The good people at Pro Football Focus spend enormous amounts of time breaking down every player’s performance on every individual play throughout the season. In the end, players can then be given a final rating somewhere between zero (poor) and 100 (elite).

If you want to learn more about PFF’s methodology, you can read their Player Grade overview.

Most of us as fans view PFF ratings this way: “If the grade fits my opinion of a player then it’s credible, but if the grade conflicts with my conclusions then PFF is stupid garbage and should never be trusted.” I’m not...

The good people at Pro Football Focus spend enormous amounts of time breaking down every player’s performance on every individual play throughout the season. In the end, players can then be given a final rating somewhere between zero (poor) and 100 (elite).

If you want to learn more about PFF’s methodology, you can read their Player Grade overview.

Most of us as fans view PFF ratings this way: “If the grade fits my opinion of a player then it’s credible, but if the grade conflicts with my conclusions then PFF is stupid garbage and should never be trusted.” I’m not...

Greetings, internet users. Welcome to The Scratching Post and the new year.

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Conference Championships open with the “no good guys” bowl between the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos—in potentially arctic conditions—at 3:00 PM ET, 1:00 PM MT today. That will settle the first half of the Super Bowl slate. The second half will be determined immediately after when the Los Angeles Rams take on the Seattle Seahawks at 6:30 PM ET, 3:30 PM PT in Seattle.

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Greetings, Panthers fans. Welcome to the weekend.

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We started this review series talking about the Carolina Panthers rushing attack. Now, we move to the other phase of the offense. It’s everybody’s favorite topic to discuss—Bryce Young and the Panthers passing attack.

How it went

Like pretty much every part of this Panthers team, the passing attack could be defined as “just barely good enough to get by.” They were ranked 26th in DVOA and 25th in estimated points added per pass. There were plenty of promising moments and plenty of things that drove Panthers fans mad.

On the good side is Tetairoa McMillan. The Panthers surprised...

Hello CSR! Welcome to another edition of Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! We’re getting into mock draft and free agency speculation season again, and coaches are getting hired every day. Let’s dive right into your burning questions from this week’s mailbag!

Hythloday: What do you think of the Falcons hiring Stefanski?

I actually think the hiring was solid from the standpoint of bringing along something different. They clearly want to put more of a focus on the offensive side of the ball, which makes sense given the investment in Michael Penix Jr a...

With the Panthers offseason underway and free agency just a couple months away, let’s take a look at some of the areas on the roster that Dan Morgan and Brandt Tillis have to address this offseason. Instead of looking at the entire roster, we are going to break the list down by position group. For the projected market value, I’ll be using Spotrac’s numbers. If you don’t agree with how much a player might get in free agency, take it up with them, not me. This week’s focus will be on the offensive line.

2025 Performance

The overall performance...

With the 2025 season in the rearview, it’s time to reflect on what exactly happened in all of the phases in the game and look at what can and should be done with them going into 2026. We start with my personal favorite part of the game, running the football.

How It Went

Chuba Hubbard was the team’s feature back in 2024 with Jonathon Brooks hurt and Miles Sanders struggling. He signed a decently large contract for a running back near the end of that season, so the safe assumption was that he’d be the team’s bell cow back...

Now that the Panthers have officially entered their offseason, we look ahead toward the 2026 NFL Draft. This weekly series will take a closer look at some of the prospects the Carolina Panthers could select in the 2026 iteration of the Draft. In this series, we’ll only be looking at prospects the Panthers could seriously consider. This week our profile will focus on Clemson Tigers defensive lineman Peter Woods.

Bio

Woods spent his high school years putting up generational numbers in Alabama, winning four straight state championships and piling up insane stats (260 tackles, 72 TFLs, and nearly 30...

With their season over, the offseason is officially underway for the Carolina Panthers front office. Soon, behind closed doors in Bank of America Stadium, they will break out microscope to analyze every single detail of the roster before building a plan for the offseason before the quickly approaching Free Agency period arrives.

In a new series that’s going to continue over the next few weeks, we’ll take a similar approach to roster evaluation to identify the rising stars on the roster who look to factor heavily into the Panthers plans in 2026 and beyond. With that in mind, there’s no...

Hello CSR! Welcome to Ask Brian, your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! The season might be over, but last week you all were VERY active in the mailbag. I love it. We’re only a few weeks away from the official end of the postseason. Many head coaches have been fired. The Panthers luckily haven’t been caught up in a lot of that drama, but with all the head coaching seats now available, someone like defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero could be in the running for a promotion. It’ll be an interesting next few weeks as we all wait for free...