Note: This is an opinion piece by MLive.com reporter Nate Atkins
ALLEN PARK -- Last year at this time, the Kenny Golladay hype train was bellowing down the race track. Everyone wants a rookie to fall in love with in camp, and after Jarrad Davis was about as expected and Teez Tabor struggled mightily, a third-round Northern Illinois receiver emerged as one of the top darlings of everyone's attention.
His season debut blew those hopes out of the stadium, when he caught a red-zone touchdown and then laid out for a Matthew Stafford bomb. The rest of the year, he looked like a rookie, fading behind the spotlight of better receivers on the team.