Dani Dennis-Sutton is ready to soak up every ounce of knowledge from one of the NFL's most feared pass rushers—and he didn't even see it coming.

When the Green Bay Packers selected the Penn State standout with the 120th overall pick in the fourth round of the NFL Draft, it came as a complete surprise to Dennis-Sutton. He never heard a word from the Packers during the pre-draft process. General manager Brian Gutekunst played his cards close to the vest, even admitting he tried—and failed—to trade up into the late third round to secure his target earlier.

But now that he's in Green Bay, Dennis-Sutton finds himself sharing a defensive line room with none other than Micah Parsons, arguably the most explosive pass rusher to ever come out of Penn State. And Parsons wasted no time reaching out.

Shortly after the draft, Dennis-Sutton received an Instagram message from Parsons—just a phone number and a simple instruction: call.

"Just be ready to work," Dennis-Sutton recalled Parsons telling him. "That's the biggest thing he said. Don't worry about anything outside of working, man. I'm here for the team, whatever the team needs me to do, and I'm ready to work. That was really his advice."

For Dennis-Sutton, that advice hits close to home. He learned the pass rusher's code at Penn State, where a sign hangs in the defensive line meeting room with a simple rule: "Never lose one-on-ones. Or at least never stay blocked."

He lived by that mantra last season, leading the Nittany Lions in sacks and earning third-team All-Big Ten honors. Now, as he transitions to the NFL, he'll have the perfect mentor to show him how to apply that rule at the highest level.

"If you're getting blocked briefly, running to the ball, effort, effort, effort is all we teach," Dennis-Sutton said, channeling the Penn State philosophy that shaped him.

In Green Bay, he'll face more one-on-one blocks than ever before. And with Parsons in the same building, he's determined to be a sponge—learning, working, and never staying blocked.