinal said:

I think they may try to get something for him before they outright cut him. I doubt he clears waivers. If you can pick up a conditional 6th or 7th it’s probably worth it at this point.

But I don’t see the relative benefit in rostering three QBs, when ideally both are just holding clipboards.

Now that's an interesting possibility. If you trade him for a 7th then you a degree of control where he goes, and it's less likely (certainly not impossible, but at least less likely) that he's gonna get cut from that team and be available to be picked up by our rivals.

I wonder what Ben Johnson's opinion of Hooker is? I wouldn't care about shipping him off to Chicago because BJ already knows the Lions well.

[1984Echoes]

4 hours ago, RedRamage said:

... I wonder what Ben Johnson's opinion of Hooker is? I wouldn't care about shipping him off to Chicago because BJ already knows the Lions well.

I could live with this.

Especially if Holmes could finagle a 6th/ conditional (stays on roster all year) 5th...