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Carolina brought back some familiar faces to the practice squad 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 LB Jacoby Windmon from the practice squad. The undrafted rookie has appeared in five games this year with the Panthers, recording three tackles. He has played two defensive snaps and 61 special teams snaps in Carolina this season.

**Signed WR Dax...

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

The Carolina Panthers regressed on offense and defense, losing a game in which they were actually favored against the Dallas Cowboys. 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

Bama Bryce was nowhere to be found after an opening drive fumble in the RedZone. It almost feels...

Some regression was to be expected following a week of disappointment

Confidence in the current direction of the Carolina Panthers fell this week. That should come as no surprise as the team is coming off of a dismal all-around effort against the Dallas Cowboys last week. Not only did we all get to see the return of Bad Bryce in what was Bryce Young’s worst game since getting benched after the Week 2 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, but we also got to see the return of the early season injury bug.

Honestly, the hit to fan confidence could...

Bringing you part two of this week’s fan mailbag! Come see answers to your questions!

Hello Panthers fans! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly CSR mailbag for everyone! This week’s topic of the week was addressing questions about the coaching staff and the future of the team. Most questions were coaching focused, however we covered a wide range of Panthers related subjects. To recap, this piece is part two of our weekly fan mailbag, where we answer commented questions from the Brian Asks piece from earlier in the week. That is your place to ask your questions,...

Welcome back to Thursday Night Football

Thursday Night Football returns this week with an AFC West rivalry rematch between the Denver Broncos and the Los Angeles Chargwrs. 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 16 here on FanDuel.

This is a bit of a weird game in the AFC playoff picture. The Broncos and the Chargers are the sixth and seventh...

Bryce Young and the Panthers try to bounce back from a disastrous outing against the Cowboys.

All of the positive momentum that the Carolina Panthers had been building on offense came crashing to a screeching halt when Bryce Young fumbled that ball on the opening drive against the Dallas Cowboys. The Panthers looked poised to put points on the board after a long series the first time they touched the ball. Young made a great play to avoid Micah Parsons, but he ended up losing the ball, and with it, seemingly any hope for a good game. It ended up...

The Panthers battered defense looks to bounce back this week.

The Panthers are coming off a crash down to Earth performance against the Cowboys, as Dallas racked up 211 yards on the ground while backup Cooper Rush threw for 3 TDs against a defense that couldn’t seem to stop anything in their 11th loss of the season. This week, they’ll be facing a Cardinals offense with one of the top rushers in the league in James Conner (backed up by a high potential rookie in Trey Benson), and a Cardinals offense with both their starting quarterback and a passing offense...

It’s Thursday, but we don’t care.

Ya know how sometimes life makes you forget what day it is? It’s a thing. Anyway, we do the Wednesday Wraparound on a Thursday, and there’s plenty to talk about, so let’s get to it.

NFC South

The Falcons are making a quarterback change

The Falcons shocked the football world and made themselves the butt of many a joke when they used their 2024 first round pick on a backup quarterback. Now that pick is their starting quarterback after head coach Raheem Morris announced that Michael Penix will be taking over for...

The season ends in just three weeks

The Carolina Panthers disappointing 2024 season has just three weeks left until it can be forgotten like so many others. There has been promise shown by some young players and the new coaching staff, but that doesn’t change the fact that most of the football this year has been difficult to watch, let alone enjoy. Injuries can excuse a lot of that, but roster design had a lot to do with it too. 2024 was meant to be a Bryce Young evaluation year. Nothing else mattered.

Our only question this week is our...

There is no depth left

The Carolina Panthers are reviving their tradition of devastating injuries just in time for the holidays. This time, they have lost inside linebackers Trevin Wallace (shoulder) and Claudin Cherelus (foot) to injured reserve.

Wallace, a 2024 third round pick, was starting opposite veteran free agent signing Josey Jewell after the team lost Shaq Thompson (Achilles) in Week 4. The Panthers signed Jacoby Windman from their practice squad to fill their spots. Windmon is a 2024 undrafted free agent and will likely now be starting opposite Jewell at inside linebacker.

The only other inside backer on...

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 Marshall Thundering Herd edge defender Mike Green.

Mike Green started his college career with the Virginia Cavaliers. He transferred to Marshall in 2023...