Many fans know Lions running back Craig Reynolds at “Netflix” after his unexpected rise to prominence in 2021. That moniker came about when Reynolds told reporters he was “watching Netflix” when he got the call from the Lions to come to Detroit.
Now Reynolds is an established player. After rushing for 195 combined yards in his first two games in a Lions uniform in Weeks 13-14 last year, Reynolds proved there was no chill to his Netflix name. He earned a two-year contract and has asserted himself as the No. 3 RB in Detroit throughout the offseason.
And now it’s time for a new nickname. Reynolds, who admitted to me in a past interview that he “wasn’t thrilled” with the Netflix name, got a new one courtesy of his position coach, Duce Staley.
“Last year he was Netflix,” Staley told reporters last week on Reynolds. “He’s Hulu this year, right.”
Coach Staley elaborated,
“You’ve got to graduate each year. But man, I tell you Craig has been really working hard. And Craig is one of those guys you might have to tell, ‘hey man slow down for a second’. That’s during the offseason, that’s during the season. You’ve got to kind of pull him back a little bit. (Going hard) is all he knows, which I’m a big fan of.”