{"id":678260,"date":"2026-01-15T03:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/678260\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:54:32","slug":"panthers-wide-receiver-named-finalist-for-pepsi-rookie-of-the-year-vote-for-him-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/678260\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers wide receiver named finalist for Pepsi Rookie of the Year: Vote for him here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; Panthers wide receiver Tetairoa McMillian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/news\/tetairoa-mcmillan-a-finalist-for-pepsi-rookie-of-the-year-fans-can-vote-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/news\/tetairoa-mcmillan-a-finalist-for-pepsi-rookie-of-the-year-fans-can-vote-now\">is a finalist for the Pepsi Rookie of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After McMillian\u2019s dynamic rookie season, the league announced Tuesday, Jan. 13, that he was a finalist for the award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McMillian finished his rookie campaign 14th overall in the league with 1,014 yards, seven touchdowns, and 70 receptions, leading all rookie pass-catchers in each category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think we definitely envisioned what we got, otherwise, I don\u2019t think we would have drafted him at No. 8,\u201d bragged general manager Dan Morgan on Tuesday of the Top 10 pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 22-year-old receiver notably won Rookie of the Week in Week 6 after scoring his first two touchdowns of his career in the Panthers win over the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To vote for McMillian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/voting\/rookies\/rookie-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/voting\/rookies\/rookie-of-the-year\">visit this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WBTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; Panthers wide receiver Tetairoa McMillian is a finalist for the Pepsi Rookie of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[13739,235,260,2567,9475,230,3839,7,820,26710,88,6,941,236,98862,2583,8345,9,98861,75131,1473],"class_list":["post-678260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-award","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-charlotte","tag-cowboys","tag-dan-morgan","tag-football","tag-local","tag-mecklenburg-county","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-north-carolina","tag-panthers","tag-pepsi-rookie-of-the-year","tag-rookie","tag-rookie-season","tag-sports","tag-tetairoa-mcmillian","tag-wbtv","tag-wide-receiver"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115897097620927659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678260","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=678260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}