{"id":819118,"date":"2026-03-18T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/819118\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:19:14","slug":"what-panthers-writers-fans-are-saying-about-lions-edge-d-j-wonnum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/819118\/","title":{"rendered":"What Panthers writers, fans are saying about Lions EDGE D.J. Wonnum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Defensively, keep an eye on D.J. Wonnum, who a pro personnel source said should be considered a top \u201csleeper\u201d for free agency. Wonnum, who has posted 23 sacks in his four seasons of play, played in a career-high 83% of the team\u2019s defensive snaps last season and has excellent length and size as an edge rusher (6-5, 260, 34 1\/8-arm).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Wonnum has only been a full-time starter in two of those seasons (2021, 2023) and has experience playing with his hand in the dirt earlier in his career under former head coach Mike Zimmer\u2019s 4-3 scheme and as a stand-up pass rusher over the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defensively, keep an eye on D.J. Wonnum, who a pro personnel source said should be considered a top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,449,11309,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-819118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-detroit-lions-analysis","12":"tag-detroit-lions-free-agency","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116250382332449721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819118","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=819118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}