Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff and other Lions players are reportedly out with an illness. Head coach Dan Campbell said that the sickness is “kind of spreading through” the team at the moment. (via Lions Wire):
“This mess is going around right now. It’s just kind of spreading through and I think we’re on the back half of it, I really do. I think we’re on the downward slope of this, but we’re just trying, if we can buy ourselves a day to try to flush this out, we just felt like we needed to do it. It was a little bit rough. Look, everybody’s dealing with sickness. This goes around. But yeah, so I just felt like we needed to adjust.”
Fortunately for Lions fans, the sickness does not sound too bad. Goff spoke to the media recently and said that he thought he would be fine to practice, but that ultimately he decided to remain at home “out of an abundance of caution.” According to Goff, he felt the illness after Detroit's most recent game (via NBC):
“During the game you don’t feel it much at all,” Goff said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “But really it kind of hit me after the game. That adrenaline kind of wears off and whatever this little flu bug that’s going around kind of snuck up on me there.”
However, the illness is still bad news as it means Jared Goff and other Lions players will be missing practice. This comes after Goff was name the NFC's offensive player of the week on Wednesday, following the Lions' first win of the season. Other players who are sick are Jonah Jackson, Halapoulivaati Vaitai, Michael Brockers, and Nick Williams.
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