5 big questions for the Detroit Lions in 2022 offseason

4. Draft or sign a “No. 1” wide receiver?

Rookie Amon-Ra St. Brown has become a star down the stretch his season. But he’s not a proverbial No. 1 wide receiver in the way we think of it, in physical build or skill set. Finding someone that fits that bill is surely on the Lions’ offseason radar. Unless there’s a bargain out there in free agency (more likely to come on this down the road), the draft may yield multiple viable options for them to find that guy.

The Lions could attack their need at wide receiver with a level of quantity as opposed to quality (a top-end free agent, the second first-round pick), and it wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. In any case a move to go for someone they think can be a No. 1 receiver, via free agency or the draft, is possible until shown otherwise.

3. Will (or when will?) Jared Goff be replaced?

Though it’s not completely out of the realm of possibilities they’ll move off him this offseason, as a practical matter the Lions will have Jared Goff on their roster in 2022. The question is how aggressively the depth chart around him will be filled, with a free agent signing, a trade for someone, a drafted quarterback or some combination as options. And with that, if he could legitimately be replaced as the starter during next season.

Goff will probably be gone in 2023. But the Lions can put him on the clock as the locked-in starter for 2022 with quarterback moves they make this offseason, or show some commitment to him if they don’t make real moves to replace Tim Boyle and David Blough.