{"id":376477,"date":"2026-08-20T11:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376477\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:52:42","slug":"in-jacksonville-devin-lloyds-familiar-in-carolina-hes-the-centerpiece-of-the-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376477\/","title":{"rendered":"In Jacksonville, Devin Lloyd’s familiar. In Carolina, he’s the “centerpiece of the defense”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Setting that standard has been one of his specialties. Again, Lloyd would be the first player on the practice field every day if it wasn’t for local try-hard Chuba Hubbard<\/a> (who was even early to rehab on a day he wasn’t practicing), and that pre-camp film study with Kuechly was another sign of the little things he’s doing right every day.<\/p>\n

“Absolutely, he’s a dream to have,” Panthers head coach Dave Canales said. “He’s professional. He’s a great human; he plays with his hair on fire, sideline to sideline, and, when he steps into the huddle and says the call, there’s a confidence that comes with it that this is going to work and the guys rally around that.”<\/p>\n

The Jaguars didn’t always invest that responsibility in him, so coming to the Panthers this offseason gave him a chance to build on the leadership, to call a defense,<\/p>\n

“When he’s on the field, he doesn’t stop talking,” outside linebacker Princely Umanmielen<\/a> said. “He’s trying to help everybody out, the front line especially; he’s always like calling out alerts, play calls, alerts before it happens, and it just makes playing defense much easier.”<\/p>\n

Known communicator<\/a> Nick Scott<\/a> also vouched for that ability, saying Lloyd has impressed with his quick grasp of the system.<\/p>\n

“One of the things that was really nice with just being with Devin is there’s no drop-off in communication,” Scott said. “He’s somebody that learned the defense extremely fast, so he’s driving the bus out there like he’s been part of this for a while now, which is really encouraging.<\/p>\n

“He made some plays, and he just really serves as a centerpiece for our defense.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Setting that standard has been one of his specialties. Again, Lloyd would be the first player on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128669,46911,116,118,117,8943,12900],"class_list":["post-376477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-2026-training-camp","tag-app-news","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-latest-news","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}