Aidan Hutchinson, the standout defensive end for the Detroit Lions, shared how his dreams for the season were shattered during a serious injury on October 13 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, while playing against the Dallas Cowboys. Reflecting on the incident during an appearance on The Squeeze podcast, Hutchinson expressed the devastation he felt. “All I could think about was how I wouldn’t be able to play in the Super Bowl, and how everything I’d worked for, including my Defensive Player of the Year aspirations, was suddenly gone,” he said, wearing a black hoodie that read “Unbroken.”
Hutchinson vividly remembered the moment of injury. “I was ripping my gloves off, throwing them because it felt like I wasn’t even in my own body, and I knew something was broken. My leg felt like it whipped and then hit something. At first, I thought it was just bone pain, like I’d bruised my leg. But when I touched my leg, I realized my fibula was broken, though it wasn’t sticking through the skin,” he recalled. He was carted off the field, overwhelmed with emotion. “I wasn’t crying because of the pain but because of the situation, it was just so upsetting.”
At the hospital, Hutchinson was told there was a possibility he could return by the Super Bowl, which gave him a sense of hope. “That news gave me a little bit of hope and a goal for my rehab,” he said. Determined to overcome the setback, he vowed to fight through the injury and return if the Lions make it to the Super Bowl.
