The Lions hosted their annual season-ticket-holder summit at Ford Field on Feb. 11, and toward the end of the laid-back affair GM Bob Quinn, team president Rod Wood and coach Matt Patricia entertained a Q&A session. About 30 minutes in, Corey Wolfgang stepped to one of the two microphones facing the stage where Quinn, Wood and Patricia were seated.



He explained that last year was his first purchasing season tickets. The reason, he said, was because the Lions drafted Jarrad Davis. “I wanted to make sure they knew how much I appreciated it that they gave a chance to someone who was such a good guy,” Wolfgang later told The Athletic.



Wolfgang knew Davis — or knew of him, at least — through his brother Brandon, who had attended Camden County High School in Kingsland, Georgia, with the future Lions linebacker. Brandon was diagnosed in childhood with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), now more commonly called an autism spectrum...