The Detroit Lions dropped an early morning bombshell on fans, with NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reporting that the team had traded Tim Patrick to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Patrick, an eight year veteran who was set to be the teams' starting WR3, now finds himself jumping from a contender to a rebuilding effort down in Florida.
This communicates a lot about the Lions' confidence in rookie receiver Isaac TeSlaa, who will now be splitting reps at WR3 between himself and Kalif Raymond, and not between Raymond and Patrick. Earlier this week, head coach Dan Campbell had suggested that TeSlaa was going to have an important role in the offsense pretty early in the year - but, it wasn't anticipated it would've come this soon.