{"id":4541,"date":"2025-04-27T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/4541\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:11:14","slug":"how-nfl-experts-graded-the-carolina-panthers-2025-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/4541\/","title":{"rendered":"How NFL experts graded the Carolina Panthers’ 2025 draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long and exciting journey through the 2025 NFL draft, Carolina Panthers<\/a> general manager Dan Morgan and head coach Dave Canales made one particular message rather clear\u2014and it was that they came away with their guys.<\/p>\n

The extended weekend began on Thursday night, where the Panthers grabbed wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan with this year’s eighth overall pick.<\/p>\n

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Morgan and company would proceed to wheel and deal their way through Day 2, trading up for pass rushers Nic Scourton and Princely Umanmielen.<\/p>\n

They then finished off with a patient Saturday\u2014sticking and picking for running back Trevor Etienne, safety Lathan Ransom, defensive lineman Cam Jackson, tight end Mitchell Evans and wide receiver Jimmy Horn Jr.<\/p>\n

So, are Carolina’s guys good enough for everyone else?<\/p>\n

Here’s how the experts graded out the Panthers’ 2025 draft class<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n

Nate Davis (USA Today<\/a>): C<\/p>\n

Mel Kiper Jr. (ESPN<\/a>): C+<\/p>\n

Chad Reuter (NFL Media<\/a>): B-<\/p>\n

Rob Maadi (Associated Press<\/a>): B<\/p>\n

Gilberto Manzano\/Matt Verderame (Sports Illustrated<\/a>): A-<\/p>\n

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Chris Trapasso (CBS Sports<\/a>): A-<\/p>\n

PFF.com staff (Pro Football Focus<\/a>): A+<\/p>\n

Danny Kelly (The Ringer<\/a>): A<\/p>\n

Mark Maske (The Washington Post<\/a>): C-<\/p>\n

Dan Wilkins (theScore<\/a>): A-<\/p>\n

Josh Norris\/Hayden Winks (Underdog Network<\/a>): A<\/p>\n

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

This article originally appeared on Panthers Wire: NFL draft: How the experts graded the Carolina Panthers’ 2025 class<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a long and exciting journey through the 2025 NFL draft, Carolina Panthers general manager Dan Morgan and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[2918,235,260,2567,3839,3838,7,3841,2220,1179,6,748,236,749,1453,3840],"class_list":{"0":"post-4541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-cam-jackson","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-dan-morgan","13":"tag-dave-canales","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jimmy-horn-jr","16":"tag-lathan-ransom","17":"tag-mitchell-evans","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nic-scourton","20":"tag-panthers","21":"tag-princely-umanmielen","22":"tag-tetairoa-mcmillan","23":"tag-trevor-etienne"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114410571932939511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","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=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}