Jan. 10, 2026, 7:45 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
After enjoying a career-best 14.5-sacks season, Detroit Lions<\/a> star defensive end Aidan Hutchinson will join ESPN as an in-studio guest analyst for its “Postseason NFL Countdown.”<\/p>\n Set to air on Sunday from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. ET, Hutchinson will join host Mike Greenberg and analysts Tedy Bruschi, Randy Moss, Rex Ryan, Alex Smith and Adam Schefter from the Hudson Square studio in New York.<\/p>\n In addition to his 14.5 sacks, Hutchinson also logged 54 tackles, four forced fumbles, three passes defended, one interception and one fumble recovery.<\/p>\n Hutchinson also made some Pro Football Focus history<\/a>.<\/p>\n There have been only six seasons where an NFL player registered 100 or more pressures in a season since PFF started tracking player performances in 2006. Hutchinson is the only player with multiple such seasons, reaching 101 pressures in 2023 and 100 pressures in 2025.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n For more\u00a0Lions<\/a>\u00a0coverage, follow us on X,\u00a0@TheLionsWire<\/a>, and give our\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page a like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 10, 2026, 7:45 a.m. ET After enjoying a career-best 14.5-sacks season, Detroit Lions star defensive end Aidan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[95878,146,113,2506,7,147,6,52959,96502,97086,95882,96242,95892,95893,95896,95888,95895,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-670826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfllions","16":"tag-sstsnlions","17":"tag-tagaidan-hutchinson","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagdetroit-lions","20":"tag-tagespn-inc","21":"tag-tagfacebook","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-hub","25":"tag-tagoverall-positive","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115880912718943575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670826","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=670826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}