Former Panther draft picks and where they are now

[panther4life]

Had some time to kill and was curious as to how many players drafted by the panthers are currently still in the league.  So heres a brief time killer since the team has the day off.

50 total

3 free agents

24 on another teams roster

23 still on the roster. 

In order of league tenure no longer with us and year drafted

01 Smith-Ravens

02 Peppers- Packers

05 Joe Berger- Vikings

05 Evan Mathis- Free agent

06 Will Montgomery- Bears

06 ames Anderson- Cowboys

06 Richard Marshall- Free Agent. Has not formally announced retirement but may be done.

06 Deangelo Williams- Steelers

07 Dante Rosario - Bears

07 Jon Beason- Giants

08 Mackenzy Bernadeau- Cowboys

08 Geoff Schwartz- Giants

08 Nick Hayden- Cowboys

08 Gary Barnidge- Browns

08 Charles Godfey- Falcons

09 Captain Munnerlyn- Vikings

09 Sherrod Martin- Bears

09 Everette Brown- Free agent, spent last  year with the skins. Career probably over.

10 Robert Mcclain- Patriots

10 R.J Stanford- Lions

10 Greg Hardy- Cowboys

10 Brandon Lafell- Patriots

10Jimmy Clausen- Bears...Ironically back with Fox

11 Sione Fua - Browns

11 Terrell McClain- Cowboys

13 Kenjon Barner- Eagles

14 Tyler Gaffney- Patriots

Just to round off the list here is 23 still with us.

05 - TD

07-  Johnson, Kalil

08- Stewart

11- Cam

12- Keuchly, Silatolu, Alexander, Norman, Nortman

13- Start, Short, Klein

14- Benjamin, Ealy, Turner, Boston, Bene

15- Shaq, Funchess, Williams, Mayo, Artis-Payne 

and to take it one step further heres the other players that stand a good chance to make the roster who have only been with the panthers (undrafted free agents)

 Near locks: Corey Brown, Norwell, Nate Chandler, Melvin White, Bersin

Fighting for spot: Robet Lester, Carrington Byndom, Adarius Glanton, Damiere Byrd, Lee Ward,

Other players added via trade were Olsen, J.J Jansen and Colin Jones.

 

 

[nctarheel0619]

Nick Hayden proved me wrong.  I for sure thought he was out the league.  

[KB_fan]

Nice work.  This shows how we've dramatically gone for a "youth movement"

Of 27 draftees from 2001 - 2010 who are still in the league, only 4 are still with the Panthers.

That's not too surprising given a new GM and a new Head Coach, AND given our Cap Hell.  But still WOW.  We ARE a young team!

[Bozarden]

Only 3 of the players from the 2011 draft are still in the league. Man, was that draft HORRIBLE

[Seltzer]

Good List!!  Interesting to see where our picks are.  I completely had forgotten about Joe Berger... was 6th round pick in 2005.  Cut and then signed to PS- never played in an actual game.

Still sucks Mathis never developed here... I remember the coaches were raving about his strength and everyone thought he was going to become a great guard.  Which he did, just not here...  Would be shocked if he's not picked up- thinking he is still wanting too much money right now

[KB_fan]

Only 3 of the players from the 2011 draft are still in the league. Man, was that draft HORRIBLE

Am I correct in remembering that the entire draft class was really weak and has a very low percentage of players still in the league?  I seem to recall reading that this summer.

[Ricky Spanish]

Am I correct in remembering that the entire draft class was really weak and has a very low percentage of players still in the league?  I seem to recall reading that this summer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NFL_draft

 

First 7 draft picks of that draft are pro bowlers, as are 8 of the first 10 with JJ Watt being picked at #11.

The first round was something special, but it looks pretty mediocre after the first round truth be told. Couple of studs here and there but nothing like the first round...

Having said that, the 2011 draft produced top 5 players at a number of different positions:

Richard Sherman

Patrick Peterson

Justin Houston

JJ Watt

Julius Thomas

Demarco Murray

Randall Cobb

AJ Green

Julio Jones

Robert Quinn

Vonn Miller

Marcell Dareus

And of course, Our very own Cam Newton even though he isn't a top 5 QB.

That's just the best of the best, but that's still quite a few blue chip players out of one draft

[CashNewton22]

How is Fua still in the league?

[KB_fan]

[never mind.  something went wrong with my brain/]

Thanks for that Cracka.  Nice info.

Turns out 2011 is the 5th best draft class in the past 25 years

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000495447/article/five-best-nfl-draft-classes-of-last-25-years

I'm not sure what year I confused it with.  Or maybe I was just thinking of the fact that it wasn't a good draft for the Panthers in terms of long-term impact players.

[Ricky Spanish]

[never mind.  something went wrong with my brain/]

Thanks for that Cracka.  Nice info.

Turns out 2011 is the 5th best draft class in the past 25 years

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000495447/article/five-best-nfl-draft-classes-of-last-25-years

I'm not sure what year I confused it with.  Or maybe I was just thinking of the fact that it wasn't a good draft for the Panthers in terms of long-term impact players.

probably 09 or 06

[hepcat]

Man I thought this was going to be a sweet list of where all the failed Panthers draft picks ended up.  

For example:

Jeff Otah - CiCi's Pizza Buffet.

[Captain Morgan]

the most staggering statistic from that list is that we have ZERO players from the 09 and 10 drafts on the team, and only one from the 11 draft.

3 years of draft picks, one player on the team (Cam).

 

Now that there is some Hurney fuggin' magic, right there.  Has to be a record.

[pantherfan49]

Nick Hayden proved me wrong.  I for sure thought he was out the league.  

he left his skates in Carolina. 

[Mol3m4n]

I appreciate the list, just didn't appreciate the format.