Follett: From the flu to a 'full rage'
Zack Follett promised to "bring some fire" to the Lions' special teams units when the Lions promoted him from the practice squad a month ago.
Sunday, he certainly provided a spark with a clean, crushing hit on kickoff coverage that left the Rams' Danny Amendola with a concussion. Not bad for a guy who was still recovering from a serious bout with the flu late in the week, missing practice Wednesday and Thursday while on team-mandated quarantine.
"I think I had some angels with me or something," Follett joked Monday.
Follett's hit on Amendola came in the fourth quarter immediately after Matthew Stafford scored and added a two-point conversion to tie it at 10-10. And the rookie linebacker out of Cal admitted Monday there was some pent-up energy there on that hit.
Said Follett: "I had a hit kind of like that in the preseason, and I was all mad: I was like, 'Did I waste my only good play in the preseason?' I've been hungry for that. ...
"When I came down on kickoff, the front-line guy tried to block me. I take that guy on with, like, a full rage, because you've got to hit him to get to the ballcarrier. Once I dumped him, I tried to fill the lane, and they're running a return that I know. He opened up right in the lane, and the rest was history."
