Aidan Hutchinson Out for Season: Injury Update and Recovery

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00:00So Dr. Chow, let's start with what happened yesterday in Dallas.

00:07Aiden Hutchinson for the Lions, despite a monumental Detroit victory, is likely out

00:13for the rest of this season.

00:15A broken tibia on a gruesome and significant lower leg injury.

00:20Doc, of course, his season has come to a close, but we want that insight.

00:25What is the recovery process like for the promising young edge rusher for Detroit?

00:30Yeah, and for those who love graphic stuff, otherwise don't look at my Twitter handle,

00:37ProFootballDoc, there's some slowdown zoomed in video.

00:40Literally, his lower leg wraps around a teammate's lower leg.

00:44It literally bends like it's rubber.

00:47And not only is his tibia broken, the fibula is broken too.

00:51Why do the Lions just talk about the tibia?

00:53Because that's the bigger bone and that's the only one that needed the urgent emergent

00:58surgery with a rock.

00:59The fibula, the associated bone, will heal on its own.

01:02So does the tibia and fibula fracture.

01:04That's why he had surgery, unstable fracture, before he even flew home.

01:10And the good news, and I always try and focus on good news, as you guys know, is this is

01:14not an Alex Smith injury.

01:17This is not an open wound or a compound fracture.

01:20This should not get infected.

01:22He will come back full go, unlike Alex Smith, who was a little bit of a shell of himself

01:27because of the nature of the injury.

01:29That was a plating surgery.

01:31That was dirt or sock in the wound.

01:33This is not that early surgery.

01:36Expect full recovery in 2025.

01:40But for the season 2025, I'm hearing chatter about Super Bowl, if he can get there.

01:46Look, I don't want to douse anyone's dreams.

01:48I mean, a lot of people go to the convenience store and try and win the lottery, but not

01:53many do.

01:54And let's just hope for the good, clean recovery.

01:57Even if his bone were healed, he's not going to be in shape to play and be Aiden Hutchinson.

02:02No way, no how, but let's take solace in that he'll be fine for next season.