Derrick Brown holds the LDE · Starter spot in Carolina Panthers’s edge room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Derrick Brown played 18 games in 2025 with a 78% snap share.

Derrick Brown is a 6'5", 318-pound left defensive end for the Carolina Panthers entering his seventh season. The Auburn product was selected seventh overall in the 2020 NFL Draft and earned PFWA All-Rookie Team honors after recording 34 tackles, eight tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks, and four pass deflections in 16 games. In 2021, he appeared in 16 games with 14 starts, posting 41 tackles and 3.0 sacks. Brown recorded a career-best 67 tackles in 2022, tied with Mike Rucker's 2002 franchise record for defensive linemen. In 2025, he registered 5.0 sacks and seven pass deflections.

Auburn2016 – 2019

Panthers2020 — present

CollegeAuburnDraftRound 1 · No. 7 overall · 2020 · CARHometownSugar Hill, GA