{"id":242090,"date":"2025-07-28T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/242090\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:43:10","slug":"ravens-rookie-malachi-starks-amazed-at-kyle-hamiltons-football-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/242090\/","title":{"rendered":"Raven\u2019s rookie Malachi Starks amazed at Kyle Hamilton\u2019s football IQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the NFL draft, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a> used its first-round pick on <a href=\"https:\/\/ugawire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a> safety Malaki Starks, with the intention for pairing him up with former Notre Dame superstar Kyle Hamilton to make an elite duo.<\/p>\n<p>While the rookie hasn\u2019t been with the team long, he already knows that he\u2019s going to be playing alongside one of the best in the NFL. When asked about his new teammate, he gave a glowing review of Hamilton. \u201cThere\u2019s levels, and Kyle is on that top level\u2026 He\u2019s so smart,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ravens\/status\/1948843829550891382?s=61&amp;t=nW7PCouJbinxzoQ7zhCi_g\" rel=\"nofollow\">Starks to the media on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are seeing it once again, that Hamilton isn\u2019t just a great football player, but a leader inside the locker room. His professional career is off to an amazing start, as he\u2019s made the Pro Bowl twice, was a First-team All-Pro in 2023, and a Second-team All-Pro in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The duo could be roaming the Raven\u2019s secondary for years to come, and it could turn out to be one of the best set of safeties in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/IrishWireND\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@IrishWireND<\/a>\u00a0on X (Formerly Twitter), and like our page on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheFightingIrishWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Notre Dame news, notes, and opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Mike on X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mikefchen?s=21&amp;t=nW7PCouJbinxzoQ7zhCi_g\" rel=\"nofollow\">@MikeFChen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the NFL draft, the Baltimore Ravens used its first-round pick on Georgia safety Malaki Starks, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[3689,247,265,184,117,2282,630,318,339,1961,3690,1962,7,629,4844,4420,3688,20842,1963,1092,1506,248,267,88,6,1960,641,245,537,530,169,326,21400,9,266,678,3691],"class_list":{"0":"post-242090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-baltimore","12":"tag-baltimore-ravens","13":"tag-baltimoreravens","14":"tag-bulldogs","15":"tag-college","16":"tag-college-sports","17":"tag-dame","18":"tag-enabled","19":"tag-fighting","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-georgia","22":"tag-georgia-bulldogs-football","23":"tag-hamilton","24":"tag-highlights","25":"tag-hub","26":"tag-irish","27":"tag-kyle","28":"tag-kyle-hamilton","29":"tag-national","30":"tag-national-sports","31":"tag-news","32":"tag-nfl","33":"tag-notre","34":"tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish-football","35":"tag-overall","36":"tag-overall-positive","37":"tag-positive","38":"tag-ravens","39":"tag-sec","40":"tag-sec-hub","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-sports-news","43":"tag-story","44":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242090","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=242090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}