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HUDDLE EXCLUSIVE: TheSpecialJuan's 2018 PrimeTime NFL Panthers mock, cock draft

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1) 24. CB Mike Hughes - Central Florida - By the time we pick at 24, selecting any other position besides CB would be a substantial reach unless Calvin Ridley drops. Picking a TE or Safety would simply not be a good value at this spot. Hughes will immediately upgrade our secondary and become our CB2, he’s also a terrific return man. 

 2) 55. C Frank Ragnow - Arkansas – Ragnow will compete with Moton for starting LG this season. He will back-up Ryan Kalil at C, and will become Kalil's successor next year. With this one pick, Hurney will have solved 3 questions marks on our roster.

 3) 85. WR DaeSean Hamilton - Penn State - Runs great routes, has good hands, and is a plug and play wideout. What's not to like? Hamilton is a guy who can keep the chains moving. Almost 80% of his catches in’17 went for 1st downs.

 3) 88. FS Rashaan Gaulden – Tennessee – Gaulden plays nickel for the Vols but will convert full time to safety for us. He’s got good size and plays very physical, reminds me of Charles Godfrey.

 5) 161. LB Skai Moore - South Carolina - TD will serve a 4 games suspension to start the season, oh, and he's also retiring. David Mayo will be a free agent next season and Ben Jacobs and Jared Norris are strictly special team guys. PFF lists Moore as one of the best cover LB’s in this year’s draft.

 6) 197. QB Chase Litton - Marshall - Litton is an early entrant who has the size and enough arm talent to potentially develop into a solid backup QB. At 6'5'' 230 pounds he is almost the exact size as Derek Anderson.

 7) 234. TE David Wells - San Diego State - Wells was leaned on to do some of the heavy lifting as a run-blocking specialist in the Aztecs offense last year. He’s a solid prospect to challenge Chris Manhertz as our blocking #2 TE

 7) 242. CB Terrell Bonds - Tennessee State - This late in the draft Hurney will probably pick a small school guy who we can develop. We worked out Bonds at his pro day and like him as a slot corner to challenge Corn Elder and eventualy (possibly sooner than later) replace 30-year-old Captain Munnerlyn.

  

·         First thing you notice is that we didn’t draft a DE or a RB. We have 8 picks and approximately 10-11 positions of need. We simply CANNOT fill all our roster holes.

·         Every year there is always 1 position that we all believe we will draft and come draft weekend, we don’t.  Last year was TE this year it will be RB.

·         Our offseason has not been “sexy”, we haven’t made a single move that truly gets everyone excited. This mock draft flows the “unsexy” theme. Not sexy but we get 8 good football players.

·         Hurney’s first priority for our early picks is that they have to immediately come in and play and possibly start for us.

·         With more needs than picks this year, Hurney has by now realized that trading back in the 1st round is his best option. 

·         At the very least, acuiring 1 more pick in the top 100 should be enough to fill all our major roster holes.  

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13 minutes ago, Ace_Aladdin said:

Meh , wasted 1st round pick & don't need a fuging LB even w/ TD retiring Mayo can play bigger role.

 

Whining about a LB on the fifth....! I completely expect us to draft a LB on day 3 and it'll be a good pick. Mayo has 1 year left before he probably gets a starting opportunity somewhere like AJ did and TD is retiring and suspended 4 games. Definitely need to draft our next AJ/Mayo now.

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50 minutes ago, t96 said:

Whining about a LB on the fifth....! I completely expect us to draft a LB on day 3 and it'll be a good pick. Mayo has 1 year left before he probably gets a starting opportunity somewhere like AJ did and TD is retiring and suspended 4 games. Definitely need to draft our next AJ/Mayo now.

Yeah, we were going to draft a LB with or without TD getting suspended. 

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