Penn State pass-rusher Dani Dennis-Sutton is everything the Green Bay Packers' dormant pass rush needed. The Packers can't rely on Micah Parsons to do it alone, especially coming off a torn ACL, and they've now found Parsons the perfect tag-team partner.
It's hard not to love the Dennis-Sutton pick, a player many expected to go in Round 2. Elite athleticism? Check. His 9.96 RAS is near perfect. College production? Yep. Seventeen sacks in two seasons. But does he have the right mindset?
A resounding yes. Dennis-Sutton's tape shows a player who fights to the whistle and never gives up on a play, and his first comments will only make Packers fans love him even more.
"I love and I need football," Dennis-Sutton said, via The Athletic's Matt Schneidman. "I live and breathe football."
In Green Bay, he will get to start alongside another Penn State Nittany Lion who shares that attitude.
"He's the best in the league," Dennis-Sutton said of Parsons, "just trying to be the best alongside of him going forward."
Packers fans will instantly fall in love with Round 4 pick Dani Dennis-Sutton
You can teach the fundamentals and technique, and Dennis-Sutton will undoubtedly face a learning curve at the NFL level. You can't teach the hunger and desire that it takes to reach the top. Parsons demanded it from his teammates.
Dennis-Sutton will bring that energy.
Now he gets to learn from Parsons. The two have connected before during Parsons' visits to Penn State, his alma mater, but sharing a locker room with him is a different story entirely.
Dennis-Sutton sat 77th on the consensus board. Nobody would've even questioned it had the Packers selected him with either of their Day 2 picks. It makes the Round 4 value even more of a steal. But for Dennis-Sutton, he is thinking beyond his draft-day fall.
"I'm just happy to be a Packer," he said, via Zach Jacobson of Packer Report. "We all wanna go pretty high -- I didn't, but now I'm a Green Bay Packer. I'm just excited to get to work. I'm excited for next week and to see what we can do this year."
And Packers fans should be just as happy that he is coming to Green Bay.
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