Notes: Spotrac predicting very reasonable extension for Lions QB Jared Goff

If these numbers are close to the actual extension for Lions quarterback Jared Goff, sign me up.

It may be the offseason for the NFL, but in reality, this league never sleeps. Not really anyway.

As the start of free agency inches closer and closer, teams will begin to hand out contracts to keep their own players in house. And as usual, the biggest of those contracts will be tied to the game’s most important players on the field—quarterbacks.

To prepare for this, Spotrac’s Michael Ginnitti broke down possible contracts for six quarterbacks from around the league, including Detroit Lions’ quarterback Jared Goff.

Four years and $180M may sound like a lot on paper, but it is still quite a ways from the top of the quarterback market, and smaller cap hits in 2023 and 2024 ($15.5M in ‘23 and $29M in ‘24) give the Lions plenty of wiggle room over the next couple of years.

You can read the entire breakdown from Ginnitti on Goff’s extension as well as the other contract predictions for quarterbacks here.

And now, onto the rest of today’s notes:

• Lions’ senior writer Tim Twentyman has his observations from the first day of the NFL Combine in Indianapolis.

• And if you didn’t already know, now you do.

• Interesting note regarding the possible future of the trade deadline.

• University of Missouri edge rusher Darius Robinson met with his hometown Lions at the NFL Combine, and Kyle Meinke of MLive has more on how it meant a lot for one of the fastest risers in the draft process.

• This is the combine content I am here for. Amazing stuff.