{"id":102590,"date":"2025-06-04T05:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/102590\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T05:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:59:21","slug":"panthers-discussed-rams-trade-before-drafting-wr-tetairoa-mcmillan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/102590\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers discussed Rams trade before drafting WR Tetairoa McMillan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ashton Jeanty talks all things Las Vegas Raiders and his hopes in the NFL<\/p>\n

Ashton Jeanty spoke with USA TODAY Sports about his upcoming rookie season with the Raiders and his partnership with Sharpie.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

The Carolina Panthers<\/a> selected wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan<\/a> with the eighth overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

However, as the team revealed in an episode of “Panthers Blueprint,”<\/a> they considered moving out of the selection and significantly down the board. Why? The Los Angeles Rams<\/a> were interested in Carolina’s selection at No. 8.<\/p>\n

“There were some trade discussions going on at the time,” Panthers<\/a> general manager Dan Morgan explained. “I was kinda hoping that the trade would fall through because I really wanted to take T-Mac.”<\/p>\n

Despite Morgan’s preference, the Panthers and Rams<\/a> discussed the possibility of a trade before Thursday’s draft started. Carolina had an idea of what it would take for them to move from the No. 8 pick to the No. 26 pick \u2013 as executive vice president of football operations Brandt Tilis detailed \u2013 and Morgan proposed that package to Los Angeles ahead of the event.<\/p>\n

The price Carolina outlined was deliberately high.<\/p>\n

“They would have had to give us the moon for us to trade out of that spot,” Morgan said.<\/p>\n

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Ultimately, the Rams declined the Panthers’ offer. As such, Carolina kept the selection and chose McMillan to partner with Xavier Legette<\/a> and give Bryce Young<\/a> a pair of talented, young receivers.<\/p>\n

That left Morgan \u2013 who was “convicted” about McMillan and didn’t want to lose him \u2013 happy.<\/p>\n

“I was kind of hoping that they would say no,” Morgan told the team’s official website<\/a>. “So when they said no at the end, I was fine with it. I was actually like, ‘Sweet.'”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Rams ended up trading down from the 26th pick and selected tight end Terrance Ferguson<\/a> with their first pick in the second round, No. 46 overall.<\/p>\n

It isn’t clear who Los Angeles would have targeted had it moved up, but tight end Colston Loveland<\/a> went off the board to the Chicago Bears<\/a> 10th overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashton Jeanty talks all things Las Vegas Raiders and his hopes in the NFL Ashton Jeanty spoke with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[247,265,240,3789,1476,235,260,2567,7,6911,239,58,248,267,246,88,6,245,264,236,424,9,266,1058,1505,5952],"class_list":{"0":"post-102590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-angeles","11":"tag-bryce","12":"tag-bryce-young","13":"tag-carolina","14":"tag-carolina-panthers","15":"tag-carolinapanthers","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-legette","18":"tag-los","19":"tag-los-angeles-rams","20":"tag-national","21":"tag-national-sports","22":"tag-neutral","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-overall","26":"tag-overall-neutral","27":"tag-panthers","28":"tag-rams","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-news","31":"tag-xavier","32":"tag-xavier-legette","33":"tag-young"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114623569195010339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}