Lions announce captains for 2024 season, including 1 first-timer

The Detroit Lions have named six players as their 2024 team captains, and one of them is a first-timer.

The Detroit Lions announced on Monday the six players who will serve as captains for the 2024 season. They are Jared Goff, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Penei Sewell, Aidan Hutchinson, Alex Anzalone, and Jalen Reeves-Maybin.

Last year, the Lions’ six captains were Goff, St. Brown, Sewell, Anzalone, Charles Harris and Reeves-Maybin. Goff and Anzalone have now both been team captains for each year under coach Dan Campbell. Sewell and St. Brown—two players who received big contract extensions this offseason— enter their second consecutive season as team captains. Reeves-Maybin is also entering his second straight season as captain, although he served as captain in a previous stint with the Lions.

Of course, that leaves us with Hutchinson, the Lions’ first-round pick in 2022. This marks the first time in his Lions career he has been named captain. He was a two-time captain at Michigan, so it’s not all that surprising to see him take over that role again at the NFL level, particularly after leading the Lions in sacks for two consecutive seasons.

“Hutch has been unbelievable this offseason, and I think he’s made huge, huge, huge strides from the time I arrived until where we are now,” new defensive line coach Terrell Williams said this summer. “It’s not me, it’s him studying tape. It’s him asking questions. Everybody sees big, tall 97 with long arms and Mr. Michigan, and all this other stuff, but what you don’t see is the time this guy puts in.

“And he’s constantly asking questions, studying tape and studying other players, and working on his crazy. He’s an extremely coachable player. I love the guy because of what he’s about. He’s about getting better. He’s not about the glamour and glitz, he’s just a grinder. We need a lot more guys that have that mentality.”