{"id":703698,"date":"2026-01-25T10:36:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/703698\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:36:58","slug":"detroit-lions-edge-aidan-hutchinson-named-a-finalist-for-defensive-player-of-the-year-comeback-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/703698\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions EDGE Aidan Hutchinson named a finalist for Defensive Player of the Year &#038; Comeback Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hutchinson was a stalwart along Detroit&#8217;s defensive front this season playing 91 percent of the defensive snaps (1,005), a career high. He was named Second-Team All-Pro and earned his second Pro Bowl nod.<\/p>\n<p>He joined T.J. Watt as the only players in the NFL to ever accumulate at least 37.0 sacks and four interceptions through the first 50 games of a player&#8217;s career. Since quarterback hits were first tracked in 2006, his 89 quarterback hits are the third-most any NFL player has logged through 50 games.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently sixth in franchise history in sacks with 43.0 in just four seasons and 56 games played.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the Comeback Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year will be announced at NFL Honors on Thursday, Feb. 5 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco during Super Bowl week and will be aired at 9 p.m. ET on NBC and NFL Network with streaming available on Peacock and NFL Plus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hutchinson was a stalwart along Detroit&#8217;s defensive front this season playing 91 percent of the defensive snaps (1,005),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2071],"tags":[1817,146,113,2506,7,416,147,415,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-703698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-aidan-hutchinson","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-news-twentyman","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115955305263077980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703698","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=703698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}