{"id":692458,"date":"2026-01-21T00:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T00:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:48:33","slug":"panthers-wide-receiver-named-pro-football-writers-of-america-rookie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692458\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers wide receiver named Pro Football Writers of America Rookie of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; Panthers wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballwriters.org\/2026\/01\/20\/mcmillan-pfwa-rookie-and-offensive-rookie-of-the-year-schwesinger-defensive-rookie-of-the-year-2025-all-rookie-team-named\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.profootballwriters.org\/2026\/01\/20\/mcmillan-pfwa-rookie-and-offensive-rookie-of-the-year-schwesinger-defensive-rookie-of-the-year-2025-all-rookie-team-named\/\">named the Pro Football Writers of America Rookie of the Year<\/a> on Tuesday \u2014 but that wasn\u2019t his only honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He also won Offensive Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McMillan 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\">&#8211;&gt; Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/01\/14\/panthers-wide-receiver-named-finalist-pepsi-rookie-year-vote-him-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/01\/14\/panthers-wide-receiver-named-finalist-pepsi-rookie-year-vote-him-here\/\">Panthers wide receiver named finalist for Pepsi Rookie of the Year: Vote for him here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 1,014 receiving yards were also the most by a rookie in franchise history, while his seven touchdown catches are the second most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cT-Mac, he was him,\u201d bragged quarterback Bryce Young of his top receiver. \u201cHe was, he\u2019s exactly who he\u2019s been. He was elite; he\u2019s a special player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McMillan is the first player in Carolina history to be selected as the Pro Football Writers of America Rookie of the Year and is the second Panthers player to be Offensive Rookie of the Year, joining quarterback Cam Newton, who won the award in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cHe\u2019ll be the offensive rookie of the year,\u201d Young predicted earlier this year. \u201cI have all the confidence in the world, again, a special guy, stuff you can\u2019t teach.\u201d<\/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 McMillan was named the Pro Football Writers of America Rookie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,820,8161,88,6,941,236,13201,33636,9,1453,75131],"class_list":["post-692458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-football","tag-local","tag-nc","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-north-carolina","tag-panthers","tag-pro-football-writers-of-america","tag-rookie-of-the-year","tag-sports","tag-tetairoa-mcmillan","tag-wbtv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115930340133217257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692458","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=692458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}