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Buzz on Kenny Golladay keeps growing after Week 1 breakthrough

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ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- TJ Jones saw the crowd coming, looked over at the rookie and shook his head.

“Hey, Kenny,” Jones said. “You’re going to have to go talk in the middle of the locker room.”

The Detroit press corps standing around Kenny Golladay laughed. One game into his rookie season, Golladay has become a focal point for attention after two big touchdown catches.

There’s been a buzz around Golladay since the Lions made him their third-round pick. Consistent performances in unpadded practices caught praise. The nicknames also came quickly, with the three most common being “Kenny G,” an easy shortening of his name that turns him into the jazz saxophonist; “The Golladay Inn"; and “Babytron,” the latter coined by J.