Carolina Panthers Mini Camp Notes - June 18

[Jeremy Igo]

The Carolina Panthers finished their offseason workout in spirited fashion. This was one of the better practices to have witnessed. No punches were thrown, but it was exciting none the less. 

Here are the highlights...

• Konly Ealy impressed early with a reaching bat down of a Cam Newton pass. Could Ealy be using yesterday's fisticuffs at motivation?
• Starting corners today were Josh Norman and Peanut Tillman for the first half of practice, and then Benwikere replaced Tillman for the rest. 
• Starting safeties were Tre Boston and Roman Harper.
• Josh Norman was very physical with Gamecocks rookie WR Damiere Byrd at the line, jamming him at the line. After the play, Josh would walk over to Byrd with encouragement, telling him what he did and how to counter it. 
• Daryl Williams was the starting right tackle for most of the day. Mike Remmers spent time at center with the first and second unity. It is unclear if this is more than typical evaluation. 
• TE Jamie Childers dropped a sure TD from Cam Newton. Not a great way to make an impression with the first team. 
• Todman hauled in another nice touchdown from Derek Anderson out of the backfield. Todman has impressed as of late. 
• CB Lou Young has looked less than average until today. He made a couple of nice plays on the ball. 
• Bene Benwikere's quickness is an obvious asset to the Panthers. He is at the receiver instantly on Cam Newton check downs. 
• Corey Brown again showed nice hands with an important sideline grab from Cam Newton. 
• Devin Funchess also showed impressive hands today on a quick out from Cam Newton. Cam Newton had a couple of poor overthrows today to Ted Ginn, but Funchess is more difficult to place the ball out of reach for. 
• A scary moment today happened when Cam Newton took a hard fall to the ground after slipping on the turf. There were many slips this year in practices for everyone.
• During the last first team drills, the offensive tackles were Martin and Williams. 
• Jarrett Boykin dropped a sure TD from Cam Newton. Boykin tried to cradle the ball, but it bounced off his chest. Boykin has struggled throughout OTAs and Mini Camp. 
• Damiere Byrd is looking like a keeper, at least on the practice squad. His snaps have been increasing as some others have been decreasing. He is taking full advantage of them. 

 

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[VerticalThreat]

My favorite point was JNo24 being a leader and helping out an UDFA rookie on OFFENSE. Man, that guy has come a long way. Talk about becoming more comfortable in his own skin, we've seen him really grow over the last few years.

 I hope:

1) He balls out this year.

2) We're able to make it work financially to keep him.

[Nick_81]

Nice work.  Curious to know the reason for moving Remmers in and out at center.  I wonder if they think he could be an eventual Kalil replacement, if Williams steps up at RT.  Probably over thinking it though... 

[brandon_87]

That is all great info, pleasure to read

[Darth Biscuit]

Can we wrap Cam up in some bubble wrap or something?

[SCMunnerlyn1]

I hope both norman and tillman keep helping receivers learn how to counter them as well as maybe cotchery doing some our dbs a solid and helping them see exact breaks in his route or where to look for that vet pushoff to come out.

[CarolinaNCSU]

Love hearing that about Norman.  Seems he's maturing nicely and focusing his energy into his swag instead of stupidity. 

 

Pay that man. 

[SetfreexX]

Nice work.  Curious to know the reason for moving Remmers in and out at center.  I wonder if they think he could be an eventual Kalil replacement, if Williams steps up at RT.  Probably over thinking it though... 

​I think it's more can we make Brian Folkerts expendable and carry 9 OL opening a spot up elsewhere on the roster. 

LT-Oher, Martin

LG-Norwell, Silatolu

C-Kalil, Remmers

RG-Turner, Scott

RT-Remmers, Williams

Perhaps a 6th WR, DB, or a 7th LB vs the 6 we carried last year, or a spot strictly for a ST player, or UDFA we don't want to risk on PS. 

Edited June 18, 2015 by SetfreexX

[TheRumGone]

here's hoping byrd continues to impress and finds his way as our last receiver on the depth chart.

hope he's like a john brown type of player. that would be insane.

[Moorgan]

• Josh Norman was very physical with Gamecocks rookie WR Damiere Byrd at the line, jamming him at the line. After the play, Josh would walk over to Byrd with encouragement, telling him what he did and how to counter it. 
• Daryl Williams was the starting right tackle for most of the day. Mike Remmers spent time at center with the first and second unity. It is unclear if this is more than typical evaluation. 
• Damiere Byrd is looking like a keeper, at least on the practice squad. His snaps have been increasing as some others have been decreasing. He is taking full advantage of them. 

​Three biggest highlights for me as others have said. Really love that bit about Norman helping the WR. I think Darryl Williams may start a preseason game or two at RT which could solidify a starting spot. Byrd should get a ton of show time in preseason since we know at least 2 guys will sit early and often in those preseason games.

[SetfreexX]

here's hoping byrd continues to impress and finds his way as our last receiver on the depth chart.

hope he's like a john brown type of player. that would be insane.

​2QBs

3Hbs

2FBs

6WRs

3TEs

9OL

That's a total of 25 players for the offense, if we go 25 on defense, that leaves the 3 ST's spots K/P/LS. I'd like to see Byrd make it if he's been taking advantage of his opportunities.

5DEs

4DTs

6LBS

6DBs

4Ss = 25

[KillerKat]

​I think it's more can we make Brian Folkerts expendable and carry 9 OL opening a spot up elsewhere on the roster. 

LT-Oher, Martin

LG-Norwell, Silatolu

C-Kalil, Remmers

RG-Turner, Scott

RT-Remmers, Williams

Perhaps a 6th WR, DB, or a 7th LB vs the 6 we carried last year, or a spot strictly for a ST player, or UDFA we don't want to risk on PS. 

​Folkerts > Silatolu

he can play guard too.

[KillerKat]

btw has Robert Lester done anything?

[Moorgan]

3Hbs

​If what you say were true, this would be a very hard part of the roster to figure out. With Igo saying Todman has looked good, the question of Stewart, Fozzy, Todman and CAP makes for a difficult choice. If one were placed on the PS they would surely get snatched by someone.