{"id":191535,"date":"2025-07-08T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/191535\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:24:10","slug":"has-another-panthers-star-been-snubbed-out-of-espns-2025-position-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/191535\/","title":{"rendered":"Has another Panthers star been snubbed out of ESPN’s 2025 position rankings?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Carolina Panthers<\/a> star has been left out of elite company.<\/p>\n

ESPN continued their annual offseason rankings on Tuesday, publishing the results from their survey<\/a> on the NFL’s best defensive tackles. And according to league executives, coaches and scouts, Carolina’s Derrick Brown is not a top-10 player at his position.<\/p>\n

Instead, he landed in the “Honorable Mention” group\u2014alongside the likes of Las Vegas’ Christian Wilkins, Denver’s Zach Allen, Miami’s Zach Sieler and Los Angeles’ Kobie Turner.<\/p>\n

Here’s what a league exec stated about Brown, per ESPN senior national writer Jeremy Fowler:<\/p>\n

“When he’s healthy, he’s near the top. Elite run stopper with some pass-rush upside.”<\/p>\n

Brown was not healthy for the entirety of 2024, where he sustained a season-ending knee injury<\/a> in the team’s Week 1 matchup against the New Orleans Saints<\/a>. Without Brown for 16 of their 17 games, Carolina’s defense went on to allow the most points in NFL history<\/a> and a league-high 179.8 rushing yards per contest.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old spoke about his plans to return after the Panthers’ final session of mandatory minicamp last month.<\/p>\n

“I expect to be out there in training camp,” he told reporters<\/a> on June 12. “Load management, and hopefully in the next few weeks, I get cleared. So that’s the goal and then at that point, it’s just getting back in football shape and being able to go out there and play with the team.”<\/p>\n

Prior to his lost 2024 campaign, Brown tallied 103 tackles in 2023\u2014a single-season record<\/a> for defensive linemen\u2014and was named to his first career Pro Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brown is now the second Panther to miss the cut on ESPN’s positional rankings, joining Chuba Hubbard\u2014who was not featured<\/a> as a top-10 player nor in the “Honorable Mention” section for running backs on Monday.<\/p>\n

Follow\u00a0@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Panthers Wire: Panthers’ Derrick Brown not in top 10 of ESPN’s DL rankings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Carolina Panthers star has been left out of elite company. ESPN continued their annual offseason rankings on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,1521,1751,1487,231,11404,12,7,2657,6388,3418,1744,1014,216,55,6,236,1626,23816],"class_list":{"0":"post-191535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-christian-wilkins","12":"tag-chuba-hubbard","13":"tag-defensive-tackles","14":"tag-denver","15":"tag-derrick-brown","16":"tag-espn","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-honorable-mention","19":"tag-jeremy-fowler","20":"tag-kobie-turner","21":"tag-las-vegas","22":"tag-los-angeles","23":"tag-miami","24":"tag-new-orleans-saints","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-panthers","27":"tag-zach-allen","28":"tag-zach-sieler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114819017252612735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191535","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=191535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}