LAS VEGAS — Aidan Hutchinson huddled with his family in the green room before the start of Thursday's NFL draft and got choked up as his mother, Melissa, delivered a pep talk for the ages to Michigan's first family of football.
"It was like, 'Whoever doesn’t pick you, screw them,'" Hutchinson told the Free Press in a hallway at the Caesars Forum conference center. "Whoever picks me is going to get me and all of me and the whole fam, so that was kind of the pep talk. Everyone was getting a little emotional. I was getting a little emotional before I even got picked.