{"id":9936,"date":"2025-01-10T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=9936"},"modified":"2025-01-10T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:52:14","slug":"breaking-injuries-werent-only-hurdle-aaron-glenn-had-with-detroit-lions-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=9936","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Injuries weren\u2019t only hurdle Aaron Glenn had with Detroit Lions defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/tIrqG87v-lvPyBqZuTvOzFRBMu4=\/0x0:5400x3600\/1200x800\/filters:focal(2609x1098:3473x1962)\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/73838152\/1608987476.0.jpg\" alt=\"Injuries weren't only hurdle Aaron Glenn had with Detroit Lions defense -  Pride Of Detroit\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"slCLN6\">We all know that the Detroit Lions defense had to battle through the adversity of injuries in 2024. If you needed any visual evidence of just how devastated the Lions\u2019 roster was by injuries, this chart from Sports Info Solutions visualizes it pretty well.<\/p>\n<p id=\"RLvioi\">Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn has done as well as possible navigating through those injuries, finding players that fit his scheme, and coaching them up in short periods of time to get playable performances out of them.<\/p>\n<p id=\"v0Q0Cg\">But that\u2019s not the only unique challenge that faced Glenn this year. ESPN\u2019s Bill Barnwell calculated each team\u2019s \u201csnap-weighted age,\u201d\u2014meaning the average age of players who were actually out there on the field. And according to Barnwell, the Lions sported the youngest defense in football, with an average age of just 25.8 years old.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Final snap-weighted age data for the 2024 regular season<\/p>\n<p>Five oldest teams: Vikings, Dolphins, Falcons, Browns, 49ers<\/p>\n<p>Five youngest teams: Packers, Giants, Raiders, Cardinals, Chargers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5azJUwKbPT\">pic.twitter.com\/5azJUwKbPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billbarnwell\/status\/1876848695464869922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"BnFvxU\">Certainly, injuries exacerbated Detroit\u2019s move toward younger players. The injury to Marcus Davenport (28 years old) forced Detroit to play players like Josh Paschal (25) and Levi Onwuzurike (26) more than originally planned. However, some of this simply reflects the core of Detroit\u2019s very young defense, including some of their superstars. Alim McNeill is just 24, Kerby Joseph is 24, Brian Branch is 23, Terrion Arnold is 21, Jack Campbell is 24, and Aidan Hutchinson is 24.<\/p>\n<p id=\"G9pTds\">Having a strong, young foundation on defense not only bodes well for the future, but it showcases just how good of a talent developer and teacher Glenn is. He\u2019s taken several of these guys, developed them over the years, and produced a top-10 defense in most metrics. It\u2019s why coach Dan Campbell believes Glenn is finally ready for a head coaching job.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QLBHq4\">\u201cHe\u2019s as good a coach as you\u2019re going to find, he\u2019s an even better human being,\u201d Campbell said this week. \u201cLook, if nobody wants him, I\u2019ll take him again. I can tell you that right now. The thought of going through another cycle and he\u2019s not somebody\u2019s head coach is ridiculous. I mean this guy is as good as they come, and he can do it all. He understands how to manage a game, he understands offense, defense, special teams, he knows how to communicate, he understands discipline of players and he\u2019s motivating. He\u2019s inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"82tmFk\">You may notice, too, that the Lions have one of the <em>oldest<\/em> offenses, ranking third with an average age of 28.1. Much of that is reflected at offensive line (Kevin Zeitler, Graham Glasgow, and Taylor Decker are all 31 or over) and quarterback (Jared Goff is 30). But some of Detroit\u2019s best players on offense are also really young, including Amon-Ra St. Brown (25), Jameson Williams (23), Jahmyr Gibbs (22), Sam LaPorta (23) and Penei Sewell (24). So if Detroit can start replacing their aging offensive line with younger talent, the Lions will be in plenty of good shape in the future and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions didn\u2019t just have the most injured defense in football, it was also the youngest in the NFL&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-lions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Injuries weren\u2019t only hurdle Aaron Glenn had with Detroit Lions defense - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=9936\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Injuries weren\u2019t only hurdle Aaron Glenn had with Detroit Lions defense - 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