We’re moving closer and closer to draft day. So here’s another weekly fan mailbag where you can ask your questions!

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Asks, part one of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! We’re getting to that point in the offseason now where all we have left to monitor are the prospect visits, coach press obligations, and the rare news about potential free agent signings. But the good news is we’re finally into the month of April, meaning the countdown to the 2025 NFL Draft has become days instead of weeks and months.

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Pass rush is still the top concern around the Carolinas

Free agency has largely quieted down, the draft is only a couple weeks away, and very little is new for the Carolina Panthers. Sure, they signed a host of new defenders and have bolstered the roster on that side of the ball from top to bottom, but fans in the Carolinas are still not satisfied with the Panthers’ stable of pass rushers.

Last week we asked y’all where the team’s priorities should lie after free agency and an overwhelming majority of you think that edge rushers need to be at...

Many Panthers fans want the Panthers to trade down and acquire more picks. What would that look like?

My idea of trading up in the 2025 NFL Draft did not go over well, so let’s give the people what they want. In this particular mock draft, I used the Pro Football Network mock draft simulator (because I didn’t want to pay for the PFF one). I had a simple set of rules for this mock as the Carolina Panthers. If another team offers a trade, I have to accept. If multiple teams offer a trade, I accept what I consider...

Your benevolent dictator of Trade Down Island explains the wisdom - and the data - as to why the Panthers should trade back from No. 8.

Greetings from your benevolent dictator of Trade Down Island.

As the calendar turns to April and the NFL Draft draws near, I will dutifully fulfill my role in the coming weeks as the revered, universally beloved leader of my beautiful football-loving island nation. I won last year’s election with 108% of the popular vote to my opponents -8%, so I will take the mandate my people have given me and impose my will for...

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!

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!

The Panthers have met with a number of prospects with the NFL Draft approaching, and it gives us clues as to their priorities.

The Carolina Panthers have historically tipped their picks in the NFL Draft. A lot of their selections tend to be players that zeroed in on for visits during the pre-draft process, and they tend to be pretty bad at hiding their interest in their top targets in the early rounds of the draft.

With that, we can take an early-ish look at who the Panthers have been visiting with to see what position groups they’re targeting most...

We bring you the answers portion of this week’s fan mailbag!

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! Fans seem to be drilling down into all the plausible scenarios for the Panthers early on in this year’s draft, luckily we’re only a few weeks away! So, I bring you all the answers to your questions! To recap, Brian Answers is part two of your weekly fan mailbag, where we answer all questions, whether they be Panthers related, football related, or even completely off topic. Let’s dive right in!

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A handful of prospects that fit exactly what the Panthers should be looking for during the final rounds of the 2025 NFL Draft

After a number of trades over the past couple of years, the Carolina Panthers have a heaping 6 picks at their disposal for the final day of the draft. Whatever they do with these picks will make or break the quality of the Panthers draft class and the roster’s depth going forward.

This week I’ve been writing about the players who make the most sense for the Panthers in each day of the draft - today we...

The Carolina Panthers have patched a lot of holes already, but there is still more to be done.

Earlier this week, we took a bird’s eye view of the Carolina Panthers depth chart. The team had made a number of moves in the first week or so of free agency to try and plug up all the holes that made for a very leaky ship last season. It looks a lot better on paper than it did a few weeks ago, which obviously should be the case at this point. That said, there’s still some work to be done before...

The roster is better than last year’s, but much room remains for improvement

The Carolina Panthers had an active free agency period that, per rumor, might not be entirely over yet. Between hosting a pair of free agent safeties this week and the wide receiver market finally beginning to move, the Panthers still have some room to improve their roster in advance of the draft.

That said, most of what’s left out there will be depth signings. Top end talent and long term promise is what the NFL Draft is for, and the Panthers are set up for moderate success...

The Panthers are in good shape as they turn towards the draft

The Carolina Panthers entered the 2025 Free Agency period with a moderate amount of cap space, about $42M by some estimates, and long, long list of needs. The NFL’s All-Time worst defense needed to be completely overhauled and Bryce Young was in need of some added talent to throw towards. Fast forward a few weeks and the defense has been upgraded from top to bottom and Young, well, could still use some more talent. That said, the Panthers have signed about $51M in new contracts in the last...