{"id":88552,"date":"2025-08-17T02:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88552\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T02:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:12:07","slug":"lions-dan-campbell-says-kyle-allen-is-leading-qb2-battle-over-hendon-hooker-hes-proven-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88552\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions’ Dan Campbell says Kyle Allen is leading QB2 battle over Hendon Hooker: ‘He’s proven more’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week against the Falcons, Allen had a perfect 158.3 passer rating. He went 7 of 8 for 120 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n

His performance Saturday versus Miami brings his two-week total to 244 yards and four touchdowns with an 84 completion percentage.<\/p>\n

He played the entire first half and took a while to get going. His first three drives traveled 34 yards and lost 30 to penalties. From there, though, Allen was difficult to stop. He led a balanced drive for six on his fourth try, completing passes of 8 and 13 yards around chunk runs by Jacob Saylors<\/a> before hitting Jackson Meeks<\/a> for an 11-yard score.<\/p>\n

Faced with a two-minute drill on his fifth and final drive of the day, Allen promptly went 6 of 6 for 77 yards, the exclamation point on the drive a TD to third-rounder Isaac TeSlaa<\/a> in the corner of the end zone.<\/p>\n

It’s exactly what the Lions wanted to see from their primary backup, an emergency pull cord who can deliver results should they ever have to go a stretch of this season without Goff. And Campbell’s faith in Allen comes not just from this singular performance or the one before it, but Allen’s ability to bounce back after a dud in the league’s most high-profile preseason game.<\/p>\n

“I mean, it’s pretty confident,” Campbell said, regarding his confidence level in Allen. “I mean, here we go. This is his second week in a row you, you know, in a competitive setting here that he’s moved the football for us and made critical throws at critical times. I thought the two-minute drill at the end was awesome, right before half. I mean, that was — he’s got really good command of the offense, he communicates very clearly, he doesn’t get frazzled, he doesn’t worry about anything. If he does something that didn’t (go) quite right or he makes a mistake, like, he doesn’t get frazzled. He’s onto the next play, which all of us appreciate that. So, he’s done a good job, I do have faith in him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week against the Falcons, Allen had a perfect 158.3 passer rating. He went 7 of 8 for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,1810,31903,31905,3,349,6257,99],"class_list":["post-88552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-detroit-lions","tag-hendon-hooker","tag-kyle-allen","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}