DT · Carolina Panthers · #95
Derrick Brown
LDE1- College
- Auburn
- Height
- 6'5"
- Weight
- 320 lb
- Experience
- 7th season
Sacks
0.0▼ 5.0 vs '25
89th of 118 DL
Pressures
5▼ 10 vs '25
58th of 118 DL
Pressure rate
1.8%▼ 0.1 vs '25
75th of 118 DL
Run stops
12▼ 30 vs '25
31st of 118 DL
Tackling
18 tkl
0 tfl · 12 stops · 0 ff
Ranks compare against the 118 qualifying defensive linemen on the 2026 leaderboard.
Week-by-week
Pressures by game, dashed line = 2025 per-game average
2026 game log
| Usage | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game | ||||||||||||||
| Wk 1 vs CHIL | 46 | 61.3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 2 @ ATLW | 40 | 58.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 3 @ CLEL | 53 | 75.7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 1 |
| Wk 4 vs DETW | 54 | 76.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 2 |
| Wk 6 @ PHIW | 48 | 75.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 1 |
| Wk 7 vs TBL | 41 | 65.1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 1 |
| Season | 282 | 68.4 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 5 |
How he compares
2026 defensive linemen who qualify · dashed lines mark the group average
Contract
signed 2024 with Panthers
$96Mover 4 years
- Avg. per year
- $24M
- Guaranteed
- $41.2M 43%
- 2026 cap hit
- $11M 3.5% of the cap
- Signed
- 2024
- Runs through
- 2027
2024
2025
2026 · now
2027
Year 3 of 4 ·
Career by season
| Overall | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 6 | 282 | 68.4 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | – | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 808 | 76.5 | 72 | 52 | 5 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 39.6 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 60 | 90.9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 17 | 940 | 89.1 | 93 | 78 | 5 | 4.7 | 2.0 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 70.4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 17 | 870 | 75.3 | 61 | 50 | 4 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 12 | 17 | 1 | 39.6 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 16 | 632 | 62.2 | 38 | 32 | 7 | 6.5 | 3.0 | 9 | 12 | 0 | – | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 16 | 742 | 70.1 | 33 | 29 | 7 | 15.6 | 2.0 | 12 | 19 | 0 | – | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 90 | 4,334 | 74.5 | 317 | 255 | 28 | 6.0 | 13.0 | 62 | 85 | 7 | 53.0 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 0 |