Aidan Hutchinson may have won the fan-voted Pepsi Rookie of the Year award on Thursday morning, but he didn’t walk away with the hardware at Thursday night’s NFL Honors event. The Associated Press, instead, chose New York Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner as the 2022 Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Aidan Hutchinson said being passed over for the first pick in last year’s NFL draft “will stick with me forever.” Now, the Detroit Lions defensive end has another sleight to use for motivation. Hutchinson, the second pick of last year’s draft, finished second in NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year voting announced Thursday, behind New
The Twentyman in the Huddle podcast is back on the road, this time from Radio Row at Super Bowl LVII in Phoenix, Arizona. In this week’s episode presented by Microsoft, Tim Twentyman is joined by a variety of guests to talk Detroit Lions football and where the team goes in 2023 after a 9-8 season
Jerry Green | Special to The Detroit News Tom Brady is standing on the beach delivering his annual retirement speech on television and an assortment of other electronic locations. “Good morning, guys, I’ll get to the point right away,” Brady says, standing in the sand of Surfside Beach, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. “I’m retiring for good.
Jimmy Johnson knows the challenge of building a team into a winner, and he has heaped some praise on Lions head coach Dan Campbell. When it comes to turning a team around, and doing it fairly quickly, Jimmy Johnson knows of which he speaks. In 1989 he took over as head coach of the Dallas
Jared Goff has a building bandwagon of fans in Detroit, and his comparison to fans in LA will only make that group grow. The number of Detroit Lions who believe in quarterback Jared Goff has surely multiple exponentially over the last few months, as may happen when you play very well and your team wins
As other NFL teams eye some tough decisions to get into better salary cap position, these 5 potential cap casualties should be of particular interest to the Detroit Lions. The Detroit Lions enter the offseason in a very good position. They are in the top half of the league in salary cap space right now,
The 2023 NFL Honors ceremony celebrates the best performances of the 2022 season, and that could be big news for the Detroit Lions. There are three Lions up for awards on Thursday night. Offensive coordinator Ben Johnson is up for Assistant Coach of the Year while Aidan Hutchinson is up for Defensive Rookie of the…
EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY – NOVEMBER 20: Aidan Hutchinson #97 of the Detroit Lions warms up before the game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on November 20, 2022 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images) Detroit Lions announce coaching staff changes for 2023 by Brad Berreman Lions defensive end
The Detroit Lions have QB Jared Goff on a decent contract compared to the rest of the starting QBS in the NFL. Should the Detroit Lions extend Jared Goff to a future contract extension after the 2023 NFL season or should they wait and see if Jared Goff can produce at a high level in
The NFL announced on Thursday that Detroit Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson has won the “Pepsi Zero Sugar Rookie of the Year” award. “There were so many talented players in this rookie class, so it’s quite an honor for me to be named the 2022 Pepsi Zero Sugar Rookie of the Year,” Hutchinson said via…
We’ve come to the end of our 2022 Pride of Detroit Awards, and the the granddaddy of them all. “Most Valuable Player” is a term that is always the center of debate. Does it mean the “best” player or do you take the words more literally and pick the player who brings the team the…
Over the weekend, the Detroit Lions mic’d up a couple players at the 2023 Pro Bowl. As always, it’s interesting to see and hear some of our favorite Lions players at their most authentic selves. And with the unseriousness of the Pro Bowl, you won’t see the players any more casual than this.
Apple Podcasts | Spotify • Hosts: Shawn Windsor (@shawnwindsor) and Carlos Monarrez (@cmonarrez) • Producer: Andrew Hammond • Editor: Robin Chan • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado, Kirkland Crawford • Guest: Dave Birkett, Free Press Lions beat writer • Email: swindsor@freepress.com On this episode: This week, Free Press Lions beat writer Dave Birkett joins the guys to once again ponder over “the quarterback discussion” and what the Detroit Lions should