After he set the NFL record for pass attempts without an incompletion in a game, it wasn't going to be anyone else. Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff has been named NFC Offensive Player of the Week for Week 4 after going 18-for-18 for 292 yards and two touchdowns against the Seattle Seahawks.
Right after the game, head coach Dan Campbell expressed immediate regret about not giving Goff a game ball in the postgame locker room (which has since been corrected). But he otherwise gave the requisite praise to his quarterback.
"I did not realize he was perfect. I did not know he was literally 18-for-18. But I knew he played really well – you could feel it – and he really found his rhythm early, and I thought he was seeing the field, played with rhythm, he had to move a little bit in the pocket,". "I thought what really kickstarted him is he had to kind of move in the pocket, got spun around, and hung with Jamo (Jameson Williams) and hit him on the hook for the first down. It was big because he was rolling after that."
Jared Goff easily named NFC Offensive Player of the Week for Week 4
Goff didn't quite register a perfect passer rating (155.8) for his performance against the Seahawks, and of course he also had a touchdown reception in the game.
This is the third time Goff won NFC Offensive Player of the Week as a Lion (Week 13-2021, Week 6-2023), and it's the sixth time he has won the award in his career. He is the first Lions' quarterback to win the award three times, surpassing two-time winners Rodney Peete and Scott Mitchell.
Jared Goff has now won the Player of the Week award six times in his career — and for the third time with the #Lions. He is the first #Lions QB ever to earn the honor three times, surpassing Scott Mitchell (two-time winner) and Rodney Peete (two). https://t.co/7RJGGpMlhR
— Eric Woodyard (@E_Woodyard) October 2, 2024
This is the second straight week a Lions player has won a Player of the Week award. Punter Jack Fox won NFC Special Teams Player of the Week for his great performance against the Arizona Cardinals in Week 3. And it truly should be three weeks in a row for a Lion to win a Player of the Week award, since Aidan Hutchinson was openly robbed of NFC Defensive Player of the Week after his 4.5-sack game in Week 2 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.