The Pittsburgh Steelers selected Northern Illinois defensive end Sutton Smith in the sixth-round of the 2019 NFL Draft and he’ll now be expected to compete for an outside linebacker position the remainder of the offseason. While undersized at 6003, 233-pounds, Smith still managed to register 30 sacks during his college career at Northern Illinois and that number includes 15 in 2018.
As part of my initial breakdown of Smith’s college career tape, I first wanted to study his 30 sacks to better contextualize how he won on those plays and against who. Despite Northern Illinois not having a lot of their full games on the internet, I was still able to find all of Smith’s 15 sacks from the 2018 season and below is quick contextualization of them all so you can see exactly how he won.