Wide receiver Malik Nabers, a first-round pick of the New York Giants, purchased a home as a Mother’s Day gift for his mother. But it doesn’t seem like Detroit Lions first-round cornerback Terrion Arnold will be as nice to his mother this weekend. Arnold has a close relationship with his mother. On May 10, the rookie cornerback referred to his mother as his “rock” in front of reporters. However, she appears to be a rock who enjoys getting rough
When I used to race against my mother as a child, I had to really defeat her. We used to fight when I was younger, just wrestle or play,” Arnold told reporters. “Man, I’ll never forget, one time, my mom kicked my tooth out cause we was just going at it so hard.”
If that kind of relationship taught Arnold anything, it’s that he won’t allow anyone stand in the way of his NFL dreams. “If my mom was out here right now, and she lined up across from me as a receiver, I’d jam her into the dirt,” Arnold remarked. “That is my thinking, and my mother is aware of it.
“But I just mean it as a simple aspect of football wise, that’s just the way that I think and the way I was brought up.”
Terrion Arnold Fits With the Detroit Lions
Talking about knocking down your own mother will be excessive for some, especially on Mother’s Day weekend. But if the Lions created a first-round cornerback in a laboratory, he would probably have an attitude exactly like Arnold’s.
After all, Detroit’s head coach is Dan Campbell, who mentioned biting off kneecaps in his opening press conference with the team in January 2021.
“There might be a long distance from biting the kneecap of an opposing player to jamming your mother in the dirt if she lined up against you, but it speaks to Arnold’s commitment to giving the Lions everything he’s got no matter the situation,” Adam Wells of Bleacher Report wrote.
It’s no surprise that the Lions needed to add young cornerbacks to their roster this summer. However, Arnold’s perspective was most certainly a major factor in Detroit trading up from No. 29 to No. 24 to assure the cornerback was selected in the 2024 NFL draft.
