GREEN BAY – In the current transfer-mad world of college football, Dani Dennis-Sutton didn’t go anywhere else.
The edge rusher stayed at Penn State all four years, worked behind and alongside a pair of first-round draft picks, and wound up a fourth-round pick of the Packers on Saturday, at No. 120 overall.
“It helps, I think with a guy that shows – especially at a place like Penn State – his commitment there to them was strong,” said Packers director of player personnel John Wojciechowski shortly after Green Bay drafted Dennis-Sutton. “He was able to develop under a system there.”
He also learned from Penn State star pass rushers Chop Robinson and Abdul Carter, highly touted first-round choices in 2024 and ’25, respectively. Dennis-Sutton believes that served him well.
“I feel like it did,” he said. “Obviously I played with a bunch of NFL guys and legit guys, so I think it was good for me to learn behind those guys, and then obviously my past two years starting I had a really good career there.
“I felt like it taught me a lot as far as how to earn my way, earn my right to be on the field and be a star. Yeah, I think it benefitted me as opposed to transferring because I’m behind two legit guys. I don’t know if I’d be the same guy I am today.”
Dennis-Sutton (6-5 3/8, 256) may not have had the first-round pedigree of his predecessors, but he put together an impressive career in his own right.
Becoming a full-time starter in 2024, his third year with the Nittany Lions, he recorded double-digit tackles for loss each of the last two seasons (13 and 12), with 8½ sacks both years.