It’s not hard to find praise for Sonny Styles this draft season. But Sonny Styles would also like to discuss some different parts of his game: the parts that need work.<\/p>\n
“A lot of teams, I think they want to know, or at least I want to show them that I’m aware of what I need to get better at,” admitted Styles, holding court early on Wednesday morning at the NFL combine, speaking to a horde of reporters who came to talk with the top prospect who was now listing all the ways he needed to improve.<\/p>\n
“I want to show them I’m an intelligent football player. Like, I’m not just a guy out there running and hitting. That’s part of the game too, but you got to be a smart football player, especially in the NFL, and then be able to talk about it.<\/p>\n
“I think I can be a lot more effective in zone coverage as I keep working that part of my game. I think I’ve shown I can feel routes and things like that. But not a lot of ball disruption, especially this past year. And I think with my athleticism, if I keep working on that, I should be a threat.<\/p>\n
“I think me being a taller linebacker and turn the film on certain plays, good or bad, you can see my pad level is starting to rise a little high. So it’s something I always have to be conscious and aware of, and I know it shows up when I’m watching film.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s not hard to find praise for Sonny Styles this draft season. But Sonny Styles would also like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[79,235,260,2567,7,81,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-777174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-app-news","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116136039454824394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}