REPORT: RB Jonathon Brooks (knee) may not be ready for the start of training camp.

[TheSpecialJuan]

Panthers coach Dave Canales said rookie RB Jonathon Brooks (knee) may not be ready for the start of training camp.

Canales also said Brooks has a ways to go before he is ready and the team will ease him into training camp. Brooks suffered a torn ACL late in his final season at Texas and is still recovering from the injury. Previous reports were optimistic that Brooks would be cleared by training camp, but Canales and the Panthers are now pumping the breaks. Chuba Hubbard and Miles Sanders are the next men up on Carolina’s depth chart. Hubbard proved far more effective than Sanders last year and would likely get the first crack at the starting gig if Brooks misses any time.

[RJK]

Lol this team man. Could’ve had a day 1 starter in the second round

[CamWhoaaCam]

I'm numb to the bad news. 

[mrcompletely11]

4 minutes ago, RJK said:

Lol this team man. Could’ve had a day 1 starter in the second round

Its a 6 winish season, hes not going to be 100% for a while, should have just got a center or pass rusher or whatever and drafted a rb next year

[PNW_PantherMan]

[CPF4LIFE]

lol

[Dingo_ate_Babies]

We drafted him knowing he's not going to play right away. This was a pick for the future. We still have Chuba  and Sanders for this year anyway, so him playing isn't critical. I suspect we won't see him play till mid-season.

[mrcompletely11]

Just now, Dingo_ate_Babies said:

We drafted him knowing he's not going to play right away. This was a pick for the future.

therein lies the rub, the panthers are not a team that can sit a player for a year, our roster isnt anywhere close to that

[t96]

The good thing is RBs don't really need training camp as much as most other positions. Would obviously be better to have him, but he's either got vision/tackle-breaking/hands or he doesn't and one training camp isn't going to change much. Hopefully he's ready by preseason

[t96]

1 minute ago, mrcompletely11 said:

therein lies the rub, the panthers are not a team that can sit a player for a year, our roster isnt anywhere close to that

uhh our roster and team expectations are exactly at a point where we can afford to sit/develop players. We need to build out a core and add talented players for the future period, nobody is expecting us to compete/contend this year. Teams solidly in their window (like the Chiefs, Bills, etc.) are ones who can't afford to use high picks or cap space on players who won't contribute immediately. 

I'd argue the main reason the Chiefs went back to back was their ability to draft immediate impact players the last 2 years. As a team squarely in the beginning of a rebuild we don't care about immediate impact, just starting to get some damn impact players at all. If they take a few years to develop so be it, we're not losing anything right now.

[csx]

This possibility should have been obvious but hey, lets freak out about that . The people saying he would be the the top rusher on the team were not paying attention.

[Greatman77]

Best to be safe with an ACL tear, I'm not that concerned.

[csx]

2 minutes ago, t96 said:

uhh our roster and team expectations are exactly at a point where we can afford to sit/develop players. We need to build out a core and add talented players for the future period, nobody is expecting us to compete/contend this year. Teams solidly in their window (like the Chiefs, Bills, etc.) are ones who can't afford to use high picks or cap space on players who won't contribute immediately. 

I'd argue the main reason the Chiefs went back to back was their ability to draft immediate impact players the last 2 years. As a team squarely in the beginning of a rebuild we don't care about immediate impact, just starting to get some damn impact players at all. If they take a few years to develop so be it, we're not losing anything right now.

Dont waste your breath. You are talking to a guy who posts the same thing nearly 24/7

[KSpan]

30 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Its a 6 winish season, hes not going to be 100% for a while, should have just got a center or pass rusher or whatever and drafted a rb next year

Yeah, but it's lost development that could have gone to a player ready to play. I don't' really have a problem with it conceptually, just preferably not on a player drafted in the second round. 

Who knows though. Maybe this turns into a McGahee situation and he comes right in after all.