Penn State defensive end Yetur Gross-Matos has declared for the 2020 NFL draft and several draftniks already have him ranked in the top-five when it comes to edge-rushers in this year’s class. With Gross-Matos being a Penn State product and with the Pittsburgh Steelers maybe being in the market to draft another edge-rusher this year, I’ve received a few emails asking me to look at 6′ 5″, 264-pound player.
Gross-Matos registered 19 total sacks in his three years at Penn State with 17.5 of those coming in the last two seasons. I was able to track down all 19 of his sacks to watch and contextualized them for all to see. It should be noted that Gross-Matos was credited with four half sacks as part of his totals. Additionally, one of his sacks he was credited with came as a result of the opposing quarterback being flagged for intentional grounding.
As usual, the sack contextualization includes a lot important data such as opponent, down and distance and snap to sack time. Additionally, a link to every sack is included so that readers can watch each one at their leisure. These sacks are tabled in the order that they occurred a well.
While there are not a huge amount of high quality sacks on Gross-Matos’s reel, there are a few. Additionally, I think you will notice that Gross-Matos already possesses a nice small arsenal of pass rush moves and very nice hand usage.
We’ll have a more complete profile on Gross-Matos in the coming weeks or months so be on the lookout for that. In the meantime, this contextualization of Gross-Matos’s career college sacks should provide most readers a nice starting point as to the kind of pass rusher the Penn State product is and how he won.
| YEAR | OPP | QRT | TIME | DWN | DIST | LOS | YDS | CREDIT | STS | WATCH |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | MSU | 2 | 14:32 | 2 | 1 | PSU 45 | 9 | 0.5 | 4.24 | VIDEO |
| 2017 | WASH | 4 | 7:55 | 1 | 10 | WASH 22 | 2 | 1 | 4.26 | VIDEO |
| 2018 | PITT | 3 | 1:30 | 3 | 8 | PITT 6 | 3 | 0.5 | 4.11 | VIDEO |
| 2018 | KENT | 2 | 6:51 | 3 | 6 | PSU 31 | 6 | 1 | 3.25 | VIDEO |
| 2018 | MSU | 4 | 2:10 | 3 | 5 | MSU 40 | 5 | 0.5 | 4.51 | VIDEO |
| 2018 | IND | 1 | 7:59 | 2 | 5 | IND 10 | 6 | 1 | 4.34 | VIDEO |
| 2018 | IND | 4 | 10:15 | 1 | 10 | IND 25 | 9 | 1 | 3.5 | VIDEO |
| 2018 | IOWA | 1 | 13:55 | 1 | 10 | IOWA 39 | 5 | 1 | 3.42 | VIDEO |
| 2018 | IOWA | 3 | 6:51 | 3 | 7 | IOWA 32 | 8 | 1 | 3.38 | VIDEO |
| 2018 | MICH | 2 | 0:29 | 1 | 10 | MICH 20 | 5 | 1 | 5.22 | VIDEO |
| 2018 | WIS | 4 | 6:35 | 1 | 10 | WIS 37 | 15 | 1 | 3.55 | VIDEO |
| 2019 | IDHO | 1 | 10:20 | 3 | 9 | IDHO 26 | 9 | 1 | 2.68 | VIDEO |
| 2019 | IDHO | 2 | 13:00 | 1 | 10 | IDHO 38 | 6 | 1 | 3.84 | VIDEO |
| 2019 | IDHO | 2 | 1:10 | 2 | 9 | IDHO 26 | 5 | 0.5 | 4.35 | VIDEO |
| 2019 | BUFF | 4 | 13:58 | 1 | 10 | PSU 39 | 9 | 1 | 3.21 | VIDEO |
| 2019 | PUR | 2 | 12:20 | 3 | 10 | PUR 45 | 8 | 1 | 3.65 | VIDEO |
| 2019 | PUR | 2 | 0:36 | 2 | 10 | PSU 41 | 11 | 1 | 2.98 | VIDEO |
| 2019 | IND | 2 | 0:53 | 1 | 10 | IND 46 | 6 | 1 | 3.45 | VIDEO |
| 2019 | OSU | 2 | 10:00 | 2 | 20 | PSU 46 | 6 | 1 | 3.38 | VIDEO |
| 2019 | OSU | 2 | 0:00 | 2 | 15 | PSU 39 | 9 | 1 | 5.65 | VIDEO |
| 2019 | MEM | 2 | 9:16 | 3 | 19 | MEM 16 | 10 | 1 | 3.58 | VIDEO |
