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• ESPN IR 
• Yahoo IR
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• NFLInjury.com IR  (decent independent blog for injury data)

Dan signed a three-year, $9.15 million contract in March 2009 that included a $2.4 million signing bonus. The terms have not yet been disclosed:

2009 - Under Contract

2010 - Under Contract

2011 - Under Contract

2012 - Free Agent

Safety First

Orlovsky did his best to ensure the Lions would make history in 2008.  Pinned at his own 1-yard line against the Vikings, Orvlosky dropped back to pass, and when he saw that Jared Allen was five feet away from him, he peed his pants, and then did this...

...the Lions lost the game by two points.  Afterwards, Orlovsky was honest and didn't attempt to talk his way around this one:

"When they started blowing the whistle," Orlovsky said, "I was like, 'Did we false start or were they offsides or something?' Then I looked and I was like, 'You are an idiot."

The Dan Orlovsky Foundation slogan is, "Helping kids reach their goal line."  Which goal-line, Dan?

And so, Orlovsky has yet to win an NFL game as a starter, going 0-7 last year as the worst quarterback on the worst team in NFL history.  He played a few times in 2005, but he didn't see the field at all in 2006 and 2007, which is probably why the Lions at least won a few games.

He helped the Lions make history, throwing eight TDs and INTS and he completed only 56% of his passes for 1,616 yards.  However, Orlovsky thinks that if he was given a time machine and could travel back in time and change 15 plays of the 2008 season, the Lions would be a playoff contender.

"You change 15 plays this season, 20 plays this season, we're probably a .500 team.  People can look at me and say I'm crazy.  I'll point the 15 plays out to them.  But we're 0-14.  It's tough to swallow.  Everyone says we stink and we don't have much debate off it.  It's frustrating."



Crazy.

2009 Fantasy Outlook

The Texans are really high on Orlovsky (his name does sorta sound like Brumsky), and he could see the field before long as QB Matt Schaub has missed 10 games in the last two seasons.  Orlovsky may struggle in a new scheme, but he did keep Calvin Johnson relevant throwing him six TDs in seven games in '08.  Should Schaub go down (it's probable), Orlovsky will have an even better Johnson (Andre) to depend on as an enormous and sickly skilled target.

We can't advocate handcuff status for Orlovsky (to Schaub), but he's worth keeping a lazy eye out for on the waiver wire if (when) Schaub gets injured.