2025 Panthers Draft Class - Overview

[carpanfan96]

Starts at the 6:15 mark of his latest videos.

Exact words were 

There were high end defensive guys that the team needed. What I thought and what coaches in that draft room thought. "That's not what we talked about a few hours ago."

 

[carpanfan96]

They then go on to talk about how his visit and interview didn't go great with the Panthers and that they didn't get into T-Mac until late in the process. 

 

Steve then goes and calls him slow and the same thing that's already on the team and a bad fit. 

[X-Clown]

On 4/28/2025 at 9:54 PM, XClown1986 said:

Something tells me Kiper would willing gag on a certain Cleveland Browns rookie 5th rounder. 

That something being how he acted all weekend, and the A+ he gave the Browns draft (despite supposedly taking his boy two rounds later than another QB that he thought was inferior). 

[rayzor]

he probably hasn't been this sure about a player since jimmy.

[Aussie Tank]

I think we hit it out of the park. The Falcons sold the farm to get 2 pass rushers and I can see a path where ours are just as good or if not better 

[rebelrouser]

3 hours ago, Aussie Tank said:

I think we hit it out of the park. The Falcons sold the farm to get 2 pass rushers and I can see a path where ours are just as good or if not better 

I was a fan of Jalon Walker until I started to think about how to use him.  

 

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"On 1st and 2nd down, I want, especially Jalon, to really have an opportunity to just master playing on the edge because I think there's something there that's really special," Ulbrich said. "Give him an opportunity just to have one home initially and become as good as he can at that.

"Then, from a third down perspective, we can get creative with him and that'll be part of his superpower."

 

SI

I would be worried about how he is going to defend run plays and bigger more athletic linemen in the NFL as an Edge.  Pearce is intriguing. Needs to add some weight but the guy is extremely athletic with a high ceiling. Trading away your first rounder for a guy with character concerns is risky, but I guess they did their homework. 

[tukafan21]

16 hours ago, rebelrouser said:

I was a fan of Jalon Walker until I started to think about how to use him.  

 

SI

I would be worried about how he is going to defend run plays and bigger more athletic linemen in the NFL as an Edge.  Pearce is intriguing. Needs to add some weight but the guy is extremely athletic with a high ceiling. Trading away your first rounder for a guy with character concerns is risky, but I guess they did their homework. 

Exactly why I never liked the idea of taking Walker, just felt he was a bad fit as an OLB in a 3-4 at his size.  As an OLB in a 4-3 where he's more of an off ball LB and situational pass rusher he could be a really good player.  

But you don't take a 4-3 OLB at 8 in general, let alone when you run a 3-4 base, so I was just always against that idea even if he had gotten a #1 WR before the draft and wouldn't have been looking at T-Mac anyways.

Edited yesterday at 05:29 AM by tukafan21

[Tbe]

On 4/30/2025 at 9:06 PM, carpanfan96 said:

Crazy, Steve Smith just said on his draft recap that talking to coaches on the team.. that T-Mac was a surprise to them because the talk earlier that day was defense first and not T-Mac. 

Well I guess we know who the leakers are.

[tukafan21]

5 hours ago, Tbe said:

Well I guess we know who the leakers are.

I don't think any information is leaked out by accident when it comes to the draft, it's all purposeful except when a player does what XL does and tell the world what a team told them.

[carpanfan96]

19 hours ago, Tbe said:

Well I guess we know who the leakers are.

I'm not so sure when it comes to Smitty. He didn't say anything about what he heard til well after the draft. 

 

Also Smitty didn't completely hate picking WR so much as the one picked.

Think he had T-Mac ranked 5th among WR, 6th if you count Hunter. 

[therealmjl]

Steve Smith don’t know jack