BREAKING:Panthers re-sign Chuba Hubbard

[ChibCU]

Our salary cap issues will improve if we can get on track with consecutive draft classes that are actually NFL players. Scott Fitterer was a menace.

[mav1234]

5 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Happy for Chuba and he earned the money for sure. 

Not pumped about going from big RB contract to big RB contract and absolutely FLABBERGASTED that we spent a 2nd round pick on Brooks now. That was utterly moronic.

If you want a capable 2nd string RB, get them in the 3rd-5th round. You know.....like Chuba.

I get that concern - but I think that concern about a 2nd on Brooks is the same if we pay Chuba this or not. I think Brooks is a long term future investment. Chuba is for now and the next few years. Ideally Brooks is worked back slowly and by having both you limit wear and tear. It's also a matter of value - if Brooks was far and away their highest rated player on their board, it makes sense to take him.

The way we use RBs I'm very excited to see Brooks in the offense at full speed, but if he's what a lot of us hope, we'll want to make sure we don't run him into the ground in the longer term, too.

[kungfoodude]

11 minutes ago, mav1234 said:

I get that concern - but I think that concern about a 2nd on Brooks is the same if we pay Chuba this or not. I think Brooks is a long term future investment. Chuba is for now and the next few years. Ideally Brooks is worked back slowly and by having both you limit wear and tear. It's also a matter of value - if Brooks was far and away their highest rated player on their board, it makes sense to take him.

The way we use RBs I'm very excited to see Brooks in the offense at full speed, but if he's what a lot of us hope, we'll want to make sure we don't run him into the ground in the longer term, too.

I want Brooks to make me excited.

[ImfromClayton]

15 hours ago, OldhamA said:

Or taking a RB in the 2nd round if you're going to pay your incumbent RB.

Did you feel good about Chuba coming into this season? Because I didn't.  Major JAG vibes.

[Martin]

This was a breakout season for Chuba, you never know what will happen with a new coaching staff. They didn’t know at the time of the draft, so they drafted another RB high. But that shouldn’t prevent them from adapting and feeling like Chuba is worth investing in now that they’ve seen what he can do. It gives us a potentially very strong 1-2 punch. Letting old decisions dictate what you do moving forward is not a successful way to manage a team, or manage anything for that matter. The argument that “now that we know we shouldn’t have drafted Brooks” is pretty ridiculous as we didn’t know at the time

[CarolinaLivin]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

I want Brooks to make me excited.

I think his dm’s are open

[frankw]

1 hour ago, Martin said:

This was a breakout season for Chuba, you never know what will happen with a new coaching staff. They didn’t know at the time of the draft, so they drafted another RB high. But that shouldn’t prevent them from adapting and feeling like Chuba is worth investing in now that they’ve seen what he can do. It gives us a potentially very strong 1-2 punch. Letting old decisions dictate what you do moving forward is not a successful way to manage a team, or manage anything for that matter. The argument that “now that we know we shouldn’t have drafted Brooks” is pretty ridiculous as we didn’t know at the time

There is merit to the points you're making here.

On the flip side one could argue it took us investing 150 million in the oline for him to have a breakout season. And he has still yet to hit 1k rushing yards in a season.

As far as Brooks goes the position does not require that significant of a draft investment for many other teams. That's not being negative it's just a matter of fact. The 49ers did quite well with a UDFA running back while McCaffrey was out.

It is understandable that some people have concerns.

That being said it boils down to whether or not you believe in the player. We just have to see what happens with him and Brooks.

[PNW_PantherMan]

2 hours ago, Martin said:

This was a breakout season for Chuba, you never know what will happen with a new coaching staff. They didn’t know at the time of the draft, so they drafted another RB high. But that shouldn’t prevent them from adapting and feeling like Chuba is worth investing in now that they’ve seen what he can do. It gives us a potentially very strong 1-2 punch. Letting old decisions dictate what you do moving forward is not a successful way to manage a team, or manage anything for that matter. The argument that “now that we know we shouldn’t have drafted Brooks” is pretty ridiculous as we didn’t know at the time

Chuba is playing at a similar level to last season.  The line has just improved tremendously.  He was only bad his first year or two.