kungfoodude

This is something I have been repeatedly trying to warn Panther fans of. This is gonna be a pretty bad team next season. The W's and L's are going to matter less(to a point) than if we start to look like the bones of a functional roster emerge. There is no quick fix coming. This is going to take time and a healthy dose of competent roster building to turn around.

Mykel seems like a fairly low ceiling and VERY low floor guy. Outside of the measureables, he very much looks like he is on the Shemar Stewart end of the scale. I would be very disappointed to see him taken at 8. Late 1st, early 2nd I can understand.

The Sanders concerns are likely to end up making many people look foolish. Although Shedeur has a hard physical ceiling almost across the board, he is probably the most prepared QB to make the NFL transition since Andrew Luck. I would argue he is MORE prepared than Luck. I do disagree about Milroe. I think it's unlikely he is ever given the opportunity to fully develop, as he is largely more on the Anthony Richardson end of the scale. Ward is an interesting one. He is a true gunslinger and not many of those guys have panned out in the last decade.

I generally think this applies to most prospects. Hence why you hear so many wild variations in valuation. Consider the reporter who said his survey of some scouts/FO personnel had Warren anywhere from top 10 to the #4 overall TE prospect. This is 100% an eye of the beholder draft. I suspect this one is going to have a wild amount of true busts and also some superstar guys that go late 1st to 3rd round. More than usual, I mean.

Ovechkin is the most overrated player of his era.

You weren't aware of his strategic reserves of baby oil? Those could be worth a considerable amount.

2nd or 3rd round possibility for sure.

Kicker?

T-Mac or possibly Walker. Almost everyone else is a trade down, IMO, although you say that is off the table. If you aren't mentioning Sanders being off the table, I would fail to see why a trade down isn't possible, however.

It's basically a nothing answer. Makes sense.

TBD. I think there is enough general uncertainty with what is going to happen at each pick that it could be a prime market to trade.

Hard to say. Depends on if the heat ratchets up on Canales. If so, I suspect the first head on the block is Evero.

I don't think the argument is about the book value but about the player and the overall strength of this draft seeming to be short on elite talent. Add the fact that we have a ton of roster holes and that explains why a lot of us are against it.

Methinks perhaps he is an option if we trade down, which makes a lot more sense.

Which, in that mold, Williams is that kind of guy.

I like Warren as a mid to late 1st but not at 8.

Odd hire for a one year HC.

So basically a very poor man's Brian Burns? Yeah....that worked out so well for us the first time, let's do that again!

He didn't sort of bust. He was a bust.

Most of our issue with 2nd round WR's is picking the wrong guys. I personally don't think Higgins is the wrong guy. That said, I do believe his path to be a star receiver is unlikely.

This is along the lines of what I was thinking. Would even consider future draft picks if someone balks at that sort of price.

Trading up would be a stupid move. Trading up to get Carter would be a lightspeed stupid move. Trade down makes infinitely more sense in a draft weak on elite talent but deep in two deep/solid starter talent. It would be a very Tepper Panthers move to get this wrong.

Another thing I keep coming back to, is he really a Bowers distance ahead of Loveland, Taylor, Arroyo, Fannin, etc? I don't see it.

Yeah, I mean the team has been bad for so long it doesn't even make me mad when they fug up anymore. I just laugh about it. It's just who we are at the moment.

None of us has the details to know the truth. The NFL teams have to do a far deeper dive to attempt to gauge the character of any prospect with red flags in their history. If we draft him, the Panthers were satisfied with what they came up with. If we don't, perhaps we weren't(or he just wasn't as high on our board). I am not going to riot either way, unless we draft him and then he has more issues with us.