Aidan Hutchinson still hasn’t really watched the replay of his devastating leg injury this season, though he did glimpse at it once. And “to see your own body contort like that,” well, Hutchinson had already lived it. Why re-live it?

“I was on the ground and I grabbed my leg and I felt my fibula sticking out,” Hutchinson said Thursday on the Pat McAfee Show ahead of Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. “I was like, ‘Well, it’s broken. There’s that.'”

Next week will mark four months since Hutchinson fractured his tibia and fibula in the Lions’ win over the Cowboys back in October. From the start, he set an ambitious goal of returning for the Super Bowl had the Lions made it, despite the standard recovery time for his injury being four to six months. He said in December that he was “on track” to do it.

Asked Thursday if he would have made it back in time, Hutchinson said, “You never know. I think so. Maybe I wouldn’t, maybe I would. The world will never know, though. I feel good. We’ll be wrapping up rehab pretty soon and then I’m gonna move on with my life.”

Rehab, Hutchinson said, was “the worst.” While he had already been through a season-ending injury when he fractured his ankle at Michigan, “this one, that tibia break was an absolute monster.”

“I stayed in the hospital in Dallas for a couple days after I got hurt there, and those were probably the two most miserable days I’ve ever had in my whole life. Questioning (if things were going to be OK), got the damn beeping going off in the hospital the whole time, you can’t sleep, people are coming in there checking your vitals every two minutes. So, I’m happy I’m done with that,” he said.

Hutchinson, 24, was off to a torrid start in his third NFL season. He had 7.5 sacks in five games — a record pace — plus 45 quarterback pressures. He finished with the best defensive grade in the league, per Pro Football Focus. It wasn’t the injury itself that hurt the most.

“Despite the pain, being ripped out of that season and knowing what I could have done and what could have been, that’s what I have the hardest time with,” he said. “But then again, I’m going into year four next year, so I’m young and I got a lot of good football left and I know I can pick up on it.”

Hutchinson is one of several homegrown stars on the Lions’ roster. He and safety Kerby Joseph are next in line for extensions, which could happen this offseason. When he was asked about Dan Campbell, who’s under contract through 2027 after signing an extension with Detroit last year, Hutchinson noted, “I’m probably gonna be there with him now. He got extended for God knows when, so we’ll probably be together for a while.”

Including his fifth-year option, Hutchinson is under contract through 2026. More immediately, the Lions have several key free agents to make decisions on this offseason, especially on defense in the likes of cornerback Carlton Davis III, linebacker Derrick Barnes and defensive lineman Levi Onwuzurike.

“It’s gonna get a little weird this offseason, a little crazy,” said Hutchinson. “We’ll see who they’re gonna keep, and who they won’t.”