Carolina picks up some secondary help

The Carolina Panthers have selected cornerback Chau Smith-Wade with the 157th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. The Washington State product and Colorado native has experience playing both corner and safety across 33 college games since his freshman year.

Smith-Wade is a slightly undersized corner at 5’11” with a limited athletic profile. He also has only three interceptions to his name, with zero in his senior season. That said, his senior season, and potentially some of his athletic testing, was cut short by a shoulder injury.

He did show up to the [Senior...

The Panthers continue to add rare athletes to their roster

To kick off Day 3 of the 2024 NFL Draft, the Carolina Panther used pick number 101 to select Ja’Tavion Sanders, the athletic tight end from Texas. Despite being overshadowed by Xavier Woods and AD Mitchell, Sanders quietly had a good season that earned him first team All Big 12 honors. The 6’4”, 245-pounder ran a 4.69 forty at the NFL Combine. Sanders is definitely more of a receiving threat than an inline blocker, so he should mesh well with the current tight ends on the roster in terms of...

Join us for the next big step in the Morgan/Canales experiment

Weclome to the final day of the 2024 NFL Draft. Somehow, after mountains and mountains of wheeling and dealing yesterday, the Carolina Panthers are entering the day with one pick in every round of the draft. That includes one single pick that was originally theirs (Round 4, no. 101).

For more on the Panthers’ top needs entering today, look no further than our Jonathan DeLong’s analysis here.

For more on the best available players remaining in the 2024 NFL Draft, take a gander at Mark Schofield’s [top list for...

Let’s run out the trade value charts again.

It turns out the Carolina Panthers big trade to move one spot up and into the first round on Thursday night was just a harbinger of the draft strategy that general manager Dan Morgan honed while watching his former boss Scott Fitterer at work. Three more trades occurred in the second and third rounds last night that saw the Panthers bouncing all over the draft board.

Ultimately, they walked away with their RB1 in Jonathon Brooks and a linebacker they apparently liked in Trevin Wallace. That, after cycling through a dizzying series...

The Carolina Panthers have made three picks, but they still have plenty more holes that need to be filled.

The Carolina Panthers hopped all over the board on Day 2 of the NFL Draft and ultimately came away with running back Jonathon Brooks and linebacker Trevin Wallace to go along with first round pick Xavier Legette. After all the trades, the Panthers go into Day 3 with four picks at spots 101, 157, 200, and 240.

The Panthers have plenty of needs left to fill, and they’ll likely throw some darts to get some competition at some of those position....

The Panthers add some front seven support with their 3rd round pick.

The Carolina Panthers have selected Kentucky linebacker Trevin Wallace with the 72nd overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.

The Panthers get themselves a good blitzer from the traditional linebacker position who tackles well, can play some man coverage against tight ends, and has some decent athletic traits for a linebacker. He’s an aggressive linebacker who attacks the blocks and has some lateral and closing speed that could give him a chance to get some work on defense, though I think his value will come as a rotational...

The Panthers leap back up to get their man.

The Carolina Panthers have traded picks no. 52, 142, and 155 to acquire the 46th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft from the Indianapolis Colts.

The Panthers top remaining draft needs:

EDGE, DB, C, RB, ILB, DL

The Panthers picks in the 2024 NFL Draft:

• Round 1 (32): Xavier Legette, WR
• Round 2 (39)
• Round 3 (65)
• Round 4 (101)
• Round 5 (142)
• Round 6 (200)
• Round 7 (240)

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Sanity and moderation come in numbers, it seems

The results are in and Panthers nation has spoken. 920 Carolina Panthers fans responded to our Panthers Reacts survey last night where they were asked one simple question: how would you grade the Xavier Legette draft pick?

Respondents were given standard grading choices between A and F. We are going to go out on a very long limb in our scientific interpretation of the results and assume that grades of A and B are positive grades, a C grade is a neutral grade, and grades of D and F are negative grades....

There are a lot of players on the board that should be able to help the Carolina Panthers immediately.

The Carolina Panthers selected Xavier Legette with the 32nd pick of the 2024 NFL Draft in a move that is rather divisive among the fan base. They have a chance to get everyone on the same page with a universally acclaimed pick a few picks later with the 39th selection. The Panthers have needs all up and down the roster, so it’s easy for them to find a player at a position of need. Here are a few of my favorites:...

Moose has been selected as the former Panthers great who has the honor of announcing the team’s second and third round selections

One of the more endearing events within the NFL Draft is the League’s use of former team greats to announce certain picks on day two. The tradition continues this year, and Muhsin Muhammad has been tabbed as the Panthers Legend to make the trip to Detroit. Originally scheduled to announce the 33rd overall pick, Muhammad will likely announce pick 39 to go along with pick 65 (assuming the Panthers do not trade those picks as well). Muhammad played...

The Carolina Panthers shocked no one and took a wide receiver with their first selection in the 2024 NFL Draft.

While much of the Carolinas were asleep the Carolina Panthers swung a trade with the Buffalo Bills to move up one spot and take Xavier Legette with the last pick of the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft. The team had a dire need at wide receiver, so it’s wholly unsurprising to see them target the position. The player they settled on might be a little surprising if not for the fact that there were giant plumes of smoke...