{"id":255363,"date":"2025-08-02T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/255363\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:30:33","slug":"its-like-the-daytona-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/255363\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s like the Daytona 500&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/nico-collins\/\" title=\"Nico Collins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nico Collins<\/a> will get his targets. The former Michigan product has developed into a top-10 receiving talent and a big-play machine. The rookies will be key to how the rest of the group pans out.<\/p>\n<p>Their defensive counterparts in camp have heaped praise on them early, particularly when asked about Higgins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Smooth receiver,&#8221; defensive back <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jalen-pitre\/\" title=\"Jalen Pitre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Pitre<\/a> said of Higgins. &#8220;Like you said, he&#8217;s very tall and very long, but he has every route in his arsenal. So, you definitely got to play him honest. Then, obviously, like we all would guess, when it&#8217;s up in the air, he&#8217;s going to go and get it. So, he&#8217;s a great playmaker for us to have. I&#8217;m excited about what the future holds for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If Higgins lives up to the early hype, he and Collins could form an imposing wideout duo for Stroud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We know Nico Collins will get his targets. The former Michigan product has developed into a top-10 receiving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[1227,1172,304,7,221,253,2368,8322,569,289,12206,88,6,533,609,222,8896],"class_list":{"0":"post-255363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-c-j-gardner-johnson","10":"tag-christian-kirk","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-texans","14":"tag-houstontexans","15":"tag-jalen-pitre","16":"tag-jayden-higgins","17":"tag-jaylin-noel","18":"tag-justin-watson","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-nico-collins","22":"tag-no-minute","23":"tag-texans","24":"tag-training-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114958003515314560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255363","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=255363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}