{"id":143582,"date":"2025-06-20T00:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T00:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/143582\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T00:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T00:37:12","slug":"lions-cornerback-hyped-up-by-kerby-joseph-ahead-of-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/143582\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions Cornerback Hyped Up by Kerby Joseph Ahead of 2025 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lions Cornerback Hyped Up by Kerby Joseph Ahead of 2025 Season<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Detroit Lions NFL First-Team All-Pro Safety Kerby Joseph is known as one of the most instinctive and gifted secondary players in the league, a ballhawking safety who knows how to play within the confines of a defense, and freelance when needed.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, Joseph took to his social media account to share candid thoughts on a player he believes could make a big splash in 2025-26 after he was selected in the second round of the 2024 NFL draft.<\/p>\n

Joseph’s post got 35,000 page views as fans attempted to converse with the Lions star over his latest hot take.<\/p>\n

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Ennis Rakestraw watches practice on May 30 in Allen Park, Michigan. \u00a9 Junfu Han &sol; USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

“Year 2 Ennis Rakestraw is gonna go crazy,” ‘The Detroit Times’ wrote on X Thursday, which prompted an enthusiastic response from Joseph.<\/p>\n

“Facts bro in dat 9 mf,” Joseph said, referring to the former Missouri Tigers star’s new uniform number.<\/p>\n

“He’s gonna be a demon,” the Times wrote back<\/a> with a ‘100’ emoji.<\/p>\n

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“THE BEST SECONDARY IN THE NFL,” another page wrote with a cartoon of three Lions players.<\/p>\n

“LFG,” another fan wrote with a ‘9LIONS’ license plate.<\/p>\n

“Yo bro stretch those damn hammys…We needed him last year,” another fan added<\/a> about Rakestraw.<\/p>\n

A 5-foot-11, 188 pound cornerback, Rakestraw played in eight games for coach Dan Campbell’s team, compiling four tackles.<\/p>\n

He is known for his pestering, physical coverage style, length and athleticism and could provide a solid to good or better option alongside Robertson, Joseph, Brian Branch and other top defenders in the Lions’ backfield this season.<\/p>\n

Related: Fourth-and-Go: NFL Teams Are More Aggressive Than Ever on Fourth Down<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 19, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions Cornerback Hyped Up by Kerby Joseph Ahead of 2025 Season originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Detroit Lions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[1524,146,113,2506,6296,7,3220,147,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-143582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-brian-branch","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-ennis-rakestraw","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-kerby-joseph","15":"tag-lions","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114712900310452821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143582","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=143582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}