Eye discipline. Gets caught up in eye candy or delayed in his reactions against the run. Tackling technique. Needs to shore up his approach at the point of attack to make teams feel comfortable about ...

PITTSBURGH – The Carolina Panthers took Penn State safety Zakee Wheatley in the fifth round of the NFL draft, selecting him with the 151st pick Saturday. The Crofton, Maryland, native measured in at 6 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (WHTM) — Penn State’s Zakee Wheatley has been taken by the Carolina Panthers in the NFL Draft. Wheatley, a safety, was the 151st selected in the draft. During his senior season ...

The Penn State football "Turnover King" will attempt to turn his unique skillset into early playing time in the NFL. Zakee Wheatley is the latest in a recent draft run of Nittany Lion safeties.

There's a lot to Zakee Wheatley's game. But the new Carolina Panthers draft pick tried his best to cover it all. Wheatley spoke with local reporters on Saturday, right after he was taken with the ...

Zakee Wheatley was only 5-foot-5 and about 130 pounds when he committed to play football at Spalding as an eighth grader. Despite being slight of stature, the youngster was one of the best players on ...

Penn State safety Zakee Wheatley was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the fifth round of the 2026 NFL Draft. He is the fifth Nittany Lion selected in the draft and fourth Penn State safety picked ...

Penn State's Zakee Wheatley is one of the top safety prospects in the 2026 NFL Draft, with a combination of intelligence and physicality that makes him a hard-hitting playmaker all over the field.

The Carolina Panthers drafted several rookies who have a good chance of starting. In fact, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if six of them (excluding Jackson Kuwatch) ended up starting, or at least ...