Hendon Hooker is getting there, albeit slowly [Video]

In the Lions’ first practice of OTA’s open to the media, Hendon Hooker looked like a quarterback who hasn’t played a game in a year and a half. Many of his throws in team drills were either off-target or not on time, or both. His ball lacked touch and zip. Hooker is healthy, but clearly still recovering the form that made him a Heisman candidate in his final season at Tennessee before a torn ACL ended his college career and delayed his start in the NFL.

It was telling a week later when Dan Campbell, asked about Hooker’s progress this spring, offered this: “I would say yesterday was good to see.” As in, there it is. That’s more like the quarterback we drafted in the third round.

“There was some improvement yesterday that we had really been looking for. You felt a little bit of — there’s some development there that was really good …