{"id":764610,"date":"2026-02-20T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/764610\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:36:17","slug":"5x-pro-bowl-tackle-on-aidan-hutchinson-hes-an-alien-bro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/764610\/","title":{"rendered":"5x Pro Bowl tackle on Aidan Hutchinson: \u2018He\u2019s an alien, bro\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0J2-nO3Dfvw?si=vpigrm7cJzWDZv_A\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this week\u2019s St. Brown podcast<\/a>, Detroit Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson received a very high compliment from one of the best offensive tackles of the past few decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His overall point was that players were getting so big and so athletic that his 33-year-old body could no longer hold up. And while the discussion started with Verse, Armstead\u2014unprompted\u2014brought up the time he faced Hutchinson in 2022 when the Dolphins beat the Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI played Aidan his rookie year, and he\u2019s an alien, bro,\u201d Armstead said. \u201cI had no idea he was 6-(foot)-7. I\u2019m thinking he\u2019s 6-3, 6-4. I see the kid, he\u2019s like 6-9. And with most rookies, I can change up sets, they can\u2019t read it. Jump sets, all of that. He\u2019s seeing all of it. He was fire, bro. His rookie year? He was fire, crazy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI locked his ass up, but\u2014in Detroit, in Detroit\u2014he was fire, bro. I don\u2019t want to play him again. I never want to see that kid again, ever. I\u2019m happy I never played him (again).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To Armstead\u2019s credit, he did shut down Hutchinson that game. The Lions defensive end was held to just one tackle, three pressures, and a 57.3 PFF grade\u2014his third-lowest grade of the season. But for Armstead to still see the crazy potential in Hutchinson is both a credit to Hutchinson\u2019s mental abilities on that day and Armstead\u2019s perception. Hutchinson has since gone on to make two Pro Bowls, produce 43.0 sacks in 56 games, and finish 2023 with the second-most pressures in the NFL and 2025 with the most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0J2-nO3Dfvw?si=DLeaeDWZ0hUxJIiM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can watch the entire podcast here<\/a>. Armstead also has some very high praise for Dan Campbell that we\u2019ll cover in a separate piece, but the entire interview is certainly worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s St. Brown podcast, Detroit Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson received a very high compliment from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,153,1889,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-764610","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-news","11":"tag-detroit-lions-quotes","12":"tag-detroitlions","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116103229772077845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764610","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=764610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}