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Let's be completely honest about this... Our WR room is AT and a bunch of question marks. Thielen is the only guy we know who knows the route tree completely, understands play calls and can regularly get open/beat close coverage when necessary. He's long in the tooth, isn't the speediest guy on the field but he plays like a pro, starting level wide receiver. Xavier, last season looked great at first, but man he kind of petered out down the stretch and would disappear in a number of games. He wasn't reliable on routes or getting open and where he was supposed to be a king at contested catches, he often looked a bit intimidated. I'm not saying he's a washout by any means. Anyone with his size, speed and catch radius could make it big in the NFL, but can he do it? He'll need to show more than he did in the preseason before we can really rely on him as a WR1 or WR2. Coker was a revelation last season, he really played way above his (non)draft status and flashed multiple times in games and was a steady performer. What we need to find out, though, is whether he was benefiting from being an unknown that wasn't getting maximum effort from opposing DBs or if he was just outworking and outhustling everyone on the field. We should find out this season. We sure as hell didn't find out much in the pre-season (from him or any receiver or QB for that matter). He's still a question mark, but I think he has the look of the real deal. He might be this generation's next Thielen. Now, let's talk about Tet. High first round draft pick, first true WR off the board this year. Stellar career out west in college. Has the swagger of the WR1. And man, y'all are going to get mad about this but... he comes across as a mook. And in the pre-season he performed, well, not so great against poor opposition of second and third stringers. Yeah, he caught that one moonshot ball in the first game but really, nothing else lighting the place up. Rookie endzone drop in that game, too. He's still young and adjusting, I'm sure, but I was hoping to see something of a breakthrough kind of guy. I'm still looking. Hunter Renfro? Gosh, I hope he can make the team and make a comeback to his old form. It would be such a great story. But maybe neither one of those happens. We won't know until Tuesday and then, if he makes it past there it could be weeks. So, TL;DR: AT is all we can bank on right now. We couldn't afford to let him go considering the number of unknowns we'd be throwing out there for our QB, who himself is still an unknown. One thing to add: Our receivers coaching group has their work cut out for them. I hope they are up to the task, but the pre-season gave me little reason to believe in them. And I really need something to believe in here in Carolina.

Same I think Randsom is a baller..... hopefully we don't have to suffer through 4-8 games of Scott blowing azz to get him on the feild.

Linebacker is the biggest need - I hope we figure out a way to address it. Krys Barnes is the only one who even moderately flashed. Super nervous about Trevin/Rozeboom as a duo (Still like Trevin) I'd be excited if we had a better vet to mentor Trevin. Or a better younger guy to support Rozeboom. They just don't fit well and it may be a big problem against the run, even with our DL much improved.

Tyson Bagent in one preseason game had more passing touchdowns than our whole QB room.

Watch the others. I don't know if he's a good qb but he has a nice arm

It's on a rope. There are other examples on x

That's a 30 yrd pass. There's nothing extraordinary about that pass.

Hate to break it to y'all but mediocre would be a significant upgrade over some of the guys projected to make our 53. There's at least a couple and maybe several names who will be on our 53 who aren't currently on the roster.

A lot of people imo are over valuing thielen. A 3rd round pick for a 35 year old wr 3/4 with 1 year on his contract and an injury history? Getting a 4th for him would be a coup. We got a pretty good young qb for less ( that we wasted)

Look at the effort or lack thereof when he throws it. Look at the velocity of the pass and the trajectory. That's a serious arm.

The pass only went 30 yards in the air. Every pro qb can throw that far.

I'm not expecting us to find a diamond in the rough UDFA QB every year, but you have 0% chance if you bring back Plummer.

Godalmighty that kid has an arm

SO if you have never heard of him, how do you know he is mediocre? I pointed out that some players are better fits in certain systems. The implication is that you find the skill sets you seek and build the roster from the bottom up. Did you think we are talking about cut superstars?

Moore had one of the higher drop % in the NFL last year paired with the worst YAC per reception in the NFL we got to get these painfully low ceiling dudes off the roster IMO

Should have taken that 4th. Big picture though, the entire thing from paying him out of retirement, to almost dealing him, etc. just sort of highlights how this org front office really lacks a plan or vision. we live in 3 WR sets. I’d take a 4th and getting Coker reps as a win for a team that needs to be all in on developing and building. I get the security aspect for BY…but developing other players outweighs the BY emphasis at this stage for me. AT is meaningless going forward and BY carries decent odds of being meaningless too. AT also isn’t diverse enough to play wide. Running the young big 3 also lets you rotate all of the big 3 into the slot while always keep 2 of them wide

He is sure handed and special teams would be my thought. I do question him over Moore.

David Moore still has decent wheels, rarely drops a pass and knows how to get open for 6 in the red zone. He and Bryce have a good working chemistry. He may surprise some when he makes the final 53.

Im fine with an hr earlier little late to try and reach everyone though

These are roster cuts. Picking up a mediocre player is a win.

I feel sorry for all of those that have gotten cut

Never heard of him But i think we have enough mediocre players

SO far, the only cut candidate I MIGHT want to consider is Chad Muma, a former third rounder with the Jags. However, the Panthers are getting some smoke from a few LBs that was unexpected, so I am not sure. Muma is 26 and may just need a different scheme, but I would call him mediocre vs the run and pass, and slightly below mediocre rushing the passer. I still think there is potential there....call me cra

I’m ok with either

Well damn. In light of the Thielen rumor, I was trying to see whether John Metchie would be cut, but he was traded to the Eagles almost a week ago.