Less than 24 hours after potential Defensive Player of the Year candidate Aidan Hutchinson underwent surgery to repair his fractured tibia and fibula, Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell said this, strongly: “I would never count him out.”
The Lions’ star pass rusher faces a long road to recovery following surgery after last Sunday’s win over the Dallas Cowboys, with Campbell estimating Hutchinson’s rehab time to be 4-6 months. Campbell clearly left the door open intentionally and with good reasons.
Sources say there are several factors that point to Hutchinson potentially being back at the early benchmark of four months — which would be right at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Feb. 9, 2025 — provided Detroit makes it, of course…