{"id":237516,"date":"2025-07-26T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/237516\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:40:10","slug":"lb-jack-campbell-taking-ownership-of-detroit-lions-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/237516\/","title":{"rendered":"LB Jack Campbell taking ownership of Detroit Lions&#8217; defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But maybe one of the most important defenders for the Lions in 2025 will be MIKE linebacker <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/jack-campbell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jack Campbell<\/a>. The third-year linebacker out of Iowa has really taken ownership of Kelvin Sheppard&#8217;s defense, and he and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/alex-anzalone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Anzalone<\/a> are kind of the glue in the middle that connects the front four to the back end and makes it work seamlessly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had the honor of coaching Jack since he was drafted,&#8221; said Sheppard, who was Campbell&#8217;s position coach his first two seasons before taking over as DC this season. &#8220;Jack&#8217;s a player, out of everybody, he&#8217;s never had any other voice in his head. He knows what I&#8217;m thinking, we&#8217;re in lockstep with one another, and we spend a lot of time together, quite frankly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But maybe one of the most important defenders for the Lions in 2025 will be MIKE linebacker Jack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,416,16688,147,415,31439,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-237516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroitlions","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","13":"tag-jack-campbell","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-news-twentyman","16":"tag-news-training-camp","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114919350275647771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237516","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=237516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}