Heading into the NFL draft over the weekend, veteran color commentator Cris Collinsworth shared his thoughts on who the best player in college football was a year ago.
“Best college football player in the country last year and it wasn’t close. That’s Aidan Hutchinson.”
Hutchinson, the defensive end from Michigan, came off the board with the No. 2 pick to the Lions in the first-round of the draft on Thursday night.
Throughout the pre-draft process, Hutchinson was viewed as one of the premier pass rushers in the class, and the Lions and Collinsworth both saw it the same way as Detroit took him right near the top of the 2022 draft.