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 Report

Good news for the Panthers offense this week as wide receiver Jalen Coker was a full participant in practice from Wednesday through Friday.

Guard Damien Lewis popped up not practicing over the past two days, so we’ll need to wait and see about his availability this week. Continuing on the offensive line, center Austin Corbett was a full participant this week as well. Tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders was a full participant recently and...

The 3-3 Carolina Panthers are heading to New Jersey to take on the 0-6 New York Jets. Coming off an impressive, but far from easy win, against the Dallas Cowboys in Week 6 and looking ahead to a Week 8 matchup against the Buffalo Bills, many Panthers fans are worried that the Jets present a classic trap game. That is, they are worried that the Panthers will lose to a worse team by showing up to MetLife stadium underprepared and overconfident.

There are two big reasons the Panthers can’t overlook the Jets: the core of their remaining offense and the...

The Carolina Panthers hit the road feeling their oats after back to back home wins and three wins in four contests. They’ve averaged 29 points per game in those three wins, and the offense has looked rather potent. However, all three of the wins have come at home. Road games have been an entirely different story. In three away games thus far, the Panthers offense has generated just 15 points per game, and that’s with the benefit of the Cardinals defense almost handing the Panthers late touchdowns in Week 2 as they almost choked away that game. If we break...

Hello CSR! Welcome to your defensive preview, as the Panthers travel to face the New York Jets in what should be a very winnable game this week. The Jets will not have WR Garrett Wilson, which won’t help an offense that managed a negative 10 yards net passing in London last week. However, the Panthers, especially their defense, should not sleep on the Jets in this opportunity to win 3 games in a row for the first time in, well, a while. The Jets still boast the #5 rushing offense on yards per game right behind Carolina at #4, and...

Carolina Panthers head coach Dave Canales said that edge rusher Patrick Jones II is out for the season as he undergoes surgery on an injured back.

As Canales points out in the press conference, Jones finished the game and from the outside, there weren’t any clear signs of any ailments. But apparently his back was bothering him and it must have been debilitating when he woke up on Monday. Canales refused to give specifics on what the injury is, but clearly they feel it’s something serious if they’re so quickly going the route of season ending surgery.

With Jones out,...

Even though the 2025 NFL season just started, it’s never too early to look ahead toward the 2026 NFL Draft. This weekly series will take a closer look at some of the prospects the Carolina Panthers could select in the 2026 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 South Carolina Gamecocks quarterback LaNorris Sellers.

Bio

Sellers ended his high school career with a South Carolina high school state championship, Shrine Bowl MVP, and a 4.95 GPA. He decided to stay close...

The Carolina Panthers are hot on their first multi-game win streak in ages. Dave Canales has committed to the run. Bryce Young is playing mistake-free football. Ejiro Evero has figured out what linebackers are for and where they go Things are looking pretty rosy in Charlotte as the Panthers are .500 for the first time since Sam Darnold came to town.

Their next two games, however, are classic Panthers losses in waiting. The New York Jets are a winless, hapless mess. They are exactly who the Carolina of old would show up completely unprepared for. They are also on the...

Throughout the 2025 NFL season, SB Nation’s Doug Farrar will write about the game’s Secret Superstars — those players whose performances might slip under the radar for whatever reasons. In this installment, we feature Carolina Panthers running back Rico Dowdle, who gave a Joe Namath-style guarantee in the week leading up to his revenge game against the Dallas Cowboys, and then backed every bit of it up — with authority.

Well, Rico Dowdle did try to warn his former NFL team.

After a 2024 season in which Dowdle gained 1,079 rushing yards and scored two rushing touchdowns on 235 carries,...

It turns out that winning is more fun than losing. Who knew? The Dallas Cowboys came into Bank of America Stadium with all the expectations that they were going to win this game, but they forgot to do one thing. The one thing that former Cowboy and current Carolina Panther Rico Dowdle told them they would have to do a week ago: they forget to buckle up.

No shame in that, I’m forgetful myself from time to time. But you can’t come to play the Panthers in Charlotte, North Carolina without being strapped in and ready to go and still...

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Asks, your weekly Panthers fan mail bag for everyone! We’re coming off a 2-0 win streak, not something that has been very common in the current iteration of the Panthers. Last week, the Panthers managed to down the Dallas Cowboys in Rico Dowdle’s revenge game. We are once again here with a nice mail bag as the Panthers are three and three and control their own destiny. They have the chance to win three games in a row by defeating a very beatable New York Jets.

You all know the drill, come, ask all of...

The 3-3 Carolina Panthers are .500 and on a two-game winning streak for what feels like the first time in living memory. Dave Canales has discovered the strength of this team centers around stopping the run on defense and establishing the run on offense.

That hasn’t stopped online sportsbooks from remaining skeptical of the black cats, even against some of the most meager competition the NFL has to offer. FanDuel opened their Week 7 odds with the Panthers as +1.5 road underdogs to the New York Jets.

Carolina has yet to show up and offer a complete performance on the...

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