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[The Athletic] Panthers big board: Draft options at No. 8

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5 hours ago, MHS831 said:

Jihad Campbell of Alabama is a similar player to Jalon Walker, if I am reading things correctly.  Built like an edge, can also play ILB. Campbell is projecting in the second round but his stock has been rising--Micah Parsons effect...

To me, this ALLOWS you to take a Jack Sawyer or a Landon Jackson--imagine an ILB who can move to the edge on some downs, allowing the strong side edge to move inside to the 5 Tech with another edge at the 9 technique.  You would move Sawyer to the five, move Walker to the nine...  The QB senses pressure on that side, so he would have to trade the TE or move a back to that side--mismatches. Or he calls a hot route and throws in that direction, but Walker, from the 9 technique, drops into coverage--lotta things you can do with a player like that.

 

That's probably a trade down scenario, though. Not against that at all depending on the price. 

This draft is light on elite guys but I am not sure how high a guy that is really projected to be an ILB will be.

I don't want to overdraft a guy like that but I also didn't understand the Luke pick at the time so if he is ultimately BPA, let's fuging go.

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15 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

I see a path for it.   Likely?  Probably not but there is a path

 

 

I don't think there is much of a path unless there is a lightspeed insane run on QB's. For most of the non-QB teams ahead of us, he is likely top 2 on their board.

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1 hour ago, Peppers90 NC said:

Trade back, get Green. Win draft.

I am not sure that is a given. Seems like there is a real logjam at Edge/DE in this draft. I think there is going to be a wide band for a lot of these guys depending on team evaluations. Green could jump up the boards a lot during the next few weeks.

That's why I am really reticent to use #8 on that position. I am not even sure I buy Carter as being overwhelmingly better than some of the rest of this class. 

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On 2/9/2025 at 11:38 AM, kungfoodude said:

I am not sure that is a given. Seems like there is a real logjam at Edge/DE in this draft. I think there is going to be a wide band for a lot of these guys depending on team evaluations. Green could jump up the boards a lot during the next few weeks.

That's why I am really reticent to use #8 on that position. I am not even sure I buy Carter as being overwhelmingly better than some of the rest of this class. 

For sure. I’m wondering how far we could trade down and land him.

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On 2/4/2025 at 5:36 PM, tukafan21 said:

lol, didn't remember that Biakabutuka was the 8th pick for us (for some reason if you asked me before, I always thought he wast eh 6th pick in the draft).

Would be perfect symmetry for me for us to have drafted my favorite player from my favorite school growing up in Biakabutuka, to now draft the best player from the school I graduated from with T-Mac all these years later.

I'm still trying to figure out how you grew up in Biakabutuka. Did he eat you? Did you crawl up his ass while he was sleeping? This is perplexing!

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