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If you think Maxwell Hairston is going to shy away from the cold weather in Buffalo, you obviously don’t remember the deep playoff runs he made with West Bloomfield High School, which invariably ended up in snowy weather, too. But Hairston doesn’t shy away from too many things. The former Laker was drafted No.
30 overall in Thursday night’s first round of the 2025 NFL Draft, going to the five-time reigning AFC East champion Buffalo Bills. Ranked the No. 19 player (three-star prospect) in the state of Michigan’s class of 2021, Hairston (5-foot-11, 183 pounds) made himself a mint in the run up to the NFL Draft, running an NFL Combine-best 4.
28-second 40-yard dash. He’d used that speed to return three of his six career interceptions for touchdowns in his three seasons at Kentucky, tying the program record. Hairston was second-team all-SEC in 2023, when he picked off five passes to lead the conference, starting all 13 games.
Named a team captain as a junior, he missed five games with a shoulder injury in 2024, but still had 19 tackles, a sack, four PBUs and two forced fumbles in seven starts, giving him 89 total tackles, 2.5 for loss and one sack, and 10 pass breakups in 32 career games. As a senior at West Bloomfield, Hairston was a captain for the 2020 Division 1 state championship squad, earning first-team all-state honors with 23 tackles, 16 pass breakups, three interceptions and three forced fumbles on defense.
He also had 500 receiving yards and four scores on offense for West Bloomfield. Local players who could hear their name called in NFL Draft /*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.
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