Cat Scratch Reader
We bring you part two of this week’s fan mailbag a little early in lieu of the Draft on Thursday!
Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of our weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! The NFL Draft approaches, so I wanted to knock this one out a little early. I hope you all enjoyed your Easter weekend. Let’s dive right in!
@WTMealey: Re dual threat Travis Hunter- What former or current Panthers were under utilized given their dual threat potential?
2 I think of is Peppers as TE in goal line situations and Chris Gamble who played in some years where are WR2 was trash
My pick is probably Curtis Samuel, at least from the standpoint of playing two positions. I think it took Carolina too long to figure out that using him as a running back at times made a lot of sense. By the time they really started actually doing that he was in a contract year.
As far as dual threat, I’d tend to agree with Julius Peppers. In his early years that dude showed insane ball skills on interceptions, but NFL offenses weren’t as creative back then. And certainly not the John Fox led Panthers.
yardstick: How many trades will Dan Morgan make during during the draff? I would put the over/under at 2. I say he will go over.
I’d take the over. I think Carolina will try to trade down from 8, whether or not they accomplish that is a different story. I do think they are virtually a lock to trade up somewhere in the mid rounds, they have three 5th round picks so I would think they’ll use one or two of them to move up the board in the 3rd or 4th rounds.
GooseCreek: Will Dan Morgan, Dave Canales and Brandt Tilis be able to work the war room and build an intent for each pick or trade and then approach Dave (and Nicole?) to be a final sounding board or will the owners be more underfoot during the draft process?
I haven’t seen much indication since Dave and Dan took over to think the Teppers are taking as much of an active role in decision making. I do think at least at 8 they’ll at least be consulted, but so far there hasn’t been anything overly overt that has transpired to make me think David Tepper has his hands in the cookie jar again.
Smoothc85: If Jalon Walker didn’t play for GA, do analysts still view him as a top 10 pick? I personally don’t see it. PFF has him at 24.
Maybe not, but it isn’t like Georgia doesn’t acquire good football players. And the college game is still very recruiting based even with all the NIL deals. I’ve seen Walker all over the place on draft boards, I’ve seen him go before the Panthers pick, soon after, and way later in the 1st round in mock drafts. The fact that so many analysts have him highly...
