He is back, which is a great news for the Detroit Lions.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff broke the huddle, scanned his group of offensive players, then gave the group a double take.

It didn’t look right.

“What?” receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown, wearing a microphone in-game, muttered in a befuddled tone as he looked around, unsure where to go.

“We called the play,” St. Brown explained later. “I was like, yeah, I don’t know what I’m doing on this play I’m not supposed to be in.”

With three minutes and seven seconds remaining in the second quarter and a 17-10 lead over the Los Angeles Chargers, the Lions stood on the field in the incorrect personnel grouping to run the play called in by offensive coordinator Ben Johnson.

Instead of featuring “12” personnel, with one running back and two tight ends on the field, the Lions were in “11”, which includes one running back and one tight end.

“I knew it was wrong kind of when we broke the huddle,” Goff said. “I should have realized it probably when we were in the huddle. Once we broke the huddle and got lined up, I realized it was wrong.”

In a season when the 7-2 Lions continue to prove that they’ve broken from their historically disastrous ways, even things that begin so wrong can suddenly turn right.

Johnson hollered in Goff’s ear to audible out of the play.

“I look at Jared, he checks it,” St. Brown said. “He’s like, you know what, let’s just check it to a run.”

Everyone relaxed, and Goff handed the ball to David Montgomery, who spent the previous two games sidelined because of a rib injury. Montgomery burst through a gap up the middle, then dodged a couple of tackles as he cut to his left and sprinted down the sideline for a 75-yard touchdown run — the longest rushing touchdown by a Lions player since Jahvid Best dashed to an 88-yard score in 2011.