{"id":692922,"date":"2026-01-21T05:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692922\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:05:37","slug":"panthers-mcmillan-named-pfwa-rookie-of-the-year-wsoc-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692922\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers\u2019 McMillan named PFWA Rookie of the Year \u2013 WSOC TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">CHARLOTTE \u2014 Carolina Panthers Tetairoa McMillan was named rookie of the year by the Pro Football Writers of America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">McMillan was the eighth overall pick in the NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">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 class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">McMillan helped the Panthers break their 10-year playoff drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">He was also named a finalist for the Pepsi rookie of the year which is fan based.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">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\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">VIDEO: Panthers\u2019 Tetairoa McMillan sits down with Channel 9 amidst breakout rookie season<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/d1hfln2sfez66z.cloudfront.net\/12-14-2025\/t_0ad692ae32ce424198a7b5f0dd5a5b4b_name_t_ce504cef6.jpeg\"  width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 jibCgM image-metadata\">Panthers\u2019 Tetairoa McMillan sits down with Channel 9 amidst breakout rookie season <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 Carolina Panthers Tetairoa McMillan was named rookie of the year by the Pro Football Writers of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,11101,820,88,6,236,602],"class_list":["post-692922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-football","tag-god","tag-local","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-panthers","tag-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115931351413660657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692922","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=692922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}