Carolina Panthers 2018 NFL Draft Grade

[Kevin Greene]

So how did Hurney and crew do in their first year back?

Rd 1, Pick 24 (24)    Moore, D.J. WR 
Rd 2, Pick 23 (55)    Jackson, Donte CB 
Rd 3, Pick 21 (85)    Gaulden, Rashaan S 
Rd 4, Pick 1 (101)    Thomas, Ian TE 
Rd 4, Pick 36 (136)    Haynes, Marquis EDGE 
Rd 5, Pick 24 (161)    Carter, Jermaine ILB 
Rd 7, Pick 16 (234)    Smith, Andre ILB 
Rd 7, Pick 24 (242)    Norton, Kendrick DT 

 

[GoPanthers123]

B+.  I like Day 1 luck and Day 3 has got us what could be huge steals, Day 2 could have been better.

[therealmjl]

C only because they got lucky that Moore fell to them

Jackson meh

Gaulden meh

TE ok

Tweener DE lol

UNC LB ok

DT meh 

[TN05]

Looks like a decent draft to me. On offense we've got a good weapon to work with in DJ Moore and an interesting project in Ian Thomas, we have a few new corners (or one corner and a safety) to try and plug the hole we created a few years back, some depth at linebacker,  and a pretty stout nose tackle. Really sucks we couldn't get a lineman.

[Panthero]

I don' know enough about anybody in the later rounds to say much. I do like the Norton pick. Still think we needed an eventual replacement for the Kalil bros. 

[therealmjl]

Our OL depth is putrid

[Kevin Greene]

2 hours ago, mjligon said:

Our OL depth is putrid

Welp at least we signed a couple UDFAs.

[Butterflyj30]

I would grade it a B

[stirs]

I will say B-

Can't go any higher.  Day 3 brought it down in value

[WOW!!]

To be honest this is a Belichick type draft.. I don't know if that is good or bad thoe. 

[Carolina-Chuck18]

I love this draft. Don’t know how many guys will make this team but I like the defensive strategy. 

Offense was not the problem last season. Our defense was the weakness of this team. We let Brees, Kamara and New Orleans do whatever they wanted to not one, not two but THREE times! 

[Fox007]

1 minute ago, Carolina-Chuck18 said:

I love this draft. Don’t know how many guys will make this team but I like the defensive strategy. 

Offense was not the problem last season. Our defense was the weakness of this team. We let Brees, Kamara and New Orleans do whatever they wanted to not one, not two but THREE times! 

rofl this guy is always hilarious with how wrong he is in every single post he makes.

We lost to NO in the playoffs due to a dropped TD pass by our no name WR.
We had a top 10 defense not a top 10 offense.
We always draft heavy defense with last year being the lone exception.

Try harder to be even more wrong with your next post, I know you can do it, about as good as you are at getting banned.

[Carolina-Chuck18]

19 minutes ago, Fox007 said:

rofl this guy is always hilarious with how wrong he is in every single post he makes.

We lost to NO in the playoffs due to a dropped TD pass by our no name WR.
We had a top 10 defense not a top 10 offense.
We always draft heavy defense with last year being the lone exception.

Try harder to be even more wrong with your next post, I know you can do it, about as good as you are at getting banned.

Yea of course it was a dropped TD pass that cost us the game. Just forget 31 point our defense gave us in the playoff. Forget the other 65 point our defense gave up I the regular season to NO. 

[BigSyke]

Brees only does good because Panthers pressure magically disappear when they play. LOL

Hurney did do good by drafting pressure guys, hopefully they pan out.