{"id":1935,"date":"2025-04-26T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1935\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:28:11","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-new-chargers-edge-kyle-kennard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1935\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things to Know About New Chargers EDGE Kyle Kennard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chargers continued to add to the defense on Saturday, selecting edge rusher <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/round-4-nfl-draft-kyle-kennard-south-carolina-edge-rusher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyle Kennard<\/a> in the fourth round (No. 125 overall) of the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Get all of your Bolts draft news at the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chargers 2025 Draft Hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five things to know about the South Carolina edge rusher:<\/p>\n<p>Kennard capped off his college career with one of the best defensive seasons in South Carolina&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The edge rusher shined for the Gamecocks, logging 28 tackles including 15.5 tackles for loss and 11.5 sacks in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>His tackle for loss number was the fourth-most in program history for a season, while his sack total was second-highest. Both led the SEC last season.<\/p>\n<p>Kennard also forced three fumbles and recovered two, becoming a game wrecker in his lone season with South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say the accolades piled up quickly for Kennard after his last season.<\/p>\n<p>Kennard earned First-Team All-American accolades by multiple outlets and won the SEC Defensive Player of the Year award after leading the conference in multiple categories.<\/p>\n<p>He became the first South Carolina player to win the award since Jadeveon Clowney won it in 2012, as he also earned First-Team All-SEC honors.<\/p>\n<p>Kennard also won the Bronko Nagurski Trophy following his season, awarded to the top defensive player in college football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers continued to add to the defense on Saturday, selecting edge rusher Kyle Kennard in the fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,37,884,7,34,38,49,48,772],"class_list":{"0":"post-1935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-2025-draft","9":"tag-app-homepage","10":"tag-articles-5-thing-to-know","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-cp","13":"tag-homepage-headlines","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-football","16":"tag-tre-harris"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114405684626147349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","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=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}