{"id":118705,"date":"2025-06-10T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/118705\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:56:11","slug":"dan-campbell-likes-what-he-sees-from-lions-rookie-ahmed-hassanein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/118705\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Campbell likes what he sees from Lions rookie Ahmed Hassanein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/lions-assistant-gm-looking-growth-130417405.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ahmed Hassanein;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmed Hassanein<\/a> remains something of an <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/lions-rookie-ahmed-hassanein-given-085232594.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:international man of mystery;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">international man of mystery<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/detroit-lions\/334\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Lions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Lions<\/a>. Even after the rookie minicamp and OTAs, it&#8217;s hard to pin down just how much the sixth-round rookie will contribute at defensive end for Detroit in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Hassanein is still a greenhorn as a football player. Despite playing 48 games over four seasons at Boise State, Hassanein remains technically raw. That&#8217;s because he grew up in Egypt, not playing football until he returned to California during high school.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The pads haven&#8217;t come on during practices yet, so it&#8217;s tough to gauge Hassanein&#8217;s overall skill level. This much is obvious: he&#8217;s extremely high-energy and passionate. Lions head coach Dan Campbell has taken notice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like his intensity, I like his urgency, he seems to be a pretty smart guy,&#8221; Campbell said of Hassanein prior to the final OTA session. &#8220;There\u2019s things he\u2019s going to have to learn from. He\u2019s a little bit raw. But there\u2019s nothing that tells me, \u2018Man, I don\u2019t like this guy,\u2019 or, \u2018He\u2019s miles away,\u2019 or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Campbell did caution that &#8220;his reps were walkthrough. He didn\u2019t get live reps &#8211; we had to back off on some things.&#8221; Still, it&#8217;s easy to see why No. 61 appealed to the Lions in the draft process. Expect Hassanein to be a popular figure once training camp fires up and the Lions fans get to see the enthusiastic rookie at work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/did-pre-draft-scouting-reports-115640639.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:What did the pre-draft scouting reports say about Lions EDGE Ahmed Hassanein?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What did the pre-draft scouting reports say about Lions EDGE Ahmed Hassanein?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Lions Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/lionswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/lions\/2025\/06\/10\/dan-campbell-ahmed-hassanein-rookie-evaluation-lions-otas\/84119879007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dan Campbell likes what he sees from Lions rookie DE Ahmed Hassanein;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dan Campbell likes what he sees from Lions rookie DE Ahmed Hassanein<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahmed Hassanein remains something of an international man of mystery for the Detroit Lions. Even after the rookie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[2508,6214,146,113,2506,7,147,6,3243],"class_list":{"0":"post-118705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-ahmed-hassanein","9":"tag-dan-campbell","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-lions","12":"tag-detroitlions","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-rookie-minicamp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114659182824919979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}