2025 Panthers Draft Class - Overview

[jfra78]

1 hour ago, 45catfan said:

NFL dot com gave us the 25th best draft class.

Full list:

https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-draft-ranking-all-32-rookie-classes-plus-overall-grades-favorite-picks-and-day-3-sleepers

 

Grades are either C or A depending on whether they like the Tmac pick.  Not everyone believes tmac is anything other than a possession reciever.  I guess we will find out

[45catfan]

3 hours ago, frankw said:

No. This guy did.

Did you see his mock draft?

https://www.nfl.com/news/gennaro-filice-2025-nfl-mock-draft-2-0-rb-ashton-jeanty-goes-top-5-cowboys-jump-for-jalon-walker

This man had Shedeur Sanders going 9th overall and us trading down to pick 12 to draft cornerback Jahdae Barron.

Not defending the guy and honestly don't even know who he is, but a lot of people had Sanders going to the Saints until they literally came out the week before the draft and said they absolutely were not taking a QB at #9.  Even a few holdouts thought it was a bluff.

So everyone that had us taking Williams or Walker are clowns?  Only a very few mocks leading up to the draft had us taking TMac.  He was a popular choice to us early on (myself included) and, in hind sight, why the "leaks" of us loving Walker to the media was so common.  Verge did get one thing right about the draft, Walker was a smokescreen.  Sure he may have been the consolation prize if TMac had got taking by the Jags or Jets, but we now know who really was the #1 target.

Edited May 5 by 45catfan

[45catfan]

3 hours ago, jfra78 said:

Grades are either C or A depending on whether they like the Tmac pick.  Not everyone believes tmac is anything other than a possession reciever.  I guess we will find out

The main detractors think we should have went defense in round 1 and then came back to WR in either rounds 2 or 3.   In other words, DEF>>>WR in terms of need and thus dinged us on the grade.

[rebelrouser]

18 hours ago, 45catfan said:

So everyone that had us taking Williams or Walker are clowns?

Those are bad picks at 8.  The draft grade depends on how you view TMac. We viewed him highly (that scares me since our scouts appear to suck at wr eval.). Taking Walker or Williams would have been bad at 8; one was injured for a whole year and the other was a tweener.  The move was to trade back. However, if we broadcast we wanted to move up as a smoke screen (which we did) then those trade back offers would have been weak.

[CarolinaLivin]

 

[tukafan21]

Have they said when the Blueprint Draft episode is going to be released?

Kinda weird to put out the teaser but not a date for it, already itching to watch all the T-Mac stuff

Edited 28 minutes ago by tukafan21