Lions notes: Matthew Stafford, Matt Ryan team up to win basketball league

• Matthew Stafford stopped by the University of Georgia to watch his former college team practice. During a brief media stint, Stafford talked about a lot of random topics. Here are the highlights:
  • Stafford and Matt Ryan, who became friends at the Pro Bowl, teamed up to win their church basketball league.
    
    
  • Regarding Calvin Johnson: "No one player is going to replace that guy."
    
    
  • When asked if he was shocked about Calvin's retirement, Stafford said, "No. Not to say that I expected it, but I wasn't shocked." Later adding, "I knew the NFL was wearing on him."
    
    
  • He joked, "I wore my hat forwards today, so people like me."
    
    
• DeAndre Levy continues to have the best Instagram account:

Most important post of the day. #VolcanicSulphurBaths

A video posted by DeAndre Levy (@dre_levy) on Mar 26, 2016 at 7:45am PDT

• Jim Caldwell believes Ameer Abdullah is the player most likely to improve in 2016. 
  
  
• The Detroit Lions defense were very effective at generating pressure through stunts:

  Top 5 D's at generating pressure from stunts (% of stunt plays with pressure):
  
  DET 54.9%
  DEN 52.9%
  KC 52.9%
  MIN 52.1%
  NE 50.0%

  — Cris Collinsworth (@CollinsworthNBC) March 24, 2016

  
  
• Ford Field hosted a practice for the University of Michigan football team on Saturday:

  #Wolverines are at work today in Detroit pic.twitter.com/eeEsOBIApO

  — Ford Field (@fordfield) March 26, 2016

  
  
• This is the mock draft Pride Of Detroit deserves, but not the one it needs right now: The DC Comics Mock Draft.