Round 2 Pick 38: Carolina Panthers select DE Yetur Gross-Matos

[TheSpecialJuan]

YETUR GROSS-MATOS DE  CAROLINA PANTHERS

Panthers selected Penn State DE Yetur Gross-Matos with the No. 38 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft.

Gross-Matos (6’5/266) took home back-to-back Reid-Robinson Awards for Penn State's most outstanding defensive lineman in his final two years with the program, compiling 34.5 tackles for loss and 17.5 sacks from 2018 on. His 92nd-percentile arm length (34 7/8") and first-step explosion allow him to get upfield in a hurry as a pass rusher from either the edge or the interior, but he admittedly needs more tackle-shedding moves and raw strength to be a high-impact starter in the NFL. Still, Gross-Matos projects as an all-around player at the next level due to his ideal length and violence as a one-trick pony until he matures and develops in due time. Gross-Matos joins DT Derrick Brown as the Panthers' top two picks in 2020. Carolina knows its defense needed work. Gross-Matos will team with 2019 first-rounder Brian Burns and free-agent pickup Stephen Weatherly off the edge.

[MadHatter]

3 minutes ago, Paintballr said:

Happy with the pick, think he will be a good pick.....but any of y’all expecting a rookie DE to be a full time starter let alone a 2nd round will be disappointed. Will be happy if he is a good rotation this year and produces then becomes a full time starter next year

Without training camps, it will be tough Game  1.  But he will start after 3-4 games no doubt.

[TheRumGone]

Just now, KillerKat said:

We better be knocking some footballs down

This is the 9ers model. They had two 6’6” dts. Honestly next year if we can I’d like to get another tall big dt in the first or second round. 

These next three drafts with teddy at qb needs to be us drafting huge hog mollies on the dline and oline with our first two or three rounds of picks 
 

[CarolinaRideorDie]

Can't remember a time most Huddlers agree on a second round pick! How much influence do you guys think Rhule had in this or was it Hurney? Discuss? 

[Yaboychris28]

Hopefully he turns out to be Charles Johnson and not Wes Horton. He seems to have potential. I like his natural size that Burns does not have for a DE

[TheSpecialJuan]

David NewtonESPN Staff Writer 

New coach Matt Rhule is serious about building his defense from the inside out. After taking DT Derrick Brown at No. 7, he got one of the more athletic defensive ends in Penn State's Yetur Gross-Matos. This kid lacks all the physical attributes to develop into a great pass rusher, and with Brown and Kawann Short inside teams won't be able to double team him. He's a true DE in a 4-3 scheme, so he fill a big

[ncsfinest21]

Goodness if we just press receivers offenses going to have a fit.

[GOAT]

1 minute ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

David NewtonESPN Staff Writer 

New coach Matt Rhule is serious about building his defense from the inside out. After taking DT Derrick Brown at No. 7, he got one of the more athletic defensive ends in Penn State's Yetur Gross-Matos. This kid lacks all the physical attributes to develop into a great pass rusher, and with Brown and Kawann Short inside teams won't be able to double team him. He's a true DE in a 4-3 scheme, so he fill a big

tf?

[MadHatter]

Just now, GOAT said:

tf?

Just god awful editing and writing.

[Chief Keek]

Yeet

[Jimmy]

10 minutes ago, MMA said:

Carolina fuggn Chuck

Hmmm...interesting. 

[Paintballr]

5 minutes ago, Yaboychris28 said:

Hopefully he turns out to be Charles Johnson and not Wes Horton. He seems to have potential. I like his natural size that Burns does not have for a DE

I mean Horton was a UDFA (which his career lasting this long as that is a success)

[Black&BlueBubba]

20 minutes ago, KillerKat said:

LE: Yetur Gross-Matos - Efe Obada  
DT: Derrick Brown - Zach Kerr 
DT: Kawann Short - Woodrow Hamilton
RE: Brian Burns - Marquis Haynes - Chris Smith

Add a little more DT depth and our line is about perfect.
 

Weatherly is in there somewhere.  We just paid the dude 6 mil

[MMA]

Just now, Jimmy said:

Hmmm...interesting. 

Jimmy, go away.