{"id":692225,"date":"2026-01-20T22:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692225\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:39:19","slug":"panthers-mcmillan-named-pfwa-rookie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692225\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers\u2019 McMillan named PFWA Rookie of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina Panthers Tetairoa McMillan was named rookie of the year by the Pro Football Writers of America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/local\/panthers-tetairoa-mcmillan-sits-down-with-channel-9-amidst-breakout-rookie-season\/CDDNRMOZNFAKFDORMRKXFBGVYQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ALSO READ: Panthers\u2019 Tetairoa McMillan sits down with Channel 9 amidst breakout rookie season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ALSO READ: Panthers\u2019 Tetairoa McMillan sits down with Channel 9 amidst breakout rookie season<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McMillan was the eighth overall pick in the NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The wide receiver started in every game and recorded seven touchdowns, which helped him earn a second title of offensive rookie of the year.<\/p>\n<p>McMillan helped the Panthers break their 10-year playoff drought.<\/p>\n<p>He was also named a finalist for the Pepsi rookie of the year which is fan based.<\/p>\n<p>You can vote for McMillan until the end of the month. Vote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/voting\/rookies\/rookie-of-the-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: Panthers\u2019 Tetairoa McMillan sits down with Channel 9 amidst breakout rookie season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers Tetairoa McMillan was named rookie of the year by the Pro Football Writers of America. ALSO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,698,6,236,13201],"class_list":{"0":"post-692225","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-football","12":"tag-mcmillan","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-pro-football-writers-of-america"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115929832750587123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692225","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=692225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}