{"id":874496,"date":"2026-04-25T18:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874496\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:42:16","slug":"dani-dennis-sutton-proud-to-earn-my-way-earn-my-right-at-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874496\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani Dennis-Sutton proud to \u2018earn my way, earn my right\u2019 at Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"

GREEN BAY \u2013 In the current transfer-mad world of college football, Dani Dennis-Sutton<\/a> didn’t go anywhere else.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“It helps, I think with a guy that shows \u2013 especially at a place like Penn State \u2013 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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 8\u00bd sacks both years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY \u2013 In the current transfer-mad world of college football, Dani Dennis-Sutton didn’t go anywhere else. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[4955,118444,6756,118443,7,34,49,48,132,417,118442,507],"class_list":{"0":"post-874496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-2026pick120","10":"tag-dani-dennis-sutton","11":"tag-draft-dani-dennis-sutton","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homepage-cp","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-football","16":"tag-news-2025-draft","17":"tag-news-all-news","18":"tag-news-2026-nfl-draft","19":"tag-news-national-feature"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116466820287630228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874496","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=874496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}