SEATTLE -- Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford played with a glove on his throwing hand during the last five games of his 2016 season, and now that it’s over, he said he doesn’t believe he’ll need surgery to fix his right middle finger.

“I think it’s going to heal with rest,” Stafford said. “I think, that’s my plan right now.”

Stafford injured the finger when he clapped hands with Chicago’s Leonard Floyd in Week 14 on Dec. 11. The quarterback played the remainder of that game with a full glove on his hand, and then the next week against the New York Giants, he wore a black glove with the middle finger covered and the rest of his fingers exposed.

In the final three games of Detroit’s season, he switched to a white glove with his middle finger covered and the rest exposed.

Statistically, Stafford struggled when wearing the glove. He threw five interceptions in the final five games of his season after throwing five in the first 12 games combined. In the Lions' 26-6 playoff loss to Seattle on Saturday, Stafford completed 18 of 32 passes for 205 yards, no touchdowns and no interceptions.

In two of the games he played with the glove, the Lions did not score a touchdown on offense.

The quarterback said several times he did not think the injured finger was affecting his play, but during his final five games, he didn’t have any games in which he completed better than 63.4 percent of his passes. Before the injury, he completed passes at a higher rate in all but three games.

“I don’t think it affected me too much,” Stafford said. “Obviously I’m not 100 percent, but I battled. I feel like I threw the ball accurately enough. There’s definitely some throws I wish I had back, but a healthy finger does that sometimes, too.

“It’s just more of an annoyance than anything that it happened and I had to deal with it.”