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Detroit Lions teammate: Matthew, Kelly Stafford 'doing well' after brain tumor diagnosis

Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez break down what they heard from the Detroit Lions on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in Allen Park. Carlos Monarrez and Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press

Matthew Stafford has more important things on his mind than football right now, and one of his Detroit Lions teammates said players are making a collective effort to fill Stafford's leadership role while he's tending to his wife as she deals with a brain tumor.

"It's hard to replace Matthew in the sense of – it’s really hard to kind of touch upon this situation," Lions center Graham Glasgow said Tuesday.