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2 of them!

Yeah, used to always seem to be some UDFA fullback that I would get harder than a 15 yo boy in a strip club over and he'd inevitable be in the 1st round of cuts. I miss fullbacks...

Well that went over like a fart in church...

I have never seen this cat play a single snap of football, BUT, I really hope that we're not counting on a 25 yo, UDFA who played 6 years of college ball to suddenly replace our starting LB. Sounds to me like Dean Jones needed a story and didn't have anything else to write about. Wishing the guy luck though, cool nickname.

I'll go 1 further than that. This 23 year old had spent 4 years as a middle of the pack college player before exploding onto the scene as a 5th year senior, then we have enough faith in him to trade up 1 spot so that we can get a 5th year option and guarantee his salary. So in about a year's time he went from a mid round pick to a first rounder. It would be hard NOT to let that go to your head! I'm going to trust that the staff know what they're doing with XL and not give him too much crap about being a dumbass LAST season, as long as he doesn't continue to be one.

Just curious, are these the 5 you have down as locks: BB3, Brown, Wharton, Robinson, Cam Jackson?

While we're at it, pin it for all the preseason games as well! While everyone wants to "win" preseason, there is a reason those games don't count. A lot is going on... roster battles, team building familiarity with each other, rookies getting used to NFL speed/talent.

IMO: Tmac, Theilen and XL are starters and Coker, Horn and Renfrow are backups. My only question about Renfrow was whether he lost a step in the year off dealing with illness. After the very small sampling of video I've seen, the answer appears to be NO.

I don't particularly see Canales as someone that develops QBs that dropped into the late rounds, which is what you want as a backup. Not saying he can't, we've just never seen it. He's more of a bring a soon to be bust guy back from the dead kind of coach. In Seattle, he did nothing with Wilson, but got Geno playing up to his #39 pick potential, when everyone had him slated as a perennial back up. In Tampa he semi-resurrected Mayfield, who had played his ass off in LA after we traded him. He was brought here to make sure that Bryce didn't immediately wash out after we bet the farm to trade up for him, And let's face it, that's the direction Bryce was heading.

I said in the Shemar Stewart thread that I thought it was a good trade off, First round picks get fully guaranteed contracts and teams get the 5th year option. That's just fair! Maybe a sliding scale could work to avoid this type of shenanigans, 2nd round 90% guaranteed, 3rd round 80%... just my off season ramblings.

Maybe it stems from the fact that they were so bad for so long while I was growing up. It's hard to hate a team and pity them at the same time. Unfortunately, it makes me wonder if anyone really HATES the panthers right now (outside of the NFCS).

I DO feel the same...no explanation other than I grew up watching them. Honestly, if they were in another division I would wish them nothing but the best (now that that turd Brady is gone).

For the money... CURTIS Samuel > DEEBO Samuel!

He WAS the 2015 offense!

I'm not so secretly pulling for him! I really think that a year's experience in the nfl and TMac taking the D's emphasis off of him will open up his game tremendously. TMac, XL and Theilen are all starter quality WR's (I didn't say elite)! I would argue that the Panther's have only had 3 starter caliber receivers when Smitty, Moose and Proehl graced our field... until now.

Too damn long IMO!

At 5'10", 176 pounds! Out there eating up double teams!

TBF... Her was standing on dry land in an immaculate white T-shirt before his boy got stuck.

Same. It didn't take for me either.

"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

JEEZ... It's refreshing to be having a preseason discussion about which promising WR we have to cut instead of which crappy WR we have to keep! Loved DMo as a player, Loving him as a GM!

I was assuming Blackshear was gone anyway. Or at least PS.