Quintin Mikell?

[CoastalCat]

What happened to Quintin Mikell? He just kind of quietly fell off the roster in the offseason, and doesn't seem to be on a team at the moment. He played in 14 games last year. I don't remember him being awful. He had 59 tackles and 2 forced fumbles.

 

What gives? Did he retire? Was he injured? I understand all the players leaving in free agency for bigger contracts, but it seems like we would have brought him back for OTA's or something.

 

Did I miss some news? 

 

PS: Sorry for all my dumb secondary questions this week.

[Squirrel]

Two claps and a Rick Flair!

[Jeremy Igo]

The Panthers replaced him with Ron Harper who is still not practicing due to turf toe.

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[sharkkiller]

Apparently he is recovering from an injury and has all but retired. I read that somewhere, but cannot rememberwhere at this moment.

 

Edit found it:

 

 

 

Mikell had offseason foot surgery and told Philly Sports Talk he is all but retired. 

 

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/carolina-panthers/post/_/id/7981/panthers-newton-to-play-at-least-a-quarter

[pilot2011]

A legit question. He played well, but I guess RR definitely feels Decoud is the better option

[TheRumGone]

A legit question. He played well, but I guess RR definitely feels Decoud is the better option

Different positions. I liked mikell though. Solid player

[Cary Kollins]

rotoworld is a good site for mostly up-to-date player info

 

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/765/quintin-mikell

 

 

Panthers SS Quintin Mikell suffered a foot injury in Sunday's Divisional Round game versus San Francisco and will not return.

Undrafted rookie Robert Lester will finish out the game at strong safety. The extent is unknown, but Mikell is an impending free agent and turns 34 years old before next season. A Lisfranc injury could end his career.

[CoastalCat]

Yep, retired. Boo! http://www.csnphilly.com/football-philadelphia-eagles/former-eagle-quintin-mikell-all-officially-retired

[*FreeFua*]

Harper is going to be what Mikell was for us. Neither are good against the pass and I'm guessing Harper will primarily be used on the first 2 downs.

[csx]

A legit question. He played well, but I guess RR definitely feels Decoud is the better option

 

Or as Mikell said, he's retired. I think he would be here if he wanted to play.

[pilot2011]

my bad. I thought Harper was replacing Mitchell... Shows you how much I care if Roman makes the team or not

[CoastalCat]

my bad. I thought Harper was replacing Mitchell... Shows you how much I care if Roman makes the team or not

 

Ha!

[Fiz]

my bad. I thought Harper was replacing Mitchell... Shows you how much I care if Roman makes the team or not

Decoud is hopefully doing that. He's the reclamation project.

 

Harper is just the veteran blitzing strong safety. H

[Nick81]

my bad. I thought Harper was replacing Mitchell... Shows you how much I care if Roman makes the team or not

It went crazy when all the injuries happened in Buffalo.  Originally it was Godfrey at FS, Mitchell at SS.  After the injury, Mitchell moved to FS and they pulled Lester off the practice squad where he and Mikell split time at SS.  

 

I kind of like Harper for rushing downs and blitz packages.  Coverage, not so much.  If he has any injuries past this turf toe though, you probably won't have to worry too much about him.  He'll be IR'd and gone next season.