{"id":18291,"date":"2025-05-02T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/18291\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:06:09","slug":"video-detroit-lions-aidan-hutchinson-looks-ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/18291\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Detroit Lions\u2019 Aidan Hutchinson looks ready to go"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since his brutal leg injury against the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> last October, we\u2019ve been patiently awaiting the return of Detroit Lions<\/a> defensive end Aidan Hutchinson. A month ago at The Masters golf tournament, Hutchinson revealed he was in the final stages of his rehab<\/a>, and that appears to have been the truth.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Impact Sports Performance shared a video of Hutchinson training at a practice facility, and he looks completely unimpeded. He\u2019s literally doing everything from bending the edge, exploding out of his stance, and sprinting at full speed on an inclined treadmill.<\/p>\n

The Lions opened offseason workouts about a week ago, and it\u2019s unclear if Hutchinson has taken part yet. What will be more telling is whether the Lions defensive end will take part in Organized Team Activities (OTAs), which include more on-field work plus 7-on-7s and 9-on-9s (without contact). The Lions OTA sessions, which are voluntary, are from May 28-30 and June 3-5. Detroit cancelled mandatory minicamp this year due to the team participating in the Hall of Fame Game this year, expanding their training camp and preseason schedules.<\/p>\n

Hutchinson\u2019s involvement in the team\u2019s offseason program may also depend on his contract situation. After exercising his fifth-year option last week, the Lions have Hutchinson under contract through the 2026 season. However, Lions general manager Brad Holmes has expressed the desire to get a deal done soon.<\/p>\n

Last week, Holmes was asked if a Hutchinson deal getting done will rely upon what happens with other defensive ends who may be seeking a new deal (Micah Parsons, T.J. Watt, etc.). Holmes didn\u2019t provide much clarity.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately we just don\u2019t have any control over that. If [Parsons] gets his deal done, he gets his deal done, but we have our internal communication and process and plan in place,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cSo you just\u2014unfortunately you can\u2019t control those other things. I know\u2014you try to get in front of some things, or that, but you obviously don\u2019t have control over it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since his brutal leg injury against the Dallas Cowboys last October, we\u2019ve been patiently awaiting the return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[6013,146,113,153,2506,7,29,9205,6014,147,9216,6,152,151,1260,528,602],"class_list":{"0":"post-18291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-aidan","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroit-lions-news","12":"tag-detroitlions","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-go","16":"tag-hutchinson","17":"tag-lions","18":"tag-looks","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-of","21":"tag-pride","22":"tag-ready","23":"tag-to","24":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114439100023258469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}