Carolina Panthers
Now that free agency and the draft are over, attention shifts to the summer schedule.
All of the real fun offseason stuff as passed us by. There may be another free agent signing or two here and there, but for the most part, the roster is set. The Carolina Panthers shored up a bunch of holes on defense in free agency and started stockpiling some depth in the draft. With most of the roster construction done, we shift our focus towards more actual football. We’re still a few months away from the start of next season, but that doesn’t mean...
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Are we starting to believe?
Now that the draft is a couple weeks behind us and we've all had time to absorb the new additions to the Carolina Panthers roster, let's set a baseline for the 2025 season.
Every week in season we'll be asking you if you're confident in the Panthers current direction. This is supposed to be a general trend question and not a "grade the team's last game" scenario. We did pretty well with that down the stretch last season as the Panthers came away from some tough losses looking better than expected behind Bryce Young.
This...
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We bring you another edition of the weekly mailbag. Come ask your questions!
Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Asks, your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! After giving everyone a week or so to truly digest the 2025 NFL Draft, and the subsequent undrafted free agent class that followed, I’m here to field all your questions as we enter the slow part of the off-season. There will likely be some news here and there as far as roster movement, but for the most part the biggest news ahead is going to be OTAs, training camp, and the preseason. It's going...
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The Peterborough, England native who learned about American Football by watching Netflix is now an NFL player.
The NFL’s International Player Pathway (IPP) should sound familiar to Carolina Panthers fans. This program designed to reach international talent allows certain teams to carry 91 players on their roster in the offseason, versus the standard 90, by adding an international prospect.
The IPP is what brought former Panthers defensive end Efe Obada to Carolina back in 2018. Obada had a nice three year run with the Panthers appearing in 42 games with 7.5 sacks. After spending the 2021 season with the [Buffalo...
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Tempered reason from fans of the Carolina Panthers?!
Fans of the Carolina Panthers are showing remarkable restraint and understanding in predicting their favorite team’s successes in the 2025 season. A widely lauded draft and a popular head coach would have some fans foaming at the mouth while forecasting an undefeated season and multiple Super Bowl titles. Setting aside the logistical difficulties of playing more than one Super Bowl in a calendar year is the level of reasoning you would normally expect to find at this point in the off season. Instead, y’all are out here acting like the Panthers have...
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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!
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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!
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Hunter Renfrow sat out the entire 2024 NFL season while battling ulcerative colitis.
New Panthers wide receiver Hunter Renfrow stepped away from the game prior to the 2024 season at the early age of 28. At the time, we were only given so much information regarding the reasons behind his retirement. But now, following his signing in Carolina. Renfrow has let it be known that an auto-immune disease (ulcerative colitis) was the reason he needed to take some time away from the game.
“It kicked my butt pretty good,” Renfrow told the Carolina Panthers*’ team website after signing with...
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We address all sorts of post Draft fans questions in this week’s fan mailbag!
Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! This is an explosive follow up to a very loaded weekend of news following the Panthers highly regarded 2025 NFL Draft class. You all had a lot of questions about what’s next for this team, and I brought answers.
Let’s dive in!
**Prickly_Claire: I’ve seen a lot of write-ups of Nic Scourton refer to him as a “three down” player, but is he a three down EDGE or does his...
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers only draft three different positions.
We conclude our review of the drafts that the rest of the NFC South had. The Falcons look like they’ve improved their team on paper, while the Saints made a lot of questionable decisions. The Bucs seem to have been a little bit closer to the former than the latter.
The picks:
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The New Orleans Saints had a draft that left many pundits pondering.
The Carolina Panthers had a draft that made most Panthers fans happy. The Atlanta Falcons did the same, as we talked about here. The New Orleans Saints? Maybe not so much. They’ve developed a bit of a reputation for odd draft strategies; think trading up to reach for Marcus Davenport in 2018. They didn’t do anything to fight that perception in the 2025 NFL Draft.
Their picks:
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Will the Panthers quarterback have a strong season?
Bryce Young had an unusual sophomore season as a pro. The 2023 first overall pick was benched after two straight terrible games against the New Orleans Saints and Los Angeles Chargers. New Carolina Panthers head coach Dave Canales switched to Andy Dalton and most of us thought that was it for Young’s career as a Panther. Instead, Young returned to the starting line-up in Week 5 against the Denver Broncos and slowly built a body of work that fans could believe in.
Sure, Young was still 4-6...
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