Jason Hanson was able to kick a little bit in today’s practice but is still far from perfect.  Below are some answers Hanson gave to the media’s questions today.

Was it an ATV accident that caused your injury?

 Here is the official word. I cut my left knee with my family. I have some stitches in it. Honestly, I don’t remember how many. A decent little cut. The point is this, everybody at the Lions knows every detail of what happened. I don’t feel like I was irresponsible. I didn’t think I was putting myself at any risk. I was with my kids, so the actual details, the Lions know and I’m not saying. I don’t feel like I’m hiding anything. It’s just that I don’t feel like telling the whole story to everybody. Other than that, I hope to be ready for this week’s game. It’s terrible timing. I can’t believe that it happened. Again, I said this to everyone at the Lions, I’m super sorry. Terrible week for this to happen, but my guilt level is pretty low as far as I didn’t feel like I was doing anything to hurt the team. That’s where it stands. I kicked a little bit today. It felt decent. Tomorrow we’ll be able to tell if I can be up for this week.

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With the signing of Rayner, the Lions now have a competition between him and Jason Hanson.  As we all know, Hanson has been the Lions kicker since I was born, 1992.  Hanson has had minor surgeries the past two years but it didn’t affect him getting back before the start of the season.  Jason Hanson is now 41 years old and is entering the end of his career.  However, the new kickoff rules will help him and give him a better chance to stay with the Lions.  In my opinion, I see the Lions sticking with Hanson.  We know Hanson will always be reliable for the Lions (82 percent on his field goals in all his years for the team) where as Rayner had a great year last year, but has bounced from team to team in the past.
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