Given his former employer’s propensity to load up on defensive ends every April, many observers figured Carolina Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman would begin collecting edge rushers when he arrived in Charlotte in 2013.
That hasn’t been the case.
During an eight-year stretch when Gettleman was the team’s pro personnel director, the New York Giants drafted four defensive ends in the first three rounds. Three of the picks turned out to be Pro Bowlers – Osi Umenyiora, Justin Tuck and Jason Pierre-Paul.
In his first four Panthers’ drafts, Gettleman had taken only one defensive end, and that didn’t turn out so well.