Malcolm Rodriguez, the man around the Lions franchise affectionately referred to as “Rodrigo,” is one popular man around Detroit in part because of his stardom on Hard Knocks but largely because of what he’s showed on the field in the lead-up to his rookie season.
The second-most popular man, to be precise.
In the season finale of the HBO show that has followed the team throughout training camp, Rod Wood, the team’s President and CEO, revealed to viewers that Rodriguez’s jersey is the second-most requested — behind only No. 2 overall pick Aiden Hutchinson.
“We’ve created a monster,” Lions coach Dan Campbell quipped to his boss.