Greatest Panthers By Position

[jfra78]

Name who you think were the greatest and 2nd greatest players for the Panthers at each position.

QB - Cam Newton / Jake Delhomme

HB - Christian McCaffery / Steven Davis

FB - Brad Hoover / Mike Tolbert

TE - Greg Olsen / Wesley Walls

WR - Steve Smith / Muhsin Mohammad

C - Ryan Kalil / Jeff Mitchell

G - Trai Turner / Mike Wahle

T - Jordan Gross / Blake Brockermeyer

DE - Julius Peppers / Mike Rucker

DT - Kris Jenkins / Kawaan Short

MLB - Luke Kuechly / Jon Beason

OLB - Thomas Davis / Kevin Greene

CB - Chris Gamble / Eric Davis

S - Mike Minter / Chris Harris

What you think?

[Harbingers]

Just imagine if that was our starting lineup this season. 

[Smithers]

Give me Dan Morgan over Beason all day

[Harbingers]

9 minutes ago, Smithers said:

Give me Dan Morgan over Beason all day

That’s a tough one. Id still put Beason just above Morgan or equal though. Different game same position. We need to draft a MLB though this draft. We’ve never not had a MLB from the draft(that was best in class). I’m not convinced they are gonna put Shaq in the middle even though he’ll probably be calling the defense this season. I see him calling from the OLB position. 
 

((that said I do think Shaq is going to ball out this season))

[jfra78]

5 minutes ago, Smithers said:

Give me Dan Morgan over Beason all day

Morgan had a lot of talent.  Damn we had some great LBs here.  Beason was a tackle machine, main reason I went with him

 

[jfra78]

Just now, Harbingers said:

That’s a tough one. Id still put Beason just above Morgan or equal though. Different game same position. We need to draft a MLB though this draft. We’ve never not had a MLB from the draft. I’m not convinced they are gonna put Shaq in the middle even though he’ll probably be calling the defense this season. 

I hadnt been on the Simmons train, but what you just said makes a lot of sense.  We have always had a dominant MLB and it seems to be part of our identity

[Harbingers]

1 minute ago, jfra78 said:

I hadnt been on the Simmons train, but what you just said makes a lot of sense.  We have always had a dominant MLB and it seems to be part of our identity

I’m just hoping Tepper sees that and doesn’t change it. 

[LinvilleGorge]

We've had an absolutely embarrassing amount of talent at MLB for such a young franchise. Sam Mills, Luke Kuechly, Jon Beason, Dan Morgan. That's one borderline HOFer (Sam Mills has been an HOF finalist), one highly probably HOFer (Luke), and two guys who had HOF talent but had their careers derailed by injuries (unfortunately a common theme among our MLB talent).

[Wes21]

Darn good list.  Personally I would put DeAngelo Williams as my 2nd best RB.

[jfra78]

6 minutes ago, Wes21 said:

Darn good list.  Personally I would put DeAngelo Williams as my 2nd best RB.

Who?

[Khyber53]

13 hours ago, Smithers said:

Give me Dan Morgan over Beason all day

And that's not to say anything bad about Beason, he was excellent, but Morgan was just brutal out there.

[Paintballr]

I love Rucker, but I’d put CJ above Rucker. 
 

are we doing this based on skills or stats with the team? I love Davis but Dwill and JStew both I think could all swap with Davis (although Dwill has burned his bridges here) 

as said earlier, we’ve had stupid level of talent at the LB position. Dan could and should have been a HoF if it wasn’t for injuries, same for Beason. 
 

Jake is basically my QB growing up, but Steve was a pretty good QB too for a short time for us. 

 

[kungfoodude]

14 hours ago, jfra78 said:

Morgan had a lot of talent.  Damn we had some great LBs here.  Beason was a tackle machine, main reason I went with him

 

Just start rattling off the list. Luke, TD, Beason, Morgan, Sam Mills, etc. 

[jfra78]

1 hour ago, Paintballr said:

I love Rucker, but I’d put CJ above Rucker. 
 

are we doing this based on skills or stats with the team? I love Davis but Dwill and JStew both I think could all swap with Davis (although Dwill has burned his bridges here) 

as said earlier, we’ve had stupid level of talent at the LB position. Dan could and should have been a HoF if it wasn’t for injuries, same for Beason. 
 

Jake is basically my QB growing up, but Steve was a pretty good QB too for a short time for us. 

 

It's basically just my personal opinion. I hard a hard time choosing between CJ and Ruck.  I went with Ruck because he had more tfl and more tackles in about the same amount of games played, which leads me to believe he was better vs the run.  CJ had more sacks, they were both fun to watch.  While Jake was QB, I always felt like Steve was a better QB and I felt like they did him wrong.  Jake went to a SB so kinda hard for me to put Steve ahead of him.