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The Valenti Show

Ennis Rakestraw Jr. Placed On IR, Will Miss Full Season

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

3.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Valenti and Rico react to the official news that Lions CB Ennis Rakestraw Jr. has been placed in Injured Reserve, effectively ending his 2025 season.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, breaking news from the We Don't Understand the salary cap y'all update desk.

0:06.0

Kenny.

0:09.7

Kenny?

0:11.8

And Kenney has split his headphones on.

0:13.9

Sorry, fellas.

0:15.3

An artistie station.

0:16.7

You know what?

0:17.5

Better you do that now than a couple of hours from now.

0:20.0

We have Breaking Lions news if Kenny could ever have his headset on. Go ahead. Lions cornerback to Ennis Rake Straw to undergo season-ending surgery. May as well be career-ending. You can't come to the NFL and not play your first two years and all of a sudden. Hi, it's me again. So Rake Straw out, the safety they liked out. He's out for the year.

0:40.8

I don't know. What do you want me to say? Eli Apple's available. You can have him. One of the most hated New York Giants in history. He was reviled in that locker room.

0:51.4

Look, it's sad. I don't blame the kid. I liked him at Mizzou, pit bull type corner,

0:57.9

very similar to an amicrobertson, attitude, physicality. He'll come up and hit you, but availability

1:04.2

is a skill. He's going to miss his second straight season. What am I going to do with that?

1:08.1

Yeah, I mean, your only body of work is what he did at Missouri. So, yeah, it's going to be very interesting to see what his comeback career path is going to be next season. Or do you just, if you're the lions, you bite the bullet and say, we're just going to move on. We've got to find somebody. What is the, so hold on, you got DJ Reed, we've got,

1:27.7

uh, amic, I mean, what is the, what is the, how, how concerned do I need to be?

1:33.9

Obviously, Terry and Arnold is a linchpin to this deal. He was largely terrible last year.

1:39.1

Terry and Arnold plays well. If, if you can keep Arnold and Reed healthy, you figure out the rest. But they are incurring

1:48.0

some injuries. And when you stack it to the status of Pascal, the status of Ty Leak, the status

1:54.2

of long term of Aline McNeil, etc. No, I mean, you just don't want to lose players. I mean,

2:00.7

they drafted this kid to play.

2:04.3

And now he's got no shot.

2:07.1

Right.

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