Should we exercise 5th year option on Benjamin?

[hepcat]

Considering what else the Panthers have at WR, you have to.

[panther4life]

10 minutes ago, CarolinaCoolin said:

Since cam there's only been a few cases of teams not using the 5th year option. In almost every case it's a no brainer. THis is no different

CAM,LUKE,STAR's production all far outweigh what we've seen out of Benjamin so far. So yes this is different. 

Cam's option cost. 14.7 Million

Lukes option cost. 11.6 Million

Star option cost.  6.75 Million. 

To me our lack of better options or ability to replace him immediately makes it more of a no brainer, than his actual on the field production does.

[jumpman910]

2nd year receiver coming off a torn ACL. He was 59 yards shy of another 1000 yard season with a lower drop rate than Deandre Hopkins and Odell just to name a few.

 Easy decision. 

[blackcat]

9 minutes ago, panther4life said:

Unfortunately we don't have the luxury of seeing how he plays next year first. Deadline is may 2nd of this year.

we have to apply it before his 4th season?

[Captain Morgan]

4 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Ahhh... well, in that case, yeah. Do it.

since he only actually played 2 seasons, it's easy to think next year would be the year to do so

[CarolinaCoolin]

2 minutes ago, panther4life said:

CAM,LUKE,STAR's production all far outweigh what we've seen out of Benjamin so far. So yes this is different. 

Cam's option cost. 14.7 Million

Lukes option cost. 11.6 Million

Star option cost.  6.75 Million. 

To me our lack of better options or ability to replace him immediately makes it more of a no brainer, than his actual on the field production does.

He had one of the best WR seasons for a rookie, got injured, then the offense as a whole had a down year. This is him coming an acl injury. 

Hes worth the money, and the control the option gives. 

 

This a dumb tread 

[therealmjl]

The folks beating the "he doesn't produce" drum are showing off how little they know about football.

[panther4life]

1 minute ago, CarolinaCoolin said:

He had one of the best WR seasons for a rookie, got injured, then the offense as a whole had a down year. This is him coming an acl injury. 

Hes worth the money, and the control the option gives. 

 

This a dumb tread 

Upon further review, I agree with you. For some reason, I thought he tailed off more this year than he actually did. 

I'm in the no brainer crowd as well. 

[jumpman910]

6 minutes ago, stbugs said:

He had some bad games and some really stupid plays, like the holding penalty (which had 0 affect) nullifying a 50+ yard Fozzie TD that FUBAR'd the Minnesota game. That said, every WR has down games. KB way outproduced Dez Bryant this year, so when you aren't playing for the Falcons, Redskins, Saints, Packers or other top 10 passing teams you can't expect to put up huge numbers every year.

KB had 9 60+ yard games out of 16. Julio is a stud, better than KB no doubt. He had 10 60+ yard games out of 16. Every WR, even the best ones have duds. If we weren't having such a bad year, no one would be calling for KB's head.

Bro shut the fug up, you know we're not allowed to make this much sense in one post

[JayNasty]

Is a pig's pu**y pork?

[L-TownCat]

He's got to clean up the mental errors and work on his blocking.  You can't be that big and violently attack a DB(although he should) in this league.  It will draw the eye of a ref every time.

His development is still on schedule even with the lost season.  He must work on that route tree and learn the tricks to get separation instead of being the bull in a China shop.

[Captain Morgan]

Some of his decisions can be blamed on his frustrations...think about missing an entire Super Bowl season, then coming back to a 6 and 10 team that could never get rolling offensively.

He's still very young.  Watching him bull into tacklers near the end of the season gave me the impression that he really wants to make an impact, and at times made bad decisions.

[L-TownCat]

10 minutes ago, stbugs said:

Our WR blocking isn't very good all around. Makes me wonder if we work on it at all. Watching KB stiff arm Grimes in the last game and destroy him makes me think we don't work on it enough.

Blocking is a "want to" kinda thing.  We've had the luxury of having WRs that loved to block i.e. Moose, Smitty etc

These young guys are going to have to really embrace that aspect of the game.

KB can do it and has shown a willingness but he's got to get the technique down or it'll be a flag every time.

[therealmjl]

10 minutes ago, Captain Morgan said:

Some of his decisions can be blamed on his frustrations...think about missing an entire Super Bowl season, then coming back to a 6 and 10 team that could never get rolling offensively.

He's still very young.  Watching him bull into tacklers near the end of the season gave me the impression that he really wants to make an impact, and at times made bad decisions.

I agree completely with this.

It had to be frustrating to miss last year and come back to an offense that couldn't seem to get out of it's own way. Probably had to fight off some thoughts of blaming himself for the sudden drop off in our passing game to boot.

Here's to hoping a more motivated, consistent monster shows up next camp.