Who?!?!

[Guest Bwood]

Every year, mostly in the 2nd/3rd of the draft, we all have our list of guys we'd love to have on the Panthers and sure enough we go ahead and draft some guy we've never really heard of.

Last year, we had the first pick in the 3rd round and we selected Terrell McClain. Even with how many mock drafts I made that year and all of the prospects I studied, I had nothing on McClain, and he definitely wasn't the guy I was expecting.

2010 - I heard Sherrod Martin's name maybe once in the offseason leading up to the draft. I was itching for one of the big name corner's and then we select Martin.

2009 - Corey Irvin, there were so many other great options here. This is another one that I had to scrounge up some info on because I hadn't a clue who he was.

But enough with the examples, its obviously a trend. So with that being said, do you guy's think this foreshadows the possibility of us taking another unknown prospect?

I'm really hoping we utilize that 40th pick..

[C47]

A couple of "non sexy" names I think we could take a long look at are James Hanna at TE, Jeff Fuller WR, Chris Owusu WR, Levy Adcock OT, and Hebron Fangupo NT.....

[Panthro]

i wanted jurrell casey

[chknwing]

well, last years draft, we did get production out of players selected after Cam, Fua and Mcclain did ok for rookies, kinda overwealmed after so many players went down from injury, not nearly the disappointment as past picks. Hogans injury prevented him from seeing the field much, Pilares contributed, especially that nice TD return. So if last years draft is a sign of things to come, I'm ok with it.

[Guest Bwood]

well, last years draft, we did get production out of players selected after Cam, Fua and Mcclain did ok for rookies, kinda overwealmed after so many players went down from injury, not nearly the disappointment as past picks. Hogans injury prevented him from seeing the field much, Pilares contributed, especially that nice TD return. So if last years draft is a sign of things to come, I'm ok with it.

Even when you look at last year though, there were guy's available that I could of sworn we would take if we had the chance in the later rounds.

Did anyone honestly know who Terrell McClain, Brandon Hogan, or Kealoha Pilares were before we drafted them?

[nickzz]

Even when you look at last year though, there were guy's available that I could of sworn we would take if we had the chance in the later rounds.

Did anyone honestly know who Terrell McClain, Brandon Hogan, or Kealoha Pilares were before we drafted them?

a lot of people knew who brandon hogan was

[Pejorative Miscreant]

Want to give Fua and McClain at least some benefit of the doubt. DT is a position that guys usually need to develop into. The fact that they were mid round draft picks should indicate that they were not exactly ready to slide into a starting role. So then we get into the season and not one but both are starting. This totally exposes them and to a certain degree slows the learning curve. If they had been part of a rotation with veteran guys I think they may not have looked as bad as they did. Maybe its offseason optimism but I think one or both will show great improvement. I don't think they will be world beaters but do think that this time next year we will value the picks.

[unicar15]

I'm just hoping that Hurney doesn't do something stupid like trading away multiple 1sts and 2nds in order to move up and try for a quick fix on a position like DT. I just want them to be patient, ACQUIRE PICKS instead of trading pick after pick, and draft some good players on the defense. Its not like we have to make a huge splash in rounds 4-7. We've got two impact linebackers coming back and a guy we hope can anchor the DL at DT in Ron Edwards. Get an impact, starter quality player with our first pick (hopefully Claiborne but probably Cox or Coples) then pick up a corner in the 2nd round....not a freaking safety that you want to convert to corner...get a dadgum cornerback. Stephon Gilmore would be a hell of a pick in round two.

If we get any combination of Cox, Coples, Claiborne in the first and Gilmore, Worthy, David, Dennard in the second it'll be a promising first two rounds. I don't want any part of Jenkins and IDT we'll go there...leave him for the Bengals.

[C47]

I knew who Pilares was because he dominated USC's secondary in 2009...

[Guest Bwood]

I knew who Pilares was because he dominated USC's secondary in 2009...

Hold up, are you a Lakers, Dodgers and Panthers fan? No way.

[C47]

Hold up, are you a Lakers, Dodgers and Panthers fan? No way.

Hold up, are you a Lakers, Dodgers and Panthers fan? No way.

And Trojans...tis true. Live in CLT now...

[Guest Bwood]

And Trojans...tis true. Live in CLT now...

Screw USC. But on the real thats pretty awesome man, I coulda sworn I was the only human with that combination of teams.

What part of So-cal are you from?

[JawnyBlaze]

If you hadn't heard Terrell McClain's name before we drafted him you certainly weren't hanging out at this board. There was plenty of McClain talk before we drafted him.

[Herbert The Love Bug]

Rivera is going to make sure we get the right guys. I know that for a fact. No more of this taking a chance on a guy stuff. He is going to look at probably hundreds of different people are really study and get to know them and make the right decision. He knows how important getting the draft right is unlike some others in the panthers past.