Second Team PFF Honors<\/a> for his work as a long snapper for Detroit this season, and he was PFF\u2019s second-highest graded long snapper (79.9) in 2025. If you don\u2019t recall any misplaced snaps fired back to Jack Fox, that\u2019s a reminder of Hatten\u2019s dependability and consistency.<\/p>\nJohn Whiticar: Hogan Hatten<\/p>\n
On paper, there aren\u2019t a lot of strong candidates. Jake Bates had a down year. Kalif Raymond had a punt return touchdown but his return average was his worst since 2017. Sione Vaki is an excellent special teamer, but he battled injuries all season. The easy pick would be Jack Fox, but I want to give a nod to his long snapper, Hogan Hatten. A good long snapper is invisible, and that\u2019s exactly what Hatten is. He rarely, if ever, has a bad snap. As an added bonus, he is strong in coverage too, finishing as PFF\u2019s second-highest graded long snapper.<\/p>\n
Meko Scott: Kalif Raymond<\/p>\n
This award could easily go to Jack Fox for having another solid year, but I\u2019m going to show some love to Kalif Raymond. In 2025 we saw Raymond return 32 punts for 241 yards and a touchdown, while also breaking the Lions total punt return yards record previously held by Mel Gray.<\/p>\n
With Jake Bates having a downish year, and the return game not being explosive, punter Jack Fox was only special teams player that stood out this year. He continues to be one of the best punters in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our Detroit Lions award nomination process continues today with our selections for Special Teams Player of the Year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,1262,2506,7,147,6,60789],"class_list":{"0":"post-742754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroit-lions-opinion","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-pride-of-detroit-awards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116047149277379543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742754","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=742754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}