The regular season may be over, but football never truly stops in the NFL. The Panthers will be bringing back Ejiro Evero for the foreseeable future, per Joe Person of the Athletic.

According to Joe, Evero is under contract through the 2027 season. The details on Evero’s contract situation were kind of murky, as going into the season the assumption was his contract expired following the conclusion of this season. Then, whispers popped up on X/Twitter from Joe and other Panthers reporters that he was already under contract. Well, his status has been clarified now.

I’m personally happy to see...

The Carolina Panthers may have been the first team eliminated from the 2025 playoffs, but they won’t be the last. That’s how the playoffs work, and we know that now from recent experience. Go us.

For the first time in months, none of the remaining games have any effect on the Panthers playoff chances or draft position. We can just watch and root for good football from now until the Super Bowl.

This is your open thread to follow along with us for all the action today.

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This is now an open thread!

It was delayed by a week, but the Panthers are officially on to the offseason after being eliminated by the Rams in the Wild Card Round of the 2026 playoffs. Carolina’s draft position is now locked into place at No. 19. The rest of the teams that lose this weekend will fill in slots 20-24.

Carolina ranked near the bottom of the NFL in 2026 in sacks with 30, and edge rusher is absolutely a top need heading into free agency and the draft. Rico Dowdle was the team’s leading rusher, with 1,076 yards and six rushing touchdowns, plus contributed...

First Quarter

The Panthers got the ball first in front of a rocking Bank of America stadium. They started the game with an ineffective run up the middle. They were quickly faced with a 4th and 1. They tried to get Bryce Young in space on a rollout, but the Rams covered everything up and knocked away his pass to Tommy Tremble. All it took was three passes to Puka Nacua, and the Rams were up 7-0.

The Panthers quickly went 3 and out again. Young had Tetairoa McMillan open down the sideline on third down, but he badly overthrew...

The fun, surprising ride of the 2026 season is over for the Panthers. Carolina was eliminated in stunning fashion 34-31 to the Rams in the Wild Card Round.

This one is going to sting. The Rams were heavily favored by 10.5 points, but the Panthers showed the fight they’ve shown all year. They fought back from a 14-0 deficit to take the lead two separate times. It looked like they might pull it out, but Matthew Stafford pulled a rabbit out of the hat when he found Colby Parkinson for the game-winning score with 38 seconds left in the game....

This is the first Carolina Panthers playoff game in eight seasons and the first playoff game of the 2025 season. Hold onto that theme ladies and gentlemen, because today could be a day of many more firsts. It could be the first time an underdog this big pulled off a playoff upset. It could be the first time Bryce Young unites the Panthers faithful.

Nobody is going to give Carolina much credit today, which means we have nothing to lose. A Rams blowout win meets expectations, ho hum. A Panthers win of any description is cause for celebration. It’s all...

It looks like fans of the Carolina Panthers didn’t waste all of their well wishes, gratitudes, and thankfulness on the holiday season this year. Despite being 2-3 since Thanksgiving, the Panthers managed to win the chaotic NFC South and sneak their way into the playoffs. Fans could hardly be happier.

We have well documented the roller coaster nature of Bryce Young and Dave Canales’ second season together. Nothing is easy when explaining the Carolina Panthers and we all know that there is more than one steady offseason of work standing between them and true relevancy in the NFL. That said,...

In Week 13 the Carolina Panthers shocked the world with their upset of the then 9-2 Los Angeles Rams. Our first iteration of an interview with a Rams blogger barely accounted for the possibility of a Panthers win, let alone a playoff rematch. Look at us now. Recent history aside, however, expectations going into tomorrow’s game against the Rams are quite similar to their first meeting. The Rams are seen as a true Super Bowl contender and are only traveling to visit the much weaker—at least on paper—Panthers due to a quirk in playoff seeding.

So, where does that leave...

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! This may be the final mailbag for the Panthers 2025 season, and you all came firing with questions, so I will make it count! I have decided not to get into Bryce Young related questions once again, as I don’t think we’ll really know what direction the Panthers will go in until this chapter of their history is fully written. But the rest is fair game let’s dive right in!

**Panthers75: Does Dave let it all hang out this weekend or does he play...

Somehow we’re here. Despite a season of ups and downs and more losses than wins, the Carolina Panthers find themselves hosting a playoff game. It just so happens that it’s against the Los Angeles Rams, the team the Panthers defeated at Bank of America Stadium about a month ago in what was arguably the most surprising result in the NFL all season.

The Rams do seem a little less of a juggernaut this time around. They came into the first meeting on a six game win streak in which they throttled most of their opposition. This time, they look more...

The Carolina Panthers are one of 14 NFL teams still standing. But not all 14 of these teams are created equal.

With an 8-9 record and backing their way into the playoffs in a less-than-impressive fashion, there are plenty of Panthers skeptics out there. There are probably plenty of Panthers skeptics here, too, but for now Carolina is alive in the postseason and that’s all that matters.

An annual tradition among football writers is to take the playoff contenders and rank them from top to bottom, so we’re going to celebrate that tradition this year with the Panthers included. Here’s...

The Carolina Panthers are back in the playoffs for the first time since 2017, and are division champions for the first time in ten years. That means we get bonus football! Unfortunately, it comes against a Rams team, and more specifically their offense, that will likely be looking for blood in this rematch from the 2025 regular season. The last time around, the Panthers came up with an upset of the season candidate, as they outlasted the Rams in a 31-28 victory in Carolina. The defense played a major role in this, as they picked off two of Matthew Stafford’s...