Before Detroit’s game against Carolina, Lions linebacker Tahir Whitehead told reporters Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey, a top-10 pick by the Panthers back in May, reminded him a lot of Lions second-year, undrafted receiver Jace Billingsley.
That's pretty high praise thrown Billingsley’s way by the veteran linebacker.
“I’ll take it,” Billingsley said this week, when told of Whitehead’s comment a few week’s back.
It turns out Billingsley played the McCaffrey role while on the practice squad that whole week leading up to the Carolina game. He obviously impressed Whitehead in practice that week, but it seems he’s impressed some other important decision makers over the last seven weeks.