Seahawks rookie LB Aaron Curry gets his shot against Lions

Seahawks rookie LB Aaron Curry gets his shot against Lions
John Niyo The Detroit News
November 07, 2009 20:42 PM

Allen Park -- A week after getting heckled by a small group of fans late in a loss to St. Louis, Matthew Stafford might find himself in another awkward spot Sunday at Seattle: getting harassed by Seahawks rookie Aaron Curry, the linebacker Lions fans were clamoring for as the top pick before the draft in April.

Stafford was the Lions' choice with the No. 1 overall choice, but at the team's new logo unveiling the week of the draft, fans chanted, "Cur-ry! Cur-ry!" and "Don't draft Staf-ford!" while team president Tom Lewand laughed, perhaps a bit uncomfortably.

Curry might have been the Lions' fallback choice at the top of the draft, but he ended up going fourth to Seattle after the Lions hammered out a six-year, $72 million deal with Stafford the night before the draft.

So is it time for a little payback as the Seahawks (2-5) host Stafford and the 1-6 Lions at noisy Qwest Field on Sunday?

"I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm going to personalize this game to Detroit for passing me up or anything," Curry said Thursday in an interview on WDFN 1130. "Every game I go out there and play every Sunday, my plan is to make my opponents pay just for being my opponent."

Still, this opponent is a little more familiar, he admits.

"I always gave myself a shot," said Curry, who visited Allen Park at the same time newly acquired linebacker Julian Peterson did back in March. "I thought they were looking at me legitimately to be the No. 1 pick overall in the draft, and I was just excited to be mentioned in the same sentence."

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