ALLEN PARK -- It's tough being a rookie in the NFL. It's even tougher when you're a quarterback. And it's tougher yet when you are the No. 1 overall pick.
Expectations are high. The team is (typically) lousy. And you play the game's most difficult position. All of which is to say, whoever Cleveland drafts first overall next week -- and it almost certainly will be a quarterback -- will be entering into a difficult situation.
Matthew Stafford knows that as well as anybody. He was the first overall pick in the 2009 draft, just one year after the Lions became the first team to go 0-16.