{"id":41206,"date":"2025-05-11T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T08:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/41206\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T08:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T08:27:21","slug":"bills-max-hairston-trying-to-get-up-to-speed-at-rookie-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/41206\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills&#8217; Max Hairston trying to get up to speed at rookie camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s like the first day of school for the Buffalo Bills\u2019 newest draft class, who are practicing for the first time at rookie camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s top pick, Max Hairston, is trying to get up to speed as quickly as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery anxious,\u201d\u00a0Hairston said. \u201cI was like a little kid trying to go to sleep before Christmas last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hairston was the fastest man at the NFL Scouting Combine, but how quickly he adapts to the NFL game will determine how quickly he can contribute to the defense this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a lot,\u201d\u00a0Hairston said. \u201cJust adjust from the college game to this. I enjoyed myself. A lot to work on, but it just felt good to get my feet wet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maxhairstoncamp2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"Spectrum News 1\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spectrum News 1<\/p>\n<p>Much of that development comes from lessons learned from coaches in the meeting rooms and from applying the playbook to what happens on the grass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re throwing a lot. It\u2019s a different game now and just adjusting from my college terms to now my Buffalo Bills terms,\u201d\u00a0Hairston said.<\/p>\n<p>Hairston\u2019s speed is immediately clear watching him on the field, and he\u2019s already spending time after practice working with a fellow defensive back, Dorian Strong, on what it will take to be at their best at this level.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s like the first day of school for the Buffalo Bills\u2019 newest draft class, who are practicing for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2048],"tags":[3829,1615,1613,215,214,53,2086,7,88,6,1612,9,1004,3828],"class_list":{"0":"post-41206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-andy-young","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-bills","12":"tag-buffalo","13":"tag-buffalo-bills","14":"tag-buffalobills","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-rochester","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114488255715868865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206","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=41206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}