Allen Park — Tom Savage is entering the early stages of a competition to back up Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, a little more than a decade after he passed up the opportunity to possibly replace him.
One of the nation's top high school recruits in 2008, Savage drew interest from a number of major programs, including Michigan, Florida State, Tennessee and Miami. Also on that list, the Georgia Bulldogs, who leaned on Stafford, then a junior at the school, to encourage Savage to commit.