“It’s a credit to him, but it’s the process is, you have to become a known player and so not only is a credit to what he did this year but really to what he’s done in his seven years in this league and he’s earned notoriety and everybody out there knows who he is and on top of that he goes out there and plays really well and has a great year, so he’s able to get that. But I was distraught for these other two guys cause I think they were deserving as well, so to see him finally get that, to me was outstanding for him personally.”
Reeves-Maybin is tied for the NFL lead with 13 special teams tackles and has played a key role in both of the Lions’ fake punt conversions this season.
Reeves-Maybin ran for a conversion on a fourth-and-2 in the Lions’ Week 1 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, and he completed a 31-yard pass to Khalil Dorsey on a fourth-and-2 in last week’s loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
“God, the throw was incredible,” Fipp said. "My high school coach told me one time a long, long time ago, we were watching a baseball game at our high school and this kid turned a double play. He snared a ball, turned a double play, just out of nowhere. He said to me, he looked at me and said, ‘Hey, David, I’m just telling you, that guy just made a play.’ He’s like one day you’re going to be asked what happened and you’re just going to have to say, ‘That guy made a play.’
“I mean, that’s really what Jerm did in that moment, he just made a play. Like he just threw a great ball. (Jalen Tolbert) wasn’t terrible in coverage for them. He wheeled back around and then Dorsey made a great catch and saw the ball all the way in with his hands, his eyes, he locked it away on the way down. So it was a great job by those guys.”
