After what seemed like months of hand wringing and concern from fans that the Detroit Lions wouldn’t sign anybody (it was a few hours), news broke of the first major signing for 2020’s free agency and it was... Halapoulivaati Vaitai—an offensive tackle who wasn’t even starting for the Eagles? That can’t be right.
The mathematician in me notes his low snap count, only 541 snaps in 2019 for, and wonders what they could have seen to sign him to a starter contract. The analytics guy in me noted his very poor PFF grade from 2017-2018—brushing aside his very good grade from 2019 for the moment because pessimism rules.