2020 WorldWide Rams Draft Profile: Yetur Gross-Matos | Penn St | DE

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Player Bio: Yetur Gross-Matos prepped at Chancellor High School in Fredricksburg, VA. In his senior year, he compiled  130 tackles (21 for loss), and 18.5 sacks. For his career he compiled 272 tackles, forced six fumbles 37 tackles, and broke up five passes. He garnered USA Today All-State Second-Team, Conference 19-Battlefield District Defensive Player of the Year, Co-Player of the Year, Region 4A First-Team, 2X All-Conference First Team, Chancellor’s Defensive MVP in 2016.​

​ACCOLADES
2020 NFL Combine Participant
2019 Reid-Robinson Award
2019 Ted Hendricks Award Finalist 
2019 Lombardi Award Watch List 
2019 Phil Steele All-America Third-Team 
2019 Media All-Big Ten First-Team 
2019 All-Big Ten First-Team 
2019 AP All-Big Ten Second-Team
2019 Phil Steele All-Big Ten First-Team 
2019 PFF All-Big Ten Third-Team
2019 Bednarik Award Semi-Finalsit 
2019 Lott Impact Trophy Quarter Finalist 
2019 Sporting News Midseason All-American 
2019 AP All-American Second-Team Midseason 
2019 All-ECAC Defensive Honor ​
2019 Ted Hendricks Award Watch List  
2019 Bronko Nagurski Award Pre-Season Watch List 
2019 Media Big Ten Honors List
2018 Media All-Big Ten First-Team 
2018 All-Big Ten Third-Team  
2018 Reid-Robinson Award 
2018 Hendricks Award Watch List
2017 BTN.com All-Freshman Team

YETUR GROSS-MATOS
DEFENSIVE END

HOMETOWN                      |           CLASS
SPOTSYLVANIA, VA            |           JUNIOR 
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DRAFT YR:  2020     COMBINE INVITE: YES

SCHOOL:  PENN STATE                            |                    CONFERENCE:  BIG TEN
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HEIGHT/WEIGHT:  6-5/ 266         ARMS: 34 7/8"                 HANDS: 9 3/4”           PROJECTED 40-TIME: 4.80         

COMBINE RESULTS
BENCH    |    40 YD DASH    |    VERTICAL JUMP    |    BROAD JUMP    |    3 CONE DRILL    |    20 YD SHUTTLE    |    60 YD SHUTTLE
​     20      |          DNP           |               34"              |            120"          |            DNP            |              DNP             |             N/A
 
PRO-DAY RESULTS
BENCH    |    40 YD DASH    |    VERTICAL JUMP    |    BROAD JUMP    |    3 CONE DRILL    |    20 YD SHUTTLE    |    60 YD SHUTTLE 
​   N/A      |           N/A           |               N/A             |           N/A            |             N/A           |               N/A             |             N/A
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GAME FILM
#99 YETUR GROSS-MATOS VS OHIO ST (2019)

Strengths: He is the prototype of an NFL EDGE rusher that is athletic and has great size. He has a positive balance of both power and speed. He has a high motor in which the offensive linemen struggles to slow down his rush. With great flexibility in his hips, it allows him to come off the edge with ease efficiently. He uses his hands well in counter to move the linemen hands off of him. He puts tremendous pressure on the blocker from his pass rush creating momentum getting after the quarterback with excellent inside penetration.

Weaknesses:He elected not to run for 40-times at the 2020 NFL Combine, pretty much will turns teams away at in the first round. Film study shows he is not explosive nor fast off the snap. His hips lack a unique movement when targeting low as he prefers to stay above the pad level. He does not shock the blocker on initial contact but will get blocked in the chest by the lineman. He does have a grand vision of locating the ball on run plays and will need to develop better ways to identify the run. He does not have a good punch and will need to develop better ways of being violent against power and speed blocks.

Draft Grade: 6.50

Draft Projection: Late 1st - 2nd round

NFL Comparison: Aaron Schobel

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