This whole drafting the best player available talk around here is ridiculous

[panthers34]

It's best player available within reason. On defense I think we'd take the best player available regardless off his position since most defense guys rotate and can contribute on special teams. Obviously we wouldn't take a QB since he'd never touch the field  

[Montsta]

Maybe just maybe a need outweighs the BPA

It's not a coincidence almost every mock draft had us picking a WR

Mock drafts mean fug all.

Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Cam was the third best overall player in the 2011 draft behind JJ Watt and Richard Sherman and filled the need of the most important position on the field, a position that was also of great need back then. His pick was a no-brainer and still looks tremendous to this day.

[rhyslloyd]

Jesus man.

[Captain Morgan]

and OP, I wish I could be there to watch your head explode if we draft a DT

in the first 2 rounds.  We like to rotate 4, and 2 of our 4 are over 30.  What's more,

Star and KK 's contracts come up for renewal the same year, and we may not

be able to afford both after signing Cam, Luke and Norman. 

 

There is a good chance the BPA in round one or two will be a DT and Getty will probably

take him.

[Mr. Scot]

I genuinely believe that are recent picks filled a need by coincidence, not need.

Gettleman was glowing when talking about Benjamin. Can't coach 6'5" 240 blah blah.

He wanted that guy and didn't delay when he was still on the board at our pick, regardless of a need at WR.

If you would have polled draft experts last year as to what our biggest need was, the universal answer would have been left tackle.

By the time our pick came up, all of the tackles worth taking in the first round we're already gone.

If we didn't follow a BPA philosophy, we would have taken the best remaining tackle anyway, even though it would have meant using our first round pick on a lesser talent.

So basically, we'd have passed over Kelvin Benjamin for Morgan Moses or Cyrus Kouandijo.

That is why you draft BPA.

[CRA]

DG wasn't GM when Cam was drafted.

DG has made it abundantly clear throughout his GMing that the best player on the board is who his team is drafting.

Your thread kinda sucks.

BPA is coach speak...nothing more.

[top dawg]

Neither Gurley or any corner taken would contribute to extent of a WR or OT. Those guys would be fighting to get snaps

 

To the chagrin of many, Gurley may just be G-man's BPA at 25, if he's there.  Pre-injury, Gurley was widely considered a top 10 pick. Even post-injury, he is still widely considered to be in play for the first round.  That should tell you something.  All of these people aren't saying that Gurley is a first round graded talent for nothing. No one has talked about an RB like Gurley for years.

[Everfrost]

So if a Mariota is available should we draft him? What about another DT?

Some of you are taking this whole BPA thing out of context.

The last two first rounds we drafted for need. Cam would have never been a panther by some your guys logic.

We are not in the panthers war room during the draft so who are we to say this guy is the BPA.

You are looking at it wrong. It is not your BPA or the media BPA its gettleman BPA.

Just because the media ranks a player high doesn't mean the panthers do.

[Mol3m4n]

You better know that DT is on our board. If Leonard Williams falls, bet your butt we grab him.

And he won't fall.

[CRA]

If you would have polled draft experts last year as to what our biggest need was, the universal answer would have been left tackle.

By the time our pick came up, all of the tackles worth taking in the first round we're already gone.

If we didn't follow a BPA philosophy, we would have taken the best remaining tackle anyway, even though it would have meant using our first round pick on a lesser talent.

So basically, we'd have passed over Kelvin Benjamin for Morgan Moses or Cyrus Kouandijo.

That is why you draft BPA.

WR was a HUGE need. Huge

[CRA]

Gettlemen will draft by player tiered need

[Mr. Scot]

WR was a HUGE need. Huge

Not as big a need as tackle, though.

(season results bear that out)

[Germy Ego]

Blaine Gabbert was bpa when Cam was drafted. Just ask half the people at espn. Duhh