{"id":858590,"date":"2026-04-07T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858590\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:23:20","slug":"whats-behind-makai-lemons-stare-is-everything-nfl-teams-covet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858590\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind Makai Lemon&#8217;s stare is everything NFL teams covet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Simmons has been on the receiving end of a soul-piercing Makai Lemon stare.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/27\/sports\/ex-usc-receiver-makai-lemon-goes-viral-over-nfl-combine-interview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went viral on social media at the NFL combine<\/a> for the way his eyes locked on a reporter and his shoulders rolled as he spoke about modeling his game after fellow former USC standout Amon-Ra St. Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Was that something new?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMakai is the most competitive person you are ever going to meet in your life,\u201d Simmons, USC\u2019s receivers coach, told The Post. \u201cHe\u2019s doesn\u2019t really say much, so you are kind of wondering, \u2018Is he engaged? Is he interested? Is he listening to the conversation?\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dennis Simmons has been on the receiving end of a soul-piercing Makai Lemon stare. Lemon went viral on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,15,15729,9,3248,8242],"class_list":{"0":"post-858590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-draft","11":"tag-nfl-draft-2026","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-usc-trojans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116362700939607265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858590","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=858590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}