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Lions Hand Out More Team Awards

Earlier this week, the Lions' official website announced that center Dominic Raiola was voted the team's top offensive lineman for 2011 by his teammates. Since then, the official site of the Lions has announced several other award winners for the 2011 season. Here's a rundown:

  • Mel Farr Rookie of the Year - WR Titus Young - Considering Nick Fairley dealt with a foot injury most of the season, Mikel Leshoure and Johnny Culbreath missed the entire season and Doug Hogue played mainly special teams, it's no surprise Young was named the Lions' top rookie for 2011.
  • Joe Schmidt Leadership Award - DE Kyle Vanden Bosch - KVB is the unquestioned leader of the defense. He and Nate Burleson are the ones who get the team pumped up before each game, which leads us to the next award ...
  • Mike Utley Spirit Award - WR Nate Burleson - Burleson and Vanden Bosch were signed at basically the same time in the 2010 offseason. In their two seasons in Detroit, both have had just as big of an impact off the field as they have had on the field for the Lions.
  • Yale Lary Special Teams MVP - K Jason Hanson and S John Wendling - There was a tie for this award between Hanson and Wendling. Hanson has now won this award six times after yet another solid year at kicker. Wendling picked up his first special teams MVP award for the Lions after having a good season on the coverage units.

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Totally agreed. Despite some silly behaviour he showed great improvement (and his best Td grab has been erased by incompetent zebras and stupid rule)

by RomanLion on Jan 21, 2012 4:57 AM EST up reply actions  

Titus did at least the minimum of what was expected.

That is, he caught more passes than Bryant Johnson and Derrick Williams combined last year.

Now he needs to work at hanging onto passes better, route-running, and not taking unnecessary penalties. Looking for an even better performance next year!

No slogans. Just win!!!

by drgarnett on Jan 22, 2012 12:49 PM EST up reply actions  

John Wendling

was he even on the team? Compared to Hanson there is no tie about it. the old man played fantastic this year.

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by The Profiler on Jan 20, 2012 9:21 PM EST reply actions  

WTF

don’t they know that we need to ship KVB, Burleson, Suh, Stafford and CJ out of town before it’s too late?

by Lionsickness on Jan 20, 2012 11:30 PM EST reply actions  

unless

of course, they are all willing to take a 60% pay cut.

by Lionsickness on Jan 20, 2012 11:31 PM EST up reply actions  

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