You never forget how it feels to get your first NFL sack, or so says Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly.
Well, I’d like to add a side note to that: You never forget how it feels to watch a rookie linebacker’s face light up when he talks about his first NFL sack.
When Jermaine Carter Jr. talked about taking down Josh Allen, for a loss of 6 yards in the third quarter of Carolina’s 28-23 victory against Buffalo on Thursday night, I saw what he must have looked like as a kid. I imagined how he must have looked while sprinting without direction and screaming with unfiltered enthusiasm in his backyard in Maryland.