Ex-Penn State star Abdul Carter makes case for No. 1 pick in NFL Draft

Former Penn State prima Abdul Carter could beryllium the No. 1 wide prime by the Tennessee Titans astatine the 2025 NFL Draft adjacent month.

The Titans volition person a batch to measurement successful the weeks starring up to the draft. 

Carter is 1 option, but quarterbacks Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders could besides beryllium selected.

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Penn State antiaircraft lineman Abdul Carter speaks to reporters during the school's NFL shot pro time Friday, March 28, 2025, successful State College, Pa.  (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

The standout borderline rusher made his lawsuit to beryllium the apical prime astatine Penn State Pro Day.

"I deliberation conscionable my wide interaction connected the game," helium said, via ESPN. "My versatility. I tin play aggregate positions, and I consciousness like, astir importantly, I measurement up erstwhile I'm needed the astir erstwhile crunch clip comes around. When you request idiosyncratic to marque that large play, I consciousness similar I'm the feline who makes that large play.

"At the extremity of the day, I marque radical astir maine better, conscionable instrumentality them connected treble teams, bringing other attraction to me, freeing up idiosyncratic other truthful they tin marque the play and conscionable my wide interaction connected the game."

Carter did not enactment successful the pro time due to the fact that helium is recovering from an limb wounded helium sustained during the College Football Playoff. He said the limb is "pretty much" astatine 100%. He besides dealt with a accent absorption successful his close ft but maintained helium didn’t consciousness immoderate symptom and didn’t request surgery.

Penn State Nittany Lions antiaircraft extremity Abdul Carter reacts aft sacking Maryland Terrapins backmost MJ Morris (not pictured) during the archetypal 4th astatine Beaver Stadium successful University Park, Pa., Nov. 30, 2024. (Matthew O'Haren/Imagn Images)

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"Those large antiaircraft players, you look successful the history, they tin interaction the crippled conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic a quarterback," helium added. "There's been antiaircraft players who've taken implicit a crippled close astatine the extremity of the Super Bowl successful those playoff scenes wherever you truly request that large antiaircraft player. And helium besides makes radical astir him better. So, I consciousness similar conscionable saying that, seeing however antiaircraft players tin instrumentality implicit a game, we're conscionable similar a quarterback."

Carter was the 2024 Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. He had 24 tackles for a nonaccomplishment and 12 sacks successful 16 games and was an All-American for the archetypal time.

If the Titans bash not take Carter, the Cleveland Browns could besides beryllium successful the marketplace for different apical antiaircraft player.

Penn State antiaircraft lineman Abdul Carter throws during the school's NFL shot pro time Friday, March 28, 2025, successful State College, Pa.  (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

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Carter reportedly had meal with Browns brass Thursday night.

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