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TODAY’S NEWS
The team met today and reviewed film from Sunday’s 37-25 victory over Washington. The players are off Tuesday and will return to the practice field Wednesday.
In the second half of Sunday’s game against the Redskins (10/31), QB Matthew Stafford was 18-of-27 (66.7-percent) for 140 yards and threw for 3 touchdowns. His quarterback rating was 116.3, the highest tally in a second half of a game during his career. He was the only quarterback in the NFC with four touchdown tosses in Week 8. Stafford also became the first quarterback in team history to throw for 4 touchdowns in a game which each touchdown gave the Lions the lead.
WR Calvin Johnson’s seven touchdown receptions in October were the most by any player in the NFL as well as the most overall touchdowns (7) by any player in the League this past month. He also scored a touchdown in all four of the Lions games in October, including 2 at Green Bay (10/3), 1 vs. St. Louis (10/10), 1 at New York Giants (10/17) and 3 vs. Washington Redskins (10/31).
Johnson also set a franchise record with 7 receiving touchdowns for the month of October. He broke the previous mark of 6 touchdown receptions by WR Herman Moore in 1995.
Johnson became the first receiver in the NFL to score 7 touchdowns in October since 2000 (San Francisco WR Terrell Owens, 7; Minnesota WR Randy Moss, 7), and he is the first player to record 7 total touchdowns in the month since 2006 (San Diego RB LaDanian Tomlinson, 8; Kansas City RB Larry Johnson, 10).
Rookie DT Ndamukong Suh’s was dominant during the month of October as he finished with 14 tackles, 4.5 sacks (29.5 yards lost), 1 interception, 1 pass defense and a 17-yard fumble return for a touchdown. He was a key cog in the Lions going 2-2 and winning both their home games. Suh had more sacks (4.5) in October than any other rookie in the NFL has tallied for the entire season, and he had the most among defensive tackles in the League (Chicago DT Israel Idonije recorded 4.5 sacks but did it over 4 games starting at LDE).
With 4.5 sacks, Suh became the first rookie defensive tackle to record 4.5 sacks in October since Jacksonville DT John Henderson had 5.0 in 2002.He also became the first defensive tackle in the NFL to collect 4.5 sacks during October since Tampa Bay DT Warren Sapp had 5.0 in 2005.
WR Stefan Logan set up the Lions first score of the game when he returned a Redskins punt for a career-high 71 yards to give the ball to Detroit’s offense at Washington’s 19-yard line. He became the first player in Lions history to return a 100-yard kickoff return (105t vs. St. Louis, 10/10) and a punt return for at least 70 yards in the same season. Logan has now returned a kick (2 kickoffs, 1 punt return) for more than 50 yards in each of the past three games.
