Fans of the Carolina Panthers are rather expert at spotting a head coach who isn’t going to last. Team owner David Tepper may have a reputation for an itchy trigger finger when it comes to his head coaches, but he has yet to fire somebody who the fanbase hadn’t already soured on. Ron Rivera, Matt Rhule, and Frank Reich had each more than worn out their welcome in Charlotte before Tepper made his decisions. Current head coach Dave Canales is not there yet. He has shown flashes of promise and maintained his infectious optimism despite his 9-16 record as a...

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

Rookie outside linebacker Princely Umanmielen is out this week as is center Cade Mays.

And Mays isn’t the only Panther offensive lineman popping up on this week’s injury report. A slew of O-linemen are questionable for this weekend including guards Damien Lewis and Chandler Zavala along with right tackle Taylor Moton.

Quarterback Andy Dalton, safety Nick Scott, and linebacker Trevin Wallace are also questionable for Sunday.

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Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! After a rough outing against the Bills, things have not been so fun in Panthers-land. But you all still came out with all your questions, let’s dive right into some answers!!

JakeNCVA: Is the Panthers’ success rate on plays from an empty set terrible or does it just seem that way?

I do think from the eye test standpoint, those plays tend to work out a lot less than they end up as negatives. I understand the idea of spreading the defense out and...

The Carolina Panthers were without Bryce Young last Sunday and instead had to roll with Andy Dalton. Recent history would have told you that the drop off from Young to Dalton wasn’t all that significant, and if the Panthers were going to compete with Young, they could do just about the same with his backup. That did not hold true against the Bills. Dalton looked old. He couldn’t evade or break away from any sort of pressure, and he might have had as many pump fakes as he did completions. He was hesitant and flustered, and the offense was completely...

Hello CSR! Its time for this week’s edition of the Panthers defensive preview, as they’ll travel to Lambeau Field to face the 5-1-1 Green Bay Packers. The Panthers defense is coming off a dreadful performance, albeit definitely not aided by 3 turnovers on the offensive side of the ball. The Panthers defense managed to keep the team in it, as the score was at one point brought to 6-3 Bills after a Ryan Fitzgerald field goal. The wheels fell off after that, and in total the Bills ripped off 245 total yards rushing and 4 TDs, which led a 40-9...

The Carolina Panthers released their first injury report of the week in the buildup to this weekend’s contest with the Green Bay Packers, and it’s not pretty.

• Brady Christensen (Achilles) – DNP
• Andy Dalton (right thumb) – DNP
• Cade Mays (ankle/knee) – DNP
• Taylor Moton (knee) – DNP
• Nick Scott (groin) – DNP
• Princely Umanmielen (ankle) – DNP
• Trevin Wallace (shoulder) – DNP
• Bryce Young (ankle) – FP
• Chandler Zavala (knee) – FP
• Jimmy Horn Jr. (shoulder) – FP
• Damien Lewis (oblique) – FP
• Derrick Brown (knee) –...

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

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Faulk is an Alabama native and was a consensus four star recruit when he committed to the hometown Auburn Tigers. He earned All Freshman-SEC in his first year and vastly improved in...

Nobody really expected to beat the Buffalo Bills last week. But a lot of us thought that maybe the Carolina Panthers could look competitive against them, even with the venerable Andy Dalton under center (Happy Birthday, buddy!). What we saw instead was so disheartening and played so directly against the established identity and strengths of the our favorite team that we all walked away with some deeply existential questions about the Carolina Panthers.

We’re going to start with our standard confidence poll. Once again, this is not a question asking if you think the Panthers will win this weekend against...

The 4-4 Carolina Panthers are still technically in the hunt for the playoffs, but hope is fading fast for a team that hasn’t been at or above .500 this late in the season since Week 8 of the 2021 season. All eyes this week are on Bryce Young. Look out for today’s injury report to see if he was practicing or not, because another week of Andy Dalton feels like a guaranteed loss. Not that anybody is giving the Panthers a chance against the Packers, with or without the questionable talents of Young.

FanDuel is holding the Panthers as the...

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Asks, your weekly Panthers fan mail bag for everyone! We’re moving on from a really tough Sunday, where the Panthers both got beaten badly in the football department and beaten badly in the injury department. It was rough sledding, but that’s life of the regular season. The Panthers are four and four so that game does not have to be a season defining game, but I know many Panthers fans faith is shaken come ask all your questions, I’ll have answers for you later on this week. Remember, you know the drill, you can ask...

If I had a nickel for every time the Carolina Panthers got off to a promising start against an AFC East opponent then had several unforced but critical errors snowball into a margin of defeat nearing 30 points – I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Or maybe it’s not weird at all, and probably should have been expected. You could have told me it was a Buffalo Bills team coming in fresh after a bye week (after which their head coach has never lost a game), with serious Super Bowl aspirations,...

During his postgame press conference, Dave Canales broke the news that sixth-man offensive lineman Brady Christensen likely ruptured his Achilles in Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills, adding injury to insult.

Christensen was lauded as a do-it-all lineman who could step in at all five positions on the offensive line. He had recently been filling in for the also injured Robert Hunt at right guard. Center Cade Mays and right tackle Taylor Moton also left Sunday’s game with injuries. Interior lineman Austin Corbett recently returned from an injury, but the line is still very thin moving forward. It will be...