Patriots' first-round pick pays tribute to former LSU teammate Kyren Lacy at NFL Draft: 'Special human being'

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It was an affectional nighttime for Will Campbell, the 4th wide enactment successful the NFL Draft Thursday.

The New England Patriots nabbed the LSU violative lineman to support Drake Maye, and Campbell couldn't assistance but clasp backmost tears.

"It means everything to me," Campbell said. "I'm gonna combat and dice to support them with everything I got."

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LSU Tigers violative lineman Will Campbell was selected by the New England Patriots with the No. 4 prime successful the archetypal circular of the 2025 NFL Draft astatine Lambeau Field.  (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

But thing other was connected his caput connected draught night. His erstwhile LSU teammate, Kyren Lacy, died past week from a self-inflicted gunshot.

At the draft, Campbell wore a pin with Lacy's No. 2 connected his lapel.

"Kyren is simply a peculiar quality being. I consciousness for his family. They've been done a batch lately. He's got specified a large family. He was not lone a bully shot player. He was specified a bully teammate, a bully son, a bully older member and conscionable a bully dude successful general," Campbell said.

"It's conscionable terrible, everything that's happened. I'm sending galore prayers to his household due to the fact that helium was gonna get his sanction called this weekend. … Even though his sanction won't beryllium called, he's going to locomotion crossed that stage. He's present with america successful spirit, and it was an grant to beryllium a portion of his journey."

LSU Tigers violative lineman Will Campbell was selected by the New England Patriots with the No. 4 prime successful the archetypal circular of the 2025 NFL Draft astatine Lambeau Field.  (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

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The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said deputies received a telephone astir a man, identified arsenic Lacy, who was arguing with a household subordinate erstwhile helium changeable a weapon into the ground, according to FOX 26 Houston. Officials learned Lacy had fled and launched a hunt aft him.

Officials said deputies tried to propulsion implicit Lacy, but helium led them connected a car pursuit that went connected for miles. Lacy past crashed his conveyance successful Spring, according to authorities.

Responding deputies removed Lacy from the conveyance to instrumentality him into custody, but helium was recovered with a "self-inflicted gunshot wound" and pronounced dead, the sheriff’s bureau said.

The wide receiver was nether probe successful Louisiana for a clang successful December that near a 78-year-old antheral dead, officials said successful January. 

LSU Tigers wide receiver Kyren Lacy reacts against the Texas A&M Aggies during the 2nd fractional successful College Station, Texas, Oct. 26, 2024. (Maria Lysaker/Imagn Images.)

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Lacy transferred to LSU successful 2022. He had his champion play successful 2024, erstwhile helium had 58 catches for 866 yards and 9 touchdowns.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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