DETROIT – Jeff Okudah could not stop crying.
Hours after limping off in the fourth quarter of the Detroit Lions’ 2021 season opener against the San Francisco 49ers, the cornerback was in the passenger seat of his Mercedes-Benz G-Class parked outside of Ford Field, waiting for his aunt, Jane Obodo, to drive him home.
“When he got in the car and shut the door, he broke down crying,” Obodo told ESPN. “I’m telling you, I have never seen this kid this devastated before. He was just sobbing and just crying profusely.