Week 1 of the Carolina Panthers 2025 season is here and, for their rapidly dwindling wide receiver corps, it couldn’t come too soon. A shaky preseason and a couple of injuries have everybody on the edge of their seats, ready to get this show on the road before any more wheels come off the wagon. With that said, let’s dig into this week’s survey.

The first question is our standard confidence question. Remember, this is not a question asking if you think the Panthers will win this weekend against Jacksonville. This is a question asking about your opinion about the...

The Carolina Panthers are continuing their streak of opening as underdogs for the 2025 season, but the margin isn’t nearly as wide as it could be. Bryce Young may have had a breakout back half of the 2024 season but oddsmakers aren’t giving him, or the Panthers defense, the benefit of any doubts just yet.

Week 1

Spread

Panthers: +3.5 (-115)

Jaguars: -3.5 (-105)

O/U

46.5 (-115/-105)

Moneyline

Panthers: +154

Jaguars: -184

Remember that home-field advantage is traditionally accounted for by spotting the home team—the Jaguars, in this case—three points on the spread. That means this...

We’re down to single digits in our countdown towards the Carolina Panthers season opener. It’s now under a week away. With just days left, our countdown piece is focused on the player wearing the number 4 jersey: wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan.

As the second, and more highly regarded, first round pick at the wide receiver position in as many years, Tetairoa McMillan—“T-Mac,” not “Tet” per his preferences—already had a lot of pressure on his shoulders entering his rookie season. He was taken 8th overall by the Panthers in the 2025 NFL Draft and fans were immediately taken by his ability...

According to the team website and multiple other sources, the Carolina Panthers will have three players serve as the main captains for the team this season. The three players chosen were Bryce Young, Derrick Brown, and JJ Jansen. A fourth captain will be chosen each week and rotate among other players on the roster. These selections come as no surprise.

The quarterback is almost always chosen as a captain due to the leadership naturally required at the position, so Bryce Young will wear the “C” on his chest for the third time in his three seasons. The defensive captain was...

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Asks, part one of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! We’re finally here, its game week, the Panthers are suiting up for their first meaningful football since the end of the 2024 season, things can’t be better! Well, they could be, if the Panthers hadn’t found themselves dealing with a small injury bug between Jalen Coker being placed on injured/reserve for a few weeks and LT Ikem Ekwonu still recovering from an appendectomy. But, such is life in the NFL, and the Panthers will need to adapt. They brought back Hunter Renfrow to deal...

After a quiet holiday weekend of trading away quarterback Bryce Young’s favorite target and then losing his arguably next favorite target, second-year wide receiver Jalen Coker, to a quad injury for 4-6 weeks, the Carolina Panthers are faced with the first week of the 2025 season. It has been a long offseason of hope, questions, and no football. That has been quickly followed by a short run of weird injuries raising new questions for the team’s season opener this Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

We’ve joked all offseason about the confluence of the 2024 Ohio State National Championship, Jennifer Lopez’s...

We’re down to single digits in our countdown towards the Carolina Panthers season opener. It’s now under a week away. With just days left, our countdown piece is focused on the player wearing the number 5 jersey: running back Rico Dowdle.

Dowdle, an Asheville native, graduated from the University of South Carolina and signed with the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2020. He had limited opportunities behind Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elliot until his fourth year. In 2024, Dowdle took over the starting job and turned in a 1,079 yard season on 235 carries in an otherwise...

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There are 6 days left until the start of the Carolina Panthers 2025 schedule, so today’s countdown piece is about number 6 in your program, punter Sam Martin.

Before the Panthers

The Panthers punter has some ties to the Carolinas as he played his college ball at Appalachian State from 2009-2012. While at App State he emerged as the nation’s best punter and was named First Team Associated Press All-American. Given his college exploits he was selected in the fifth round of the 2013 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions, a notable feat for a punter to be drafted that...

Hello CSR! We are officially ONE WEEK away from kickoff for the Carolina Panthers 2025 season opener. That means its time to celebrate number 7 on the roster: safety Tre’von Moehrig!

Moehrig entered the league out of TCU as the 43rd overall pick of the 2021 NFL Draft, selected by the Las Vegas Raiders. He had himself quite a career there, starting 64 games with 297 tackles, 29 pass deflections, 6 interceptions, 2 fumble recoveries, and 3 sacks as a safety for their unit. His steady production at safety, despite being played out of his preferred position at times, led...

The Carolina Panthers have announced that wide receiver Jalen Coker has been placed on the reserve/injured list with a quad injury. The fan favorite will miss a minimum of four games with this designation and not be allowed to practice with the team until he returns to the active roster.

Dan Morgan has turned to another fan favorite, former Clemson wide receiver Hunter Renfrow, to fill Coker’s roster spot and, likely, his role in the slot. Renfrow was a successful receiver with the Las Vegas Raiders, totalling 269 receptions for 2884 yards and 17 touchdowns in five seasons.

Renfrow struggled...

We’re down to single digits in our countdown towards the Carolina Panthers season opener. It’s just over a week away. With there being eight days left, our countdown piece is focused on number 8 himself: cornerback Jaycee Horn.

Horn, the eighth overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, has been the best defensive back on the Carolina Panthers since he was drafted. His reception amongst fans has been mixed, however, due to a combination of injuries spoiling his availability, need at other positions available at his draft position, and the low visibility of a good cornerback on network television broadcasts....