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Super bowl roster turnover


panther4life

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Here are the guys who were not on the Super Bowl roster but made today's final cuts and who's place they took from the Super Bowl roster

DT Vernon Butler, Paul Soliai: Replaces Kyle Love and Dwan Edwards

DE Horton(suspended 4 weeks on Nov 23rd and then waived after suspension in December): Replaces Jaren Allen's roster sport from Superbowl

CB Bradberry, Worley: Replaces Norman, Tillman, Finnegan, Lou Young

WR Byrd(practice squad last year): Replaces Norwood. 

O-line Gradkowski, Larsen, Hawkins, Larsen: Replaces Felasco and Chris Scott(currently suspended)

LB- Jeremy Cash, Jared Norris- Replaces in Ben Jacobs

P- Andy Lee: Replaces Nortman

* Benjamin and Bene were on IR and not last years 53 for the Super Bowl.

**Wegher, Cotchery, Harper were also on the 53 for the Super bowl but are now gone. 

So the only real new faces we have this year are

5 Rookies: Butler, Bradberry, Worley, Cash(undrafted), Jared Norris(undrafted)

4 Free agent additions: Soliai, Gradkowski, Donald Hawkins, Tyler Larsen. (Interestingly enough we signed the latter 2 to futures contracts before even playing the Super Bowl)

1 Via trade: Andy Lee

Horton returns and Byrd is elevated from practice Squad.

O-line depth has improved a ton.

LB depth looks much better and younger

DT depth is improved as long as Butler progresses 

DE's. Hard to say we got better or worse there. Hopefully Ealy elevates his play this year.

CB- Obviously a step back from last year but nice injection of youth and much more affordable.

WR- With the return of Benjamin, the rest of the squad improving and still very young (Ginn the exception), happy about this group as well.

Punter- Major Upgrade

 

 

 

 

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Awhile back it hit me that the turnover rate each year (full 365)is around 40%. Higher if a team cleans house and hires a new HC&GM. It still blows my mind each time and this roster will be different at years end too. Amazing teams are able to overcome this each year. 

 

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9 minutes ago, UpstatePanther said:

The league doesn't know what's about to hit them. That's all I'll say.

With our long history of being a D heavy team and just so so on offense I gotta say this feels like the most exciting time to be a panther fan since 95. Now we have an offense that has weapons never seen before.

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On 9/3/2016 at 5:01 PM, panther4life said:

O-line depth has improved a ton.  Agree, Gino is a proven commodity, And Hawkins looks pretty good so far.

LB depth looks much better and younger Agree

DT depth is improved as long as Butler progresses Even without Big Vern, Solai is an improvement over Love and Dwan

DE's. Hard to say we got better or worse there. Hopefully Ealy elevates his play this year. I fear that we got worse, Allen didn't put up mind-boggling stats, but was a solid contributor. 

CB- Obviously a step back from last year but nice injection of youth and much more affordable. not as bad as a lot of people think. Rookies are gonna fug up, and losing JNo was tough, but Bene is much better than Finnegan.

WR- With the return of Benjamin, the rest of the squad improving and still very young (Ginn the exception), happy about this group as well. KB is back, Funchess looks good, and Ginn can get back to what Ginn id supposed to do, outrun single coverage. This is why we beat Denver (and everyone else).

Punter- Major Upgrade I think so too, but haven't seen enough to get too stoked yet. He is a proven commodity though.

 

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