With as many needs as prospects, how will Carolina begin?

The No 8 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft is a weird place for the Carolina Panthers to sit. The team has about as many needs as there are players eligible to be drafted. The problem is that there is not a lot of consensus at the top of the draft at a variety of positions. One man's steal is anothers over reach.

Some positions, like linebacker, offensive tackle, and defensive backs have multiple prospects considered to be the best or second best player at their position. Instead of...

The Panthers general manager addressed the media with just a week left until the 2025 NFL Draft.

Carolina Panthers general manager Dan Morgan held a press conference with about a week until the 2025 NFL Draft. He answered questions from the media about the team’s process and the strategies they have going into the event.

The first real question was one that always piques the interest of fans. When asked about trading down, Morgan said the team is definitely going to be listening to offers for the eighth overall pick. He wouldn’t set a point of delineation where the Panthers...

We bring you another part one of our weekly fan mailbag!

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Asks, part one of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone!

We got one more round of questions before we head into Draft week, as we’ll get to enjoy Good Friday and Easter in the coming days. Then, we’ll be ramping right up into coverage of the 2025 NFL Draft, and the ensuing news. Mock drafts have come out galore, all the rumors are hitting a fever pitch, and we still don’t know what team is going to take a QB for sure after...

A number of recognizable Panthers were allowed to test the free agent markets and have found new homes in the first month of the offseason.

The NFL probably has the most turnover from year to year of all the major American professional sports leagues. Lots of rosters are filled with short term contracts, and the ones that look like longer term pacts are usually shorter deals in disguise. Teams are often forced to let players go more because of cap ramifications than on field ability, so these players often quickly find new homes.

The Panthers have popped up a lot...

Carolina currently holds picks No. 140, 146, and 153 in this year’s draft. Does it matter?

The Carolina Panthers currently hold three fifth-round picks in the 2025 NFL Draft. By that point in the draft most teams are just scratching lottery tickets, hoping to find a player who can make the 53-man roster, play special teams, and ideally provide some adequate depth.

As I’ve stated in Trade Downs Island’s glorious constitution, few players drafted in Rounds 5-7 go on to have meaningful NFL careers. Sometimes the best thing teams can do with fifth-round picks is use them as trade fodder...

Here’s this week’s open thread.

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Feel free to use this thread to chat about (almost) anything you want: video games, food, movies, non-football sports, you name it. As long as it’s allowed by the site’s ToS, it’s fair game here.

You know the drill.

This is now an open thread!

Most Panthers fan think oddsmakers are underestimating Bryce Young and Dave Canales

When FanDuel released their win total odds for each team last week, we decided to ask y'all what you thought about their odds for the Carolina Panthers. They put the over/under on wins for Bryce Young and Dave Canales at 6.5 and y'all seemed to think that was a touch low.

90% of you, in fact, would take the over on that bet.

The Panthers are coming off of a strong finish to the 2024 season, relative to where they started, and have plenty of room left to...

Here’s a fresh weekend open thread just for you.

Feel free to use this thread to hang out over the weekend and chat about whatever you want (just make sure you follow the ToS ... the rules still apply here) with anyone who decides to stick around.

This is now an open thread!

We bring you part two of this week’s fan mailbag!

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! We got a lot of questions about specific prospects and positions this time around, but I encourage you to go check out the thread itself for some great dialogue about prospects, and some info throughout the week on recent visits.

Let’s dive in!

**panthers2112: Given your comments last week about trading up in the top five. I’m looking for recommendations on a table to flip in the event this happens. I’d like one that...

The Carolina Panthers have used up most of their allotted prospect visits in advance of the 2025 NFL Draft.

A couple weeks go, we looked at the early trends with the players that the Carolina Panthers had been visiting with in preparation for the 2025 NFL Draft. Since then, the Panthers have used most of the 30 pre-draft prospect visits that every team is allotted. Here are all the players the Panthers have met with in that capacity so far:

• Walter Nolen DT Ole Miss
• Shemar Stewart EDGE Texas A&M
• Tetairoa McMillan WR Arizona
• Josaiah Stewart...

A Jalon Walker skeptic takes another look to see what all the hype is about.

The buzz on social media connecting the Carolina Panthers to Georgia’s Jalon Walker has reached a new peak after interviews from the “Up and Adams” show have been clipped and shared repeatedly across every platform imaginable.

I’ll be honest, to this point I’ve not been a huge fan of Walker’s. Which is why I figure it will be a fruitful exercise to dive into his profile to see if I’ve written him off sooner than I should have. After all, with so many prominent and...

How was the 8th overall pick in the NFL Draft fared in recent years?

The Carolina Panthers own the eighth overall pick heading into the 2025 NFL Draft. While we aren’t sure if they’ll actually use that pick or trade it away, let’s take a look at some recent draft results to see how well the eighth pick usually fares once entering the NFL.

2000s

With the dawn of a new century came the Pittsburgh Steelers taking Plaxico Burress with the eighth overall pick in 2000. Burress is more known for shooting himself in the leg than anything he...