DETROIT -- At the 12:50 mark in the fourth quarter of the Lions ' Week 2 game against the Chicago Bears , Aidan Hutchinson took five gleeful steps toward the near sideline. First, he angled his head down and flanked his arms like airplane wings. Then, as his pace slowed, he stretched them out wide and lifted his head toward the Ford Field ceiling.

As a majority of the 64,201 Lions fans in attendance stood and celebrated in the seats around him, Hutchinson fixed his eyes upward, brought both hands to his face mask and then back out again, as if giving the emotional scene around him a kiss. Then, as his gaze turned to the appreciative fans, he repeated the gesture again, and then again.

It was a moment Hutchinson had waited 336 days to experience again. Seconds before, he had beaten

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