If there were a prize for assembling the most sensible on-paper fit in the NFL draft, the Lions’ selecting Aidan Hutchinson with the No. 2 pick has to be the early favorite.
Here is a local product, born 36 minutes from the front doorstep of Ford Field and schooled 15 minutes away at Divine Child High School. Here is a player who cemented his stardom 45 minutes West in Ann Arbor. Here is a dude who smears his face in reverse–William Wallace makeup and leaps at quarterbacks like a hungry leopard paired with a coach (Dan Campbell) who chugs black coffee by the gallon, holds auditions for kneecap biters and once sat on an airplane calmly while his appendix neared explosion.
