{"id":5032,"date":"2025-04-27T19:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/5032\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T19:31:10","slug":"caden-prieskorn-joins-detroit-lions-tiktok-stars-next-nfl-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/5032\/","title":{"rendered":"Caden Prieskorn Joins Detroit Lions: TikTok Star’s Next NFL Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many devoted TikTok users followed the 2025 NFL Draft<\/a> just to find out whether 3-year-old Mac Prieskorn would be able to see his dad, tight end Caden Prieskorn, play pro football in the league.<\/p>\n

Caden, 25, recently played for the University of Mississippi, where he was often supported by wife Cali Prieskorn and their children Mac and daughter Romy, 11 months. Mac subsequently went viral after Cali, 25, started sharing his game day traditions, including giving \u201clucky bumps\u201d to the team, via social media.<\/p>\n

After graduating from Ole Miss, Caden declared for the draft, which took place this weekend<\/a> in Green Bay, Wisconsin. While the tight end was not picked by any team, he later signed a contract with the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent.<\/p>\n

Now, what\u2019s an undrafted free agent? These are the NFL hopefuls who declared for the draft but were not chosen by any of the 32 teams during the seven-round, three-day draft process. As a result, they can sign a contract with any team afterward. Whether an athlete is drafted or signs on as a free agent, it doesn\u2019t mean they are confirmed on the 53-man roster<\/a> when the season starts. There will be multiple rounds of cuts until games kick off in the fall.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tCourtesy of Cali Prieskorn\/Instagram Collegiate tight end Caden Prieskorn and his wife, TikTok personality Cali Prieskorn, are navigating a long-distance marriage while he trains for the 2025 NFL draft. Caden, 25, recently finished his final year playing football for the University of Mississippi. At many of his games, he was supported by wife Cali, also [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

Cali, meanwhile, is excited for her husband\u2019s next steps as a football star.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDetroit Lions, please take care of Dada,\u201d she wrote via TikTok<\/a> on Saturday, April 26, sharing throwback game day footage of Caden and Mac. \u201cGod\u2019s Plan\ud83e\udd1e.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Caden now bound for Michigan, Cali doesn\u2019t plan to move with him just yet.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna build a stable home in Oxford, [Mississippi] and you can go soul-searching,\u2019\u201d she said on the \u201cSunday Sports Club\u201d podcas<\/a>t last month. \u201cI mean, you don\u2019t know. You could be cut and picked up and cut and picked up \u2014 and we do have the kids to think about and Mac is in school. Having that home to come back to and that stable place, where you can hang their clothes up in the closet and things like that is important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tGetty Images\/Courtesy of Allison Kuch\/Instagram Not every NFL athlete is signing a multimillion-dollar contract to play pro football, leaving their families to supplement their income elsewhere. \u201cI\u2019ll just set the record straight: We have multiple sources of income that we\u2019ve built over the past seven years,\u201d Allison Kuch, who is married to free agent Isaac [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

Cali and Caden are currently based in Oxford, Mississippi, near the Ole Miss campus.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe kind of just decided, like, \u2018Let\u2019s have a house in Oxford for now. Maybe, we\u2019ll pick a new home one day, but Oxford is home for us,\u201d she added to podcast host Allison Kuch. \u201cI think the unknowns are very hard, [and] he\u2019s projected to be a late-round pick or a free agent, which is borderline. I\u2019m almost, like, \u2018Well, if you\u2019re going to be a seventh-round [pick], you might as well let us pick where we\u2019re going.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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