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Analysis/snips from https://lastwordonsports.com/nfl/2026/03/02/panthers-nflpa-report-card-2026/#google_vignette

If he can work on consistency this offseason and during the season, I think we’ll have a pretty good QB1.

Its worse than an ACL

It's not an ACL tear, no - it's a significantly worse injury.

Hey I'm not disagreeing with you it's the market. You have to look at what starting QBs are making. If he is being signed as your starting day 1 QB can you pay him less than 25 a year? I don't think so. Also I don't think your signing him past 2 years so to speak so 30-35 guaranteed sounds about right to me.

If we're converting him to TE, he needs to be working with Shannon Sharpe and not Chad Ochocinco then! lol

This isn't a ACL tear. I would say his chances of returning to form are great. Maybe he won't be 100% this year but I don't think this injury should change his career trajectory. How is 6'4 42 inch vertical invisible?

A chance? Sure. Paid like a sure thing? Crazy. If watching Marty Hurney work taught me anything about re-signjngs and FA acquisitions it's that paying someone like they're great hoping that it'll vault them to greatness is a plan that almost always backfires.

I think supply and demand plays a huge part in it. There are legit no other options this coming season if you aren't taking Mendoza 1 and don't already have a QB on your roster I don't think there are 2 better options than Willis and that's why you will have to pay and provide starter snaps to him. Maybe you can get him a darnold like prove it deal but I don't see any way possible he isn't starting. He played the back up to love this past season. Then when given the chance to start when love went down he looked good. That to me says hey I need a promotion a chance on the big stage.

I have been desirous of a stud TE in the past but that is too much of a luxury right now. IMO. For one big thing I don’t believe we have a QB that will maximize the investment. If people think we could recreate Cam and Greg, I would say they are dreaming. For another we have holes a lot bigger than a perceived hole at TE.

As bad as our luck has been (losing the playoff game, losing Icky, and dropping to #19 in the draft), having our biggest needs be deep positions in the draft (OT, ILB, C) is fortunate. Don't trade down, let the draft come to you.

The problem is it wasn’t convoluted. It was simple. If you know you are starting over in 2023 with a rookie QB, you plan your trades properly. We weren’t a good team and almost everyone could see that. You don’t try to go for it with a QB you plan to let go of and you build up assets instead of mortgaging the team on a physically limited QB. Our biggest issue since Marty 2.0 is that we refuse to look ahead and plan an actual long term strategy. It’s killed us. If we played the 2022 trade season properly and traded away anyone who’d get us a pick, the 2025 Panthers would have had a team with multiple additional 1st round picks and other picks and we actually could have gone even further. Nothing convoluted in that.

No ability to create explosives with the ball in their hand tremble is a nice move piece. Evans blocks really well. Add a playmaker and that’s a varied room of talent with package versatility.

That might be a good argument against spending the 19th pick on a TE. Committee is working pretty well.

I can’t imagine why they’d trade up when they have so many holes on the roster. Offensive line is low key a mess going into the offseason and if Morgan screws it up, the offense is going to take a step back. They need to find young offensive line talent in this draft and a trade up would probably nix that happening

Makes sense with Luke’s induction. Bet they have us play the Patriots or something as a thumb of the nose to Bill.

Returning as what? A backup guard? His chances to return as a franchise LT are pretty slim. Sadiq is a luxury pick. I get his speed and athleticism are elite but he can't block, has problems with drops (sound familiar), and would be invisible to Bryce over the middle.

combined production of the tight end group would’ve been near the top of the league if assimilated into one do it all player there’s nothing to suggest Canales doesn’t like tight ends.

Rams ran more 13 than any team in the league last season. Seahawks were 4th last I checked. Be at the vanguard of how the league is transitioning and don’t get sucked into forcing a pick for a LB that can’t turn or an edge with historically stubby arms.

He's not high on my list but you won't find me complaining if we draft him and he becomes an All-Pro TE. We have plenty of room on this roster for talent but we're not going to fill every need we have in the draft. We'd be dumb to go into this draft feeling pressed to fill needs. Just take the BPA at a position of need with every pick. We have enough needs there should be options at or near the very top of our board that also address a need.

Beware the guy who has a career season in a contract year. A story as old as professional sports.

Yeah, it's a spot that could be upgraded and it wouldn't shock me to see us take a corner in the mid to late rounds but it's well behind LB, OT, FS, C, TE, and DL at minimum.

I dont know... CAP hell doesnt seem that bad if you already know going into the season that you will suck. Its like a legalized version of tanking. So why not spend till you break it?

Soccer play for the day.

Go ahead and throw the game against the best team, and try to guarantee the next 3? I dunno lol