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It's tough to say what team it will be and for what player, but there will likely be players other teams will want to trade up to #8 to get. Is that Sanders or some other player? Who knows. As much as I want the Panthers to add a potential blue chip player at #8, the roster is still very depleted and additional draft capital could be more valuable. Imagine dropping down to 21 in the first and getting another first next year as well. Can't say no to that.

Warren would not be a bad pick. But I have a feeling one of the top guys falls and the Panthers will have a chance to trade down. Imagine if Sanders falls to 8, and a team like the Steelers offer a big time package to trade up to get him. Would be hard to turn down.

I wouldn't be upset if this was the pick. I prefer a defensive pick but, Warren could be a 10 year elite TE.

There seems to be a focus on improving the talent on defense this offseason and Evero will have more tools in his toolbox in 2025. It's hard to judge Evero's performance because he has not been given many resources to succeed. The highest defensive player they've selected during his time with the Panthers is Trevin Wallace at 72 overall. They've filled the defense with free agents the past few years and the results have largely been bad. At times in 2023, I thought Evero was making salad out of sh*t with the defense performing well despite the offense being complete and total garbage. The script seemed to flip in 2024 when an insurmountable amount of injuries torpedoed the defensive performance. Even an improvement to an average defense could mean a few more wins.

Solid move. RB3 and KR/PR.

Exactly. There's no way they will be worse than last year with even minor improvements on defense. But it's a small market team that has been very bad for a long time so the AI bots generating these articles are incapable of projecting improvement. Plus Bryce finally started showing semblance of being a competent NFL QB late in the season.

It was an acceptable draft that could have been an incredible draft if Fitterer wasn't the GM

Yea I was about to say, Steve Smith's track record on evaluating WRs is really bad

Completely depends who it is. But in most scenarios I can imagine, even in 1992, it would be an odd to even criminal/predatory behavior.

Wow, great signing. Dude racked up 1000 yards on the ground for the cowboys last year

1 year deal at $2.787m is a great value.

Excellent signing. Guy can play any position on the line.

The good thing about Morgan is he was on the Panthers when the team was somewhat well run. I don't think it can be understated how god awful Scott Fitterer was. I don't know if he was too heavily influenced by Tepper or if he was just awful at his job. Morgan at the very least was a Panthers player, was around when the team had success which probably helps just his general attitude towards building the team.

What is funny about signing Moehrig is that the Panthers could have DRAFTED him if Scott Fitterer wasn't a moron. In the 2021 draft, the Panthers had the 39th overall pick. They traded down, twice, in the second round, eventually drafting WR Terrace Marshall Jr 59th overall. Moehrig was drafted 43rd overall. The Panthers also passed on OT Tevin Jenkins who was picked by the Bears in the 39th overall spot, and passed on Creed Humphrey who was drafted 63rd overall. Good teams draft well. The Panthers have been one of the worst drafting teams since 2021 and it's not even close.

Morgan appears better than Scott Fitterer but that’s not saying anything at all, Fitterer is one of the worst GMs in NFL history.

Is that after Tuttle’s paycut?

https://www.panthers.com/news/panthers-release-running-back-miles-sanders Good.

I actually think the Panthers might end up drafting a LB or WR. It makes them less desperate to get DL help. CB is still on the table though, but I'd hate it at 8 overall.

If the defense improves with similar results on offense from 2024, this is a 8-9 win team. If Bryce takes another step forward it’s a playoff team. That’s IF the defense improves. They’ve made a huge investment in defense so here’s hoping it works out.

Excellent. This is the best signing of the day.

What the Pats paid for Milton is two or three mid level defensive players. Makes more of a difference than 1 player. Milton isn't even as good as KK Short.

He went to NE after all that, lovely. Delete thread.

wtf this is chaos

He signed, he's not signed, which is it? This is a lot of money for a DT when you already have Derrick Brown. But this dude is a problem in the pass rush, ass cheeks in the run game though. Panthers better load up on LBs that can stop the run or the defense will be a sieve yet again.

No thanks on that butthole contract. DK is also kind of a hothead