{"id":257737,"date":"2026-08-14T05:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/ahmed-hassanein-has-surprise-breakout-performance-in-lions-preseason-game\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:11:42","slug":"ahmed-hassanein-has-surprise-breakout-performance-in-lions-preseason-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/ahmed-hassanein-has-surprise-breakout-performance-in-lions-preseason-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Hassanein has surprise breakout performance in Lions&#8217; preseason game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/detroit_lions\/52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit Lions<\/a> have long been looking for a true partner for elite edge-rusher Aidan Hutchinson. It&#8217;s not an easy task to find someone who truly complements such a dynamic and explosive player.<\/p>\n<p>But, they may have gotten one step closer. On Thursday, the Lions went up against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati_bengals\/33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> in a preseason game, and even though the Lions lost, 16-14, one player on the squad won.<\/p>\n<p>That player is second-year Lions edge-rusher Ahmed Hassanein. He had the kind of game that could move him up on the depth chart.<\/p>\n<h2>Aidan Hutchinson and second-year edge-rusher could be a match made in heaven<\/h2>\n<p>During the game, Hassanein made a name for himself. He dominated by notching four tackles, three quarterback hits, two sacks, two tackles for loss and one forced fumble.<\/p>\n<p>His moment of the night was sacking Bengals franchise quarterback Joe Burrow early in the first quarter of the matchup. What&#8217;s not to love about that for any Lions fan? The performance shows that Hassanein has real potential to be a complement to Hutchinson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/ahmed_hassanein_has_surprise_breakout_performance_in_lions_preseason_game\/s1_13132_44172965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions have long been looking for a true partner for elite edge-rusher Aidan Hutchinson. It&#8217;s not an easy task to find someone who truly complements such a dynamic and explosive player. But, they may have gotten one step closer. On Thursday, the Lions went up against the Cincinnati Bengals in a preseason game, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}