kungfoodude

Love Walker. LOVE Walker. But....he was rarely elite in college, despite being a freak.

TBH, our history with players WITH an injury history isn't great. People always love to point to the most insane outlier of all time(and should be HOFer) Thomas Davis, but we get way more Brooks than we do TD's. TBH, aside from that, I would take any of these EDGE/DE guys at #8. Pool is too deep and I am not convinced of how elite Carter is. Look at Burns in college and then Carter. Burns is better, IMO. Better player, better tape, etc. Could Carter just have that next gear that Burns never developed? For sure. But I also think everyone is leaning hard into recency bias and thinking, "Oh this is gonna be Micah Parsons!" Are we sure about that? What if he is Yetur Gross-Matos?

He has been oddly more patient with the GM's. I think Morgan gets another offseason after this, even if it is a disaster.

Also has a shoulder injury, BTW.

TBQH, I think several of these guys could beat out Wonnum eventually. Possibly Clowney, as well. His abilities will start to fade even more.

It's a small elite group but a massive 2nd Tier group. It's really why I would prefer to get 3 picks in the top 60. With competent drafting, that could be three starters.

McMillian/Johnson/Trade Back are all attractive options. The rest....woof.

If he held that stance in the NFL he would get fuging demolished in short order. They are amazing at what they do but it wouldn't translate. Hence why you have never seen it.

It would be a very Panthers move to take a super deep position with questionable elite talent in the top 10.

We are a fuging mess. I very much regret the trades we have made. They have thoroughly backfired.

Green is a candidate to go 1st round, TBH. Combine will have an impact.

I am going to say something around $3 mil. $10 mil is absolutely bonkers. Not sure you saw that recent ESPN breakdown of the offensive free agents but they had him in the $1-2 million tier for OL(Tier 6).

No, it's mainly just poor evaluation. The league's elite TE's are are heavily represented by non-1st round players. In a draft where TE is so deep, I would say TE at 8 is unwise because there doesn't seem to be a truly elite guy. I feel the same about DE/Edge.

You think he will get $8 mil????

I think most Panther fans are going to quickly see that retaining BC is likely to be pretty easy. I would make a hefty wager that he will end up with a far smaller deal that Corbett does.

Winslow was worth a top 10??? He is right, the history of top 10 TE's is pretty bad.

This is also one of the deepest positions in this draft, so unless he is Bowers 2.0, it's probably a bad pick. There has to be no question he is an elite TE. Otherwise you look as foolish as Atlanta did with Pitts.

If things go well, this is still a multi-year rebuild. Fans need to dissuade themselves of the notion of next season being some miraculous turnaround. This is a long term project because of how devastating the roster deconstruction was.

I don't think any of these guys are top 10 guys. That's a reach, IMO. It's a very deep TE class, so that doesn't seem wise. Warren is a trade down option, IMO

I will say that if we want to assist the offense, adding a high level pass catching TE threat like Fannin Jr. or Elijah Arroyo is a good idea.

I have been saying if McMillian was there at 8 I would take him for weeks. Higgins is the better option but he really has little reason to want to come here unless we are willing to outbid the entire rest of the NFL.

There will be guys available in the top 60 of the draft that can help. You never know, perhaps McMillian drops to 8 and the matter takes care of itself. Or make a good FA signing(more likely).

Draft BPA.