With the 1st Pick in the 2026 Draft....

[rebelrouser]

26 minutes ago, Hoenheim said:

I don't really love any of the QBs for 2026 draft.

Agree. It seems like every week one of them looks bad.  Nussmeir and Allar had bad games yesterday.  Klubnik and Sellers have looked spotty with bad losses.  Mateer is out injured.  I'm not sure if I would want to use a top five pick on any of these guys.  

[klumme]

This is the Carolina Panthers. We will draft the wrong player. That is 100%

[flagfootballcoach28]

Sam Leavett is my favorite QB. Great athlete. Has that Dawg mentality and Moxy to his game. I highly recommend to watch his tape from the Texas game last year and the TCU game a few nights ago. It seems like people love Mendoza, but hes a statue in the pocket.  Not a great athlete, hasn’t done well vs top competition. He has game manager written all over him. Give me Leavett, Dante Moore or even Sellers over him. We need a QB whose dynamic. 

[Shocker]

2 hours ago, Jaxel said:

Mendoza

Front runner for me right now but long ways away.

[OldhamA]

2 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

I genuinely don't even think we end up inside the Top 5 of the draft.

At some point (if not even next week) they're going to have to bench Bryce and Dalton will end up winning a couple games and sticking us yet again in that dreaded 7th-9th pick range.

It's NFL purgatory, never good enough to contend, never bad enough to get the elite QB prospects

There aren't any elite QB prospects. If we pick one in the first round this year we're just perpetuating the cycle. 

[OldhamA]

2 hours ago, chknwing said:

The Carolina Panthers Select... LaNorris Sellers, QB South Carolina

Just get it done.

 

Ah the QB of the undefeated Gamecocks... oh.

[OldhamA]

1 hour ago, Daddy_Uncle said:

Give me Fernando Mendoza

Look at Cal.

Their True Freshman has them 3-1.

Mendoza had them 6-7 last year. 

[Panthers Fan 69]

2 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

I genuinely don't even think we end up inside the Top 5 of the draft.

At some point (if not even next week) they're going to have to bench Bryce and Dalton will end up winning a couple games and sticking us yet again in that dreaded 7th-9th pick range.

It's NFL purgatory, never good enough to contend, never bad enough to get the elite QB prospects

Well Jayliwn Daniels, Pat Majomes, Allen and other weren’t the first pick. Realistically, drafting a stud qb seems to happen around 10ish. Five or take up and down the 

[Shocker]

5 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

Ah the QB of the undefeated Gamecocks... oh.

The stretch of games they have coming up…wicked

[rebelrouser]

Jayden Maiava of USC has the top qbr right now.  

[Shocker]

1 minute ago, rebelrouser said:

Jayden Maiava of USC has the top qbr right now.  

I don’t agree atp but I thought he looked pretty good last weekend.  There are a good bit of prospects worth watching IMO.  

[kungfoodude]

2 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

I genuinely don't even think we end up inside the Top 5 of the draft.

At some point (if not even next week) they're going to have to bench Bryce and Dalton will end up winning a couple games and sticking us yet again in that dreaded 7th-9th pick range.

It's NFL purgatory, never good enough to contend, never bad enough to get the elite QB prospects

I don't think that is purgatory for the upcoming draft. Top 5 would be nice to be able to get some assets trading out of it. It appears to be an extremely weak QB draft.

[kungfoodude]

19 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

There aren't any elite QB prospects. If we pick one in the first round this year we're just perpetuating the cycle. 

This. Not that there is ever sureity in a draft but this one looks VERY weak at QB.

[MHS831]

Supposedly, this is the year for a QB if you need one--

If the QB has been on your roster for 3 years and you still can't get a read on him before investing $50m per year for 4 years, then the problem is organizational.  They invested in the line--they invested in WRs, they have invested in RBs...But the coaching is erratic, the play calling suspect, and the injuries and turnover are constantly too high.  

Bryce has moments and when he is running hot and/or with a lead, he looks serviceable. He has some positive qualities--but a first overall draft pick in year three should not aspire to be mediocre--he needs to show signs that he is the answer.

I do not see the fire--the urgency--or the dawg.  I see a front runner who folds when the chips don't fall the Panther way.  When has he put the team on his back and rallied us from behind?  I can't recall a time when he has rallied us back from 2 scores in the fourth quarter.  I dunno.  There are so many variables, I can't tell the symptoms from the problems.