Panthers Are Trading OL Trai Turner To LAC For LT Russell Okung

[Tbe]

2 minutes ago, pantherj said:

Hopefully Okung's pulmonary embolism and half dozen lower body injuries don't start acting up lol.

Yeah, he had one injury after another last year. Missed half of the season and only had one game where he played 100% of snaps. 

[bobsfoodbasics]

 

[WOW!!]

Some of you didn't realize this.. But other were telling you they aren't giving up on Little Moton or Daley and probably bring in a vet option for stop gap and give them time to develop.. Plus it clears Turner money... Now your clearing a big contract and get a vet teacher for our young LT ALREADY ON THE ROSTER!!

[Real1zOnly]

Turner was arguably our best lineman down year or not. He was the only lineman who played nasty. I feel sorry for Cam. Another busted aging LT to protect his blindside.smh

[dcpanther89]

This honestly isn’t bad when you think about the fact we now don’t have to rush Little along and we can move Daley to G and then not have to feel pressure to draft Oline early. 

[chknwing]

well wait, can he still be a June 1st cut?  that would save $13 million,  Trai would have only saved $3 million.

[bobsfoodbasics]

i hope there are enough twit's for that poster on page 1 now

[Ship]

I like Trai but he seemed to do nothing on the line for a few years now despite being the guy we paid franchise money to. He was consistently present but that’s about all. He can be replaced with someone with something to prove. 
 

At least with Okung we’ve got someone who can compete at one of our toughest positions and either hold it down or be the vet for the youth. He’s gone after a year if we want. Low risk trade here.

[Happy Panther]

Just now, chknwing said:

well wait, can he still be a June 1st cut?  that would save $13 million,  Trai would have only saved $3 million.

interesting...

[Wolfcop]

This is more of a salary dump trade. Also get a vet to groom the youngsters. Will have to trust the process for now. 

[JawnyBlaze]

31 isn’t THAT old for a LT. And swapping him for Turner doesn’t seem like in our favor but at least we didn’t give up picks for him and we didn’t accept some low pick for Turner. Win win at this point, imo. Assuming Turner just wasn’t a guy they wanted. 

[Daddy_Uncle]

2 minutes ago, bobsfoodbasics said:

i hope there are enough twit's for that poster on page 1 now

Herp derp very funny. Glad my post offended your sensitive self that much. I literally didn't see anything about it when I looked. My bad. 

[KillerKat]

3 minutes ago, Real1zOnly said:

Turner was arguably our best lineman down year or not. He was the only lineman who played nasty. I feel sorry for Cam. Another busted aging LT to protect his blindside.smh

Don't understand the outrage. Turner was terrible and constantly getting bulldozed. We could put a traffic cone there and get the same results. He was no where near our best lineman.

[TheRumGone]

Getting trai’s contract off the books. Okung is meh. If it’s true we could cut him without cap penalty that would be hilarious.