STATE COLLEGE — When someone asked Saturday why he was tremendous in three College Football Playoff games last season, Dani Dennis-Sutton shrugged his shoulders.
“I don’t know,” he said. “I really don’t know. I just trusted the process, I guess. I did the same things in the playoffs that I did in the regular season. The plays just sort of came.”
Six tackles for loss. Four and a half sacks. One forced fumble. One spectacular interception. They didn’t happen by accident. They happened because Dennis-Sutton is very good.
He enters his senior season as one of the best defensive ends in the country, a preseason All-American and one of Penn State’s best playmakers.
“He was dominant and took over games (in the CFP),” defensive line coach Deion Barnes said. “He has a good feel for the game. Anybody who has played this position knows it’s a rhythm thing. I think he caught the rhythm in the playoffs.
“He could feel plays coming. He’s starting to trust what he sees.”
The Nittany Lions have expected great things from the 6-5, 265-pound Dennis-Sutton since he was one of the highest-rated recruits in their vaunted 2022 recruiting class.
He considered turning pro after last season when he was projected as a mid-round pick. But he decided to return to Penn State, along with classmates Drew Allar, Nick Singleton, Kaytron Allen, Drew Shelton, Vega Ioane and Zane Durant.
They all feel they have unfinished business after Penn State’s 27-24 loss to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl, a CFP semifinal.
Dennis-Sutton was everywhere, it seemed, that night at Hard Rock Stadium, making six tackles and two sacks, forcing a fumble and wowing the sellout crowd with a ridiculous interception in the fourth quarter, which set up a go-ahead touchdown.
He showed off his freakish athleticism on that play, but Saturday…
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