PFF All Rookie Team

[panthers320]

DI DERRICK BROWN, CAROLINA PANTHERS

The questions surrounding Brown coming into the NFL were whether he would give teams enough as a pass-rusher to justify an early first-round pick. His run defense was supposed to be the given, so naturally Brown is coming off a season where he graded nearly 20 points higher as a pass-rusher than he did as a run defender.

Brown’s 34 pressures on the season are more than any other rookie in the league not named Chase Young. He added four batted passes to his pass-rushing stat sheet, as well. That should be the big takeaway from his rookie performance because the run defense should come along given how dominant he was in that phase of the game at Auburn.

FLEX-D: S JEREMY CHINN, CAROLINA PANTHERS

Chinn had no slow ramp up to a large role in the NFL. His 967 defensive snaps rank third on the team behind only Tre Boston and Shaq Thompson, and he leads the defense in tackles while playing 200 or more defensive snaps in each of the box, slot and from a deeper alignment at free safety.

Chinn also produced most of his better games as a rookie toward the back half of the 2020 season. His overall grade jumped from 47.9 over the first five weeks of the season to 67.4 since Week 6.

The expectation coming into the season was that Chinn would be a project — an FCS prospect with elite athletic tools who was still learning how to read and react on defense. That showed at times in his rookie year, but the Panthers will certainly take the kind of production they got from him in his first season.

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[therealmjl]

yay

[Khyber53]

Had we gotten more wins, they'd be raving about them even more.

[CanadianCat]

Im very excited about these 2 guys. 

[Jared Patterson]

Yetur was second team and had half the time as others. We looking good!

[Basbear]

I was shocked at the energy level the rookies were bring in week 17, no one hit the wall this year. 

[Catsmiaow]

4 of the 5 PFF OL rookies were drafted in the third round or later. Worth thinking about.

[AU-panther]

4 minutes ago, Catsmiaow said:

4 of the 5 PFF OL rookies were drafted in the third round or later. Worth thinking about.

I said in another thread that teams should often draft interior lineman in the mid to later rounds.  There always seems to be some value there.  

The tackles on the other hand seem to be a little harder to find in later rounds, Onwenu is a bit of a outlier and Wirfs was top 15 pick.

 

[CarolinaRideorDie]

I think last years draft class had Rhule fingerprint all over it, which is a good thing. It seems like we drafted guys who have a lot of potential and physical athleticism. Rhule has been a master of finding great athletes and coaching them into good football players, evidence by Chinn. Hurney has made some real head scratcher picks after round one, however it seems like we may have hit on our first 3 picks this year. Reports about the next GM is that Rhule will have a lot of power and say into the roster building, GM just there to sign and scout players. 

[Yaboychris28]

Ceedee Lamb not one of the wide receivers?

[Panthers8969]

1 hour ago, AU-panther said:

I said in another thread that teams should often draft interior lineman in the mid to later rounds.  There always seems to be some value there.  

The tackles on the other hand seem to be a little harder to find in later rounds, Onwenu is a bit of a outlier and Wirfs was top 15 pick.

 

yup - iOL always get cast aside for the admittedly more valuable OTs. Would love to draft one in the middle rounds every year 

[KSpan]

3 hours ago, Basbear said:

I was shocked at the energy level the rookies were bring in week 17, no one hit the wall this year. 

Shorter TC and no preseason may have been an advantage in this respect.

[DaveThePanther2008]

2 hours ago, AU-panther said:

I said in another thread that teams should often draft interior lineman in the mid to later rounds.  There always seems to be some value there.  

The tackles on the other hand seem to be a little harder to find in later rounds, Onwenu is a bit of a outlier and Wirfs was top 15 pick.

 

They are always there.  Our previous GMs were too busy looking for the home run that they were passing on solid players.