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But he didn’t stop being a dancer.Īfter Lions safety Kerby Joseph made an interception against the Raiders the night before Halloween, the Lions celebrated with an end zone dance from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video - choreographed by Hutchinson. Once Aidan was allowed to play tackle football, he gave up competitive dance. “Apparently that did it for those fifth-grade girls.” “He had this Justin Bieber hair that went to the side,” says Aria, now a med student at Wayne State. “All the girls loved me because I was the cool dancer, different from the classic athlete,” he says.Īria recalls talking with friends during school recess one day when she saw her brother sprint by on the playground. His mother tried to persuade him to enroll in dance, offering to buy him a Bakugan ball - a toy that opens into an anime action figure.īut the reaction wasn’t all adverse. This was before he was allowed to play tackle football, so he had time for another activity. And then they were so cool with their streetwear style.” I looked up to them the way they could pop it and lock it. “But this one had a bunch of Asian street dancers who were all just so sick. “Normally, a dance studio is almost all girls, but this one was almost half and half,” Aidan says. While the girls went through their routines, Aidan was mesmerized by a group of about 20 boys. It began when he came with his mother, Melissa, to watch Mia and their other sister, Aria, practice for their dance team. For about three years, starting at age 8, the dance studio was Hutchinson’s second home. To fully understand, we need to consider a building with mirrored walls and matted floors in a strip mall in Canton, Mich. How the Jared Goff-Ben Johnson partnership has elevated both of them - and the Lions “He peaked that night during ‘You Belong With Me’ and ‘Love Story,’” his sister Mia says. None of the other Swifties in the suite were more animated than Aidan. Hutchinson was in a private suite for the Eras Tour concert with family and friends, including some little girls. Not long ago, however, he was dancing at his home stadium wearing a pastel shirt and jorts - a tribute to Taylor Swift’s “Lover” album. It starts above his eyebrow and reaches a point on his cheek around his mouth. Hutchinson often dances at Ford Field wearing a Honolulu blue jersey, a silver helmet and eye black on one side of his face that he says prepares him for war. People see Hutchinson’s instinct and grit and they make assumptions.

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“You can really see his athleticism, the twitch he has in tight spaces, in that spin move, how he sets it up and how quickly he spins,” Lions defensive end Josh Paschal says. Hutchinson doing spin moves is kind of like 7-foot-4 Victor Wembanyama nailing 3s.īut Hutchinson goes to the spin frequently, maybe as often as six times a game, and it has worked, though he hasn’t had a sack in four games.

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That spin move could define the pass rusher who is third in the NFL in pressures per game (six behind Maxx Crosby and one behind Micah Parsons), according to Pro Football Focus.Īt 6-foot-7 and 265 pounds, Hutchinson looks like he’s built more for bull rushes and rips than a move borne of timing, precision and finesse. Then everything Hutchinson was and is came together with a glorious Stanky Leg. He created an open lane to a sack and celebrated, as always, with dance.

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