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Or trade

I think a QB goes in the next 3 picks

Cam easily. Then Star.

I miss @PanthersUnited is he still around as a different alt?

I think it'll be Malik Willis completely out of left field. And I would also take him, but preferably after a trade down.

yeah hard not to be excited about a highly drafted rookie QB no matter what you think of him pre-draft.

NFL network always.

Oher was great. Just couldn’t stay healthy unfortunately.

We may need to start a Panthers North subforum here... Bills will win a SB, heck maybe even 2, before we even have a winning season if this is the case.

yeah if we trade down we need more picks not another scrub QB who certainly won't do anything good here.

Then they can cut him or trade him elsewhere and we’ll give them Darnold for a 7th rounder and we’ll eat half the salary

Hearing this I hope we stay away from him.

Yep. He’s probably a bit better but nowhere near enough that we should consider him for anything other than trading Darnold for him straight up.

Nobody thinks there's any chance we pick Malik Willis so that's my new prediction. Would be completely out of nowhere based on the pre-draft reports.

https://www.marca.com/en/nfl/2022/04/19/625eca30e2704e04be8b458a.html It has already started to. The NFL used to administer it to all combine participants. They didn't this year and while they allowed some teams to administer it themselves for now, the expectation is at some point that won't be allowed either. Many teams this year did not administer any wonderlic tests for prospects they were interested in.

Agree. Honestly none of the 1st round players even interest me all that much. Sure a LT would be nice but honestly none of these guys are great in the context of all time LT prospects. They are solid but no sure thing in the top 10. The QBs are a mess. Haven't really followed other positions all that closely but this just seems like 2013 all over again to me. Very few elite players came out of the first round of that draft (and none from the top 19 or so) and not a single good starting QB came from it. I think this draft will be similar. Adding in that we have no day 2 picks and it makes for a pretty boring draft for us.

Speed actually can directly correlate to success on the field. I've never seen anything to suggest that wonderlic scores correlate at all to success on the field. It's a generic "IQ" test with questions that aren't relevant to football at all. There are a lot of dumbasses who can see the field and understand the game. And a lot of insanely smart people who can't. Also plenty of people don't test well when under pressure in a situation like that, and a lot of NFL prospects don't take it seriously knowing that it isn't really much of a factor. NFL teams don't really care about it. There's a reason it's going away.

Nah it’s pretty meaningless. https://wonderlictestpractice.com/nfl-wonderlic-scores/ multiple hall of famers sub-20 and multiple busts in the 40s.

Better than reaching for a QB but prefer LT or trade down

Good. Those play-in blowout losses in back to back years were unacceptable as was the team defense. I liked him as a person and he had some redeeming qualities in player development but still, this team needs a new and better leader for sure.

All indications pre-draft last year were that we weren't really interested in the QBs, so not much of an attempt at a smokescreen...

I hope our "QB interest" in this draft is all a smokescreen to get some sucker to trade in front of us for a QB, leaving us a better chance of nabbing the LT we want. But we'll probably reach for Pickett, at least that's what I expect to happen...

Lol I don't think we need to worry about Darnold having a great year.

I don't see any issue with what he said here. He's completely right. It's a random shot in the dark though and those types of guys would need to be coached up a ton obviously. But every year there are pro bowlers across every position found in the mid/late rounds. Campen's job is to focus on the players he has and get the most out of them and the unit as a whole. I'd rather have a coach that recognizes that a lot of guys have talent and it's on the coaches too to get it out of them to a degree. That's better than coaches who make excuses about the players they don't have...

Wilks is an extremely respected defensive coach and I trust him with our secondary.