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Welcome to Part Two of our weekly mailbag!

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of our weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! This week’s topic of the week was Bryce Young, and the future of this team. You brought the heat with some questions! To recap, Brian Answers is the follow up to Brian Asks, where you asked your questions in the comments earlier this week. Come find your answers to those questions!

Bruce Guild: Keep or improve draft position or win out and build momentum for next year? What matters most?

I think somewhere in the middle...

The Panthers brought in some reinforcements at wide receiver this week.

The Carolina Panthers front office is busy throughout the season with transactions, roster moves, and injury updates. Here’s what’s happening at Mint Street this week.

Injury Updates

Per the Panthers team website, the following players are on the injury report as of publication:

Transactions

Signed WR Velus Jones Jr. from Jaguars practice squad. Jones was originally a 2022 third round pick by the Chicago Bears. He has appeared in 27 career games with two starts, 12 receptions, 135 yards, and one touchdown. Jones has also rushed 19...

At least we still aren’t sliding backwards

The Carolina Panthers continue to inspire fans with confidence as they draw nearer the close of one of their worst seasons, by record, in franchise history. Dave Canales and Bryce Young have shown great improvement in recent weeks and that has been enough for fans to believe in the future.

A record high 88% of fans are confident in the direction of this team, a number that has been rising steadily over the last five weeks. Those weeks have been marked by significant improvements in the on field product, particularly in the level...

With just 4 games left in the 2024 season, the Panthers have a prime opportunity to change the narrative

After a dismal beginning to the Carolina Panthers season, the narratives surrounding the team have taken an unexpected turn for the better. With four games left, the story of the season feels mostly written, but a renewed sense of optimism surrounds the team in a way that hasn’t been around since at least the waning moments of the 2022 season. Even the sportsbooks have started to believe in the Panthers, as they are favored to win for the first time after...

Welcome back to Thursday Night Football

Thursday Night Football returns this week with an NFC West rivalry rematch between the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers. All Thursday night games kick off at 8:15 ET on Prime Video.

As always in our brave new world of expansive sports gambling, it is now easier to bet on games than to watch them. You can catch current odds on all NFL games for Week 15 here on FanDuel.

Before the season began, this looked like one of the best Thursday Night Football matches in recent memory. Both teams have dominated...

How did the Panthers do in fantasy football? Will those trends continue?

The Carolina Panthers came up just short for the third week in a row, losing a hard fought game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Let’s take a look back at how individual Panthers players fared and if they are worth keeping moving forward. For these articles, I will be using fantasy totals in an ESPN Fantasy league I am part of, so your numbers might have been slightly different.

Quarterback

Bryce Young

Bryce Young was once again very good from a game management standpoint but did not put...

The Panthers get a respite from an extremely tough stretch of the schedule.

The Carolina Panthers are coming off a stretch of schedule where they faced three straight current division leaders. They lost all three by one score and had chances to outright win the games. This weekend looks like a significant break from that gauntlet.

They play the Dallas Cowboys, who are not a division leader. They’re not a playoff team. They don’t even have a winning record. They’ve been outright bad for most of the season, even when Dak Prescott was healthy. They had a brief two game...

The Panthers are hoping to get their first win in 4 weeks against a struggling Cowboys offense.

The Carolina Panthers defense continues to be the weakness of this team. However, they’ve shown up to play the last 3 weeks in games where many expected them to get shredded. They are still one of the worst rushing defenses in the league, but they’ve managed to clamp down as a defense and not make it easy for the playoff contenders they’ve faced in the last several weeks. This time around, they’ll face a Cowboys team clinging to life, with backup QB Cooper...

We take you around the league for your weekly hit of NFL news.

The Carolina Panthers narrowly missed a massive upset win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. It was a bummer, but the Panthers aren’t relevant to the season. Let’s see what is.

NFC South

The Bucs have taken over the division lead

With the Falcons fading fast, it became quite apparent that the NFC South is the Bucs’ division to lose. They played around with the Raiders but still won comfortably despite some sloppy football. Meanwhile the Falcons got blown out by the Vikings and have...

The Panthers moral victory streak can't keep fans satisfied forever

Football fandom is a fickle thing. The Carolina Panthers have been one of the worst teams in football over the last seven years. Everything about watching them as a fan has fallen on a spectrum between painful and boring. Last year's faceplanting efforts to pair Frank Reich, the purported voice of experience and competence, with first overall draft pick Bryce Young was the disaster cherry on a long expired sundae of sadness.

So it's kind of wild now that Young is showing promise, the team is playing good football and...

Let’s take a closer look at one of the prospects the Panthers could select in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Since it’s never too early to look forward to the NFL Draft, this weekly series will take a closer look at some of the prospects the Carolina Panthers could select in the 2025 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 Georgia Bulldogs EDGE Mykel Williams.

The most obvious strength Mykel Williams has is the elite size and athleticism at the EDGE position. Standing...