The Lions got their seventh win of the season on Sunday, 35-10 over the Patriots in Germany. The Lions also suffered a potentially big loss along the way.
Defensive end Aidan Hutchinson suffered a non-contact knee injury while celebrating a first-quarter sack of Patriots quarterback Drake Maye, who suffered a game-ending ankle injury on the play.
Coach Dan Campbell provided a non-update update on Hutchinson after the game.
“Nothing new,” Campbell said, via Jeremy Bergman of NFL.com. “We’ll know more when we get back in the States, but any time you lose a player of his caliber, the type of teammate he is -- he’s a captain of ours -- that doesn’t make things easy.”
Lurking between the lines is, apparently, a plan to perform an MRI on the knee after the Lions land in Michigan. The Lions host the Buccaneers on Sunday, followed by a short-week showdown with the Bears.
The Detroit defense has played well in recent weeks. Of course, they’ve faced the horrendous pre-Cousins Minnesota offense, the Dolphins, and the Patriots without Maye.