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I trust the Panthers, I don’t question much but still not understanding why we passed on Jaelen Strong, I mean didn’t he have great production? Wasn’t he the more polished receiver? Isn’t he 6’4 also and ran a 4.4? I have made myself love the Devin Funchess pick, I them wanted to draft a receiver badly. Just wondering why we passed a on a proven player with potential, for a player who hasn’t really produced but has potential. Im just thinking do we think that Funchess is the better player overall, or didwe just not like Strong. Who knows, its the off season , just trying to saty engaged until things start flowing again.

 

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Several reasons came out.

 

Mainly, his 4.4 time did not match his game film.  Lack of separation was a worry.

 

The wrist issue and then him blowing off the medical recheck which most teams required, did not sit well with a lot of GM's

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I trust the Panthers, I don’t question much but still not understanding why we passed on Jaelen Strong, I mean didn’t he have great production? Wasn’t he the more polished receiver? Isn’t he 6’4 also and ran a 4.4? I have made myself love the Devin Funchess pick, I them wanted to draft a receiver badly. Just wondering why we passed a on a proven player with potential, for a player who hasn’t really produced but has potential. Im just thinking do we think that Funchess is the better player overall, or didwe just not like Strong. Who knows, its the off season , just trying to saty engaged until things start flowing again.

 

I remember specifically the FO saying how Funchess' football smarts blew them away. All things being equal, that may be your reasoning right there. Additionally, DG talked about getting guys who absolutely hate to lose...maybe they didn't see the same passion from other guys as they did Funchess.

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they had a first round grade on funchess and a 2nd round grade on strong.

 

that's why we (and a lot of other teams) passed on strong. the teams actually doing the drafting didn't have him hyped like the draftniks did.

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word has been that funchess wouldn't have made it to our 2nd round pick. several teams were really interested in him.

 

that just wasn't the case with strong. who exactly were the ones saying that he was polished and more proven? probably the same ones saying that funchess had a low football IQ based on zero conversations with the kid.

 

these draftnik hacks that people keep on quoting and listening to leading up to the draft are barely more knowledgeable than many fans and they all make a lot of pretty illinformed assumptions about what teams are looking for (if they even bother to research them at all) and base their rankings off of essentially a couple highlight videos and usually just parrot each other.

 

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