Carolina Panthers Day 2 Draft Grade

[Kevin Greene]

Pick 55 Rashaan Gaulden, DB

Pick 85 Dante Jackson, DB

Pick 88 trade down for picks 101 and 147

[TylerDurden]

Edit...  actually D.

[Dex]

loved Jackson pick. A-

No clue who Gaulden is but seems like a bit of a reach right now. C +

good trade there's a lot of value in the mid rounds. A -

 

B+

[frash.exe]

we came away with an undersized corner and a DB we’re going to convert to safety

yep, sounds like marty’s drafting again

[Inimicus]

I vote A because its the only one that doesnt have a vote yet

[LinvilleGorge]

Hope I'm wrong, but I'm going D. Jackson seems like a workout warrior to me who's a better athlete than football player and he's under 180 pounds? Yikes. Gaulden I'm not sure about. I have no idea where we're going to play him. He played mostly in the slot in college. I'm hoping that we see him as a safety, but once again we'd be drafting a guy with the intention of changing his position. The draft pick value chart says we got fleeced in the trade.

On paper, not good but games aren't played on paper. We shall see. History isn't on our side on this one.

[TheWiz]

Marty Hurney doesn't watch football.

[Growl]

it was literally 3 days ago where Hurney as all like "I think rounds 2 and 3 are the meat of the draft" and now he's abandoning ship as fast as possible so he could take a 5th round nobody

[Growl]

this team desperately needed two starters today and we got none.

Good teams get starters in the 3rd. But were back in 2007 where Hurndog sees it as the time to start experimenting with combine tweeners.

[carpanfan96]

Considering many had Gaulden with a second grade to get an improvement at CB even if its slot or safety is a good pick. 

Jackson is easily a second round prospect with late first round grades and also improves the Panthers good awful secondary from last season. He's also probably the best pure athlete in the draft at DB. He takes good angles, has make up speed, plays the ball well just doesnt catch it well. 

The trade back wasnt that big of a difference in points. Basically the equivalent of a pick around 177 or so in the 6th round was the difference in value. 

Solid B draft day, combined with the first round A equals a good job so far. 

[HeelsPayTheBills]

I believe Hurney just dropped the Panthers sales price by a half a billion.

[carpanfan96]

8 minutes ago, Growl said:

this team desperately needed two starters today and we got none.

Good teams get starters in the 3rd. But were back in 2007 where Hurndog sees it as the time to start experimenting with combine tweeners.

Roughly 12% of 3rd round draft picks become starters in the NFL. To expect to hit on two is absurd. Hell only about 17% of 2nd round picks become nfl Starters

[Ricky Spanish]

We wasted a second round pick on a slot corner when we have 2 other guys who play slot already on the roster ahead of him. He's undersized both height wise and weight wise, and we are in a division with Mike Evans, Julio Jones, and Michael Thomas, and our solution is a 5'10" 178lb feather. 

Then we got some tweener who doesn't have a true position in the secondary because Hurney loves to draft converts in the 3rd. 

Day 2 screams vintage Hurney to me. 

I give it a D just because they technically drafted positions of need, but there were far better prospects available at the time. 

[Carolina Cajun]

I'd give Jackson a B, not who I wanted, but not atrocious.  Gaulden gets something worse than an F, maybe a G-minus.  It was a complete idiotic waste of a pick.