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Albert Breer on Kyle Allen

TheSpecialJuan

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8. Speaking of quarterbacks who have earned it, I’m told Panthers rookie QB Kyle Allen yesterday did enough to earn the chance to compete next spring and summer to back up Cam Newton in Charlotte. That might sound crazy because he was an undrafted free agent shuttling on and off the practice squad this year. But this is a former five-star high school recruit loaded with physical ability who hit some circumstantial bumps in college, and may still have the same ceiling everyone figured he did when he was a teenager.

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1 hour ago, Cdw said:

I hope the Panthers feel he showed enough to be able to cross back-up QB off the draft priority list in anything other than the late rounds.

IMO I would go forward with him as a backup.  We have too many other glaring holes.  DE, O-Line, Safety, OLB, and Safety, so it'd be best to try to address some of those other needs and pick up a late round flyer on QB for whoever falls and let Allen compete with him.  

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You know, all three of the guys who came in and took over when Cam went down really performed better than any of us had reason to believe. Heinicke proved he was one of the toughest guys to play QB in a long time, Allen played like a guy with a season or two of playing time and Gilbert, in limited play, wasn't that shabby either.

Look, none of them could take a single snap away from a healthy Cam Newton. That's not a slam on any of them. Cam's a once in a generation combination of size, gifts, talent and ability. If that shoulder heals up, the sky is always the limit for him. Should he get injured, though, that's a good group of youngsters to have backing him up. 

Heck, any of them could outperform a Bortles, Keenum or Rosen if they had a decent offensive line.

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