Photo Gallery: Malcolm Butler Football Camp

Published 8:00 am Monday, July 19, 2021

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Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler leads players through a drill during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler works with players during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Mickell Jones and Zadrian Gary go one-on-one in a lineman drill Saturday at the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Caden Lee looks at pictures of Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler Saturday at the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler talks to players at the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler gives a Bible to K.D. Sims during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Vicksburg mayor George Flaggs Jr. talks to players at the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler gets ready to go one-on-one with Tyler Henderson during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Tyler Henderson catches a pass while going one-on-one with Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler at the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler sets up for a drill during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler gets ready to go one-on-one with K.D. Sims during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler leads players through a drill during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Braylon McDaniel runs through an agility drill during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler throws a pass during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Tyler Henderson celebrates catching a long touchdown pass with a cartwheel leading into a backflip Saturday at the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler catches a pass against Eric Wesley during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Taylor Cosby, Haiden Cosby and Marcus Cheatteam sit on a tackling dummy during a break in the action at the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler leads a cheer during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

K.D. Sims celebrates after catching a long pass during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Taylor Cosby catches a pass in the end zone during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler participates in a drill during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler opens a bottle of Gatorade for a player during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler leads players through a drill during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Arizona Cardinals cornerback and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler participates in a drill during the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp on Saturday. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Nearly 300 players from across Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee descended upon Vicksburg High’s Memorial Stadium on Saturday for the Seventh Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp.

The Arizona Cardinals cornerback, Vicksburg native and two-time Super Bowl winner started the free camp after his rookie NFL season in 2015 and has held it each July since. Butler, along with coaches from Vicksburg High and other high schools, led players through about two hours of drills and one-on-one work.

Butler is heading into his eighth NFL season, and first with the Cardinals. He won two Super Bowls with New England in the 2014 and 2016 seasons, helped them reach another in 2017, and also played three seasons with the Tennessee Titans before signing with Arizona this offseason.

About Ernest Bowker

Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper's 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.

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