Jonathan DeLong

Charlotte

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NFL Draft eve Panthers mock draft roundup

1 day ago | catscratchreader.com | Jonathan DeLong

Twas the day before the NFL Draft, and all around the Internet, the prognosticators and pontificators tidied up their mocks in the hopes that they would be the best pretend drafter of them all. Every person who is or claims to be an NFL Draft expert has been releasing their final mock drafts in the days leading up to the real thing. We read them all to hold us over knowing full well we'll forget every single one of them by the time all the real picks are completed Saturday afternoon.
Dan Morgan says the Panthers are definitely open to trading down

1 week ago | catscratchreader.com | Jonathan DeLong

Carolina Panthers general manager Dan Morgan held a press conference with about a week until the 2025 NFL Draft. He answered questions from the media about the team's process and the strategies they have going into the event. The first real question was one that always piques the interest of fans. When asked about trading down, Morgan said the team is definitely going to be listening to offers for the eighth overall pick.
Old Panthers faces in new NFL places

1 week ago | catscratchreader.com | Jonathan DeLong

The NFL probably has the most turnover from year to year of all the major American professional sports leagues. Lots of rosters are filled with short term contracts, and the ones that look like longer term pacts are usually shorter deals in disguise. Teams are often forced to let players go more because of cap ramifications than on field ability, so these players often quickly find new homes.
An updated look at the Panthers top 30 visits

1 week ago | catscratchreader.com | Jonathan DeLong

A couple weeks go, we looked at the early trends with the players that the Carolina Panthers had been visiting with in preparation for the 2025 NFL Draft. Since then, the Panthers have used most of the 30 pre-draft prospect visits that every team is allotted.
Recent precedents for a potential Panthers draft night trade

2 weeks ago | catscratchreader.com | Jonathan DeLong

If you're a fan of the Carolina Panthers and a user of the Internet, chances are you've voiced a preference for the Panthers to trade down and acquire more draft capital. It's not unique to Panthers fans. Everyone wants their team to trade down because more picks means more fun. Each year, a handful of teams are able to find partners willing to move up in exchange for a piece of their draft cache.
Post-pro days Carolina Panthers mock draft roundup

2 weeks ago | catscratchreader.com | Jonathan DeLong

We've done this exercise a couple of times now, and we'll probably get one more in the week or so leading up to the draft after teams have completed their meetings with prospects and reporters hear scuttlebutt about what teams are trying to do. All of the significant pro days wrapped up last week, which has people rethinking some of their rankings and adjusting their draft boards. We have some different picks for the Panthers than we did last time, so let's dive right in.
Analyzing early trends in the Panthers pre-draft visits

3 weeks ago | catscratchreader.com | Jonathan DeLong

The Carolina Panthers have historically tipped their picks in the NFL Draft. A lot of their selections tend to be players that zeroed in on for visits during the pre-draft process, and they tend to be pretty bad at hiding their interest in their top targets in the early rounds of the draft. With that, we can take an early-ish look at who the Panthers have been visiting with to see what position groups they're targeting most heavily and which top prospect they might be zeroing in on.
Players left in free agency that could address the Panthers remaining needs

4 weeks ago | catscratchreader.com | Jonathan DeLong

Earlier this week, we took a bird's eye view of the Carolina Panthers depth chart. The team had made a number of moves in the first week or so of free agency to try and plug up all the holes that made for a very leaky ship last season. It looks a lot better on paper than it did a few weeks ago, which obviously should be the case at this point. That said, there's still some work to be done before this starts to look like a good team.
A mostly post-free agency look at the Panthers depth chart

1 month ago | catscratchreader.com | Jonathan DeLong

The dust seems to have mostly settled on NFL free agency. Most of the big free agents have found new homes and a lot of the bigger name players on the trade block have relocated. It's been about a week since the last significant Carolina Panthers signing, so it's a good time to look at the roster with the draft pending. The offense is almost exactly the same. The defense is vastly different. Let's break it down. Note that I might not include every single player currently on the roster.
Carolina Panthers post-free agency mock draft roundup

1 month ago | catscratchreader.com | Jonathan DeLong

A lot of teams have done their best to patch their most glaring holes in free agency. Everyone always talks about picking the best player available, but holes on a roster inevitably affect which players a team is compelled to pick. The Carolina Panthers added some depth to their defensive front and splurged on a safety, so their most pressing issues have at least gotten some attention.