Panthers Mock Draft Rounds 1 - 3

[WOW!!]

Who is Brockton

Brockel Igo my bad..

[LinvilleGorge]

What I see in O'Leary is Jeff King with better hands. I just don't think the hands are gonna matter much because he's just too slow to get open in the NFL. Virtually every LB in the NFL is faster than this guy.

[Jeremy Igo]

Brockel Igo my bad..

It's not a good comparison. This guy has great hands. Brockel has stone hands. Big difference.

Also, the new regime looks at production and play, not combine measureables. That's why they had the best draft in a decade last season.

This kid is a good value in the late third round.

[Jeremy Igo]

What I see in O'Leary is Jeff King with better hands. I just don't think the hands are gonna matter much because he's just too slow to get open in the NFL. Virtually every LB in the NFL is faster than this guy.

Better run blocker than Jeff king ever was. We need run blocking desperately.

[WOW!!]

It's not a good comparison. This guy has great hands. Brockel has stone hands. Big difference.

Also, the new regime looks at production and play, not combine measureables. That's why they had the best draft in a decade last season.

This kid is a good value in the late third round.

He sucks Igo it's a bad TE draft and he's not even the best of that crap.. it's a horrible pick and a slap to Cam's face to call Oleary a offensive weapon in this league. .

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

Agreed with going receiver in the third if the draft shaped up that way in the first two rounds. Need speed on the outside in the worst way. If we want to replace Tolbert in his "fullback" role I'd rather we draft a prototypical fullback in the 6th or 7th. We need a mauling blocking back that can pick up blitzes if we are really trying to be a ground and pound offense (even though I'd rather we push more towards a passing offense).

[LinvilleGorge]

Better run blocker than Jeff king ever was. We need run blocking desperately.

How many snaps a game does Tolbert see? You really wanna spend a 3rd round pick on a less dynamic version of Tolbert?

[DaCityKats]

that is a very bad 3rd round pick.

[CPantherKing]

Both Landon Collins and Jake Fisher would need to fall a ways for the Panthers to get them at those picks.

 

All the good DL, OT, and QBs are gone in the first 20 picks. The top 2 safeties and LBs are typically gone as well. When you are sitting at the bottom of the first round the BPAs the fall are typically RB and WR.

 

2014 BPAs that fell to the late 1st were WR and TE. Kelvin Benjamin, Marqise Lee, Jordan Matthews, Allen Robinson, Jace Amaro, and ASJ.

2013 It was WR and RB. DeAndre Hopkins, Cordarelle Patterson, Robert Woods, Giovanni Bernard, Le'Veon Bell, and Eddie Lacy.

2012 It was WR, LB, RB and TE. Doug Martin, Stephen Hill, Alshon Jeffrey, LaMichael James, Reuben Randle, Bobby Wagner, Coby Fleener and Lavonte David.

2011 It was WR, RB and TE. Mark Ingram, Randall Cobb, Torrey Smith, and Kyle Rudolph.

2010 It was WR, TE, and LB. Demaryius Thomas, Dez Bryant, Rob Gronkowski, Golden Tate, Sean Lee, Navorro Bowman and Brandon Spikes.

 

Past 5 seasons of players who dropped to the end of the first round and into the second round. They were projected higher by "experts".

 

This season I am expecting that the BPAs dropping to the late 1st round and 2nd round to be Melvin Gordon, Todd Gurley, Davante Parker, Devin Funchess, Jaelen Strong, Dorial Green-Beckham, and Devin Smith. 

[Jeremy Igo]

Nah. He is a football player. People who pay way too much attention to combine numbers don't like him. Luckily, the Panthers now look at game tape.

[LinvilleGorge]

O'Leary benefited greatly from having a great college QB. You're acting like he dominated. The guy had 600 receiving yards. Hell no to that guy in the 3rd. Not with the depth at WR in this class. I wouldn't even look at him until at least the 5th.

[WOW!!]

I have no clue why Igo is all hype about a TE/H-BACK who runs a 4.93 40'.. He can be covered by Dlinemen. .

That is horrible value drafting a blocking back in the 3rd round..

[TheNewStandard]

I have no clue why Igo is all hype about a TE/H-BACK who runs a 4.93 40'.. He can be covered by Dlinemen. .

That is horrible value drafting a blocking back in the 3rd round..

half of last season that is what Olsen was used as.

drop Tolbert, who has suspect hands and durability issues and pick up a hybrid TE that eats nails and spits out bullets for breakfast.

O'leary is a gamer on a National Championship team with a great background and no record of injuries. Line Tolbert up against O'Leary and I put the house on the Irish.

[LinvilleGorge]

I like O'Leary as a football player, I just HATE him in the 3rd round. There are very serious concerns that he's simply not an NFL caliber athlete. You don't draft that kind of guy until late if at all.