{"id":27175,"date":"2025-07-01T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=27175"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:10:47","slug":"the-top-4-detroit-lions-camp-darling-candidates-two-young-edge-rushers-should-gain-a-lot-of-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=27175","title":{"rendered":"The top 4 Detroit Lions camp darling candidates, two young edge rushers should gain a lot of notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/atozsports.com\/.image\/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_xy_center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620%2Cx_2459%2Cy_261\/MjE1OTczNzI2MjE3MzE1Njk1\/usatsi_26131644.jpg\" alt=\"USATSI_26131644\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Detroit Lions\u00a0will be heading to camp in 16 days when rookies report on July 16. The vets will be in the building a few days late on July 19. Then the search for this year&#8217;s camp darling gets going.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with what a camp darling is, it&#8217;s the underdog or the under-the-radar guy who gains everyone&#8217;s fandom after working hard. We listed our 10 favorite camp darlings on here earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to talk about the five guys we think could be everyone&#8217;s favorite camp darling this offseason. Here they are:<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"wr-jackson-meeks\">WR Jackson Meeks<\/h3>\n<p>I think you&#8217;re looking at a guy who can have that Isaiah Williams type camp from last year, Meeks is that guy. I believe he has a chance to make this 53-man roster over seventh-round pick Dominic Lovett due to the contested catch ability he brings. He&#8217;s a lot like Kenny Golladay in terms of play style. He won&#8217;t separate, but he&#8217;ll make that catch.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"edge-keith-cooper\">Edge Keith Cooper<\/h3>\n<p>Really wowed at rookie minicamp and then had a nice OTAs too. Now we&#8217;re going to see what he can do when the pads come on. Making the 53-man roster at edge is going to be hard to do, but this guy could lock himself into a practice squad spot with a solid summer.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"edge-isaac-ukwu\">Edge Isaac Ukwu<\/h3>\n<p>Ukwu was kind of a camp darling last year. He had a strong preseason and then got the chance to get two elevations during the regular season. We haven&#8217;t seen him in a while, and if he can come in and build off the 2024 season, he could potentially make the 53-man roster.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"s-ian-kennelly\">S Ian Kennelly<\/h3>\n<p>This is a fun story similar to Dylan Drummond&#8217;s in 2023. Kennelly is a Michigan guy from Division II Grand Valley State. He showed out at the Lions&#8217; local pro day, and that got him signed by Detroit after the draft.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s going to be part of a big battle for that fourth safety spot with three other guys, and being that he&#8217;s local, fans have reasons to get behind him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-lions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The top 4 Detroit Lions camp darling candidates, two young edge rushers should gain a lot of notice - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=27175\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The top 4 Detroit Lions camp darling candidates, two young edge rushers should gain a lot of notice - 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