Notes: NFL analyst calls Chris Spielman’s influence underrated

Photo by Amy Lemus/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesMost fans know how instrumental Chris Spielman has been in the Detroit Lions transformation, but one analyst believes the rest of the world doesn’t know — but should.

Speaking at the NFL Combine this weekend, team reporter Dannie Rogers asked league analyst Charles Davis what he saw in this Lions squad that told him they were going perform well this season.

“The things that started with Mrs. Hamp hiring Chris Spielman,” he said. “I think that kind of went below the radar. Ex-Lion coming back to be kind of a special assistant and all that — there’s an influence that he has that I don’t think gets appreciated by the national people.”

After eight years…