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Panthers HC Dave Canales said DL Tershawn Wharton has grown into a leader by helping players with assignments and creating a sustainable culture for the organization.
Panthers HC Dave Canales said the team’s tight end room has a ton of versatility. Even though nobody has stepped up as the clear starter, Canales is confident with the room and their potential.
“Those guys make us go,” Canales said, via ESPN. “The versatility. We ask them to do the dirty work, to block in the run game, pass protection at times, and they show up. Maybe we send them out on a route. If you’re talking about targets, that just kind of happens organically. The more comfortable Bryce gets with JT, with Mitch, when we get Tommy back, it’s that chemistry that’s going to create those opportunities for them.”
Panthers TE coach Pat McPherson said TE Tommy Tremble is still a part of the team’s plans as he recovers from off-season back surgery.
“He’s a huge part of it,” McPherson said. “He’ll be back when we get into the season.”
Panthers TE Ja’Tavion Sanders trimmed weight this off-season and has been working out with QB Bryce Young in California.
“It makes me feel confident about him going into the summer, having a plan for his prep and looking for a big year out of him,” Canales said.
Panthers rookie WR Jimmy Horn sat down with former Panthers LB Thomas Davis and said that he is hoping to make an impact any way that he can in his first season with the team, emulating WR Steve Smith.
“My rookie year, I just want to go out there and impact any way I can,” Horn said on the team’s YouTube channel. “That could be from special teams, offense, taking five-yard catches to a 90-yard touchdown. I’m just trying to do anything I can do to help the team win. And then I feel like if I play that way, whatever accolades I’m looking for, it’ll fall on to me. The main thing I took from his game was like the physicality. He played tough and like he really on the field, he wasn’t going for nothing. So like that’s just something natural as a player that you got to have too. And I see that in me a lot too though. I ain’t really going for nothing on the field.”
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