{"id":719332,"date":"2026-01-31T15:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/719332\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:29:17","slug":"offseason-outlook-carolina-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/719332\/","title":{"rendered":"Offseason Outlook: Carolina Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/front-office-originals\" class=\"front-office-badge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/author\/sam-robinson\" title=\"Posts by Sam Robinson\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Robinson<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at January 31, 2026 8:30 am  <\/p>\n<p>An optimistic viewpoint can tab the Panthers&#8217; 2025 season as clear progress. The team ended a seven-season playoff drought and pushed the high-powered Rams once there. Pessimism would conversely point to a 27th-ranked offense and a minus-69 point differential &#8212; as the NFC South has been unable to get its act together in recent years &#8212; to indicate considerable work needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>No firing rumors followed Dave Canales or Ejiro Evero, and the Panthers at long last have achieved a semblance of stability under David Tepper. The team still needs a better answer on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/Y\/YounBr01.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-28_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryce Young<\/a>, and more help is almost definitely coming on that side of the ball this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Coaching\/front office:<\/p>\n<p>Although Evero checks a key box in generating interview slips &#8212; being a five-year Sean McVay assistant &#8212; the Carolina DC has been a fixture in receiving them despite continually being tied to teams with losing records. This marks the fourth straight year Evero has coordinated the defense of a losing team only to be contacted for a head coaching interview. Las Vegas met with Evero twice this year. He remains connected to that search, as the Vegas job is vacant, but Klint Kubiak is the favorite for a Raiders team that has been tied to an offense aim during its latest HC search. The Panthers will otherwise have Evero back for a fourth season.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"landing-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/landing-logo.png\"\/><br \/>\n  Unlock Subscriber-Exclusive Articles Like This One With a Trade Rumors Front Office Subscription<\/p>\n<p>  &#13;<br \/>\n    Access weekly subscriber-only articles by Sam Robinson&#13;<br \/>\n    Join exclusive weekly live chats with Sam&#13;<br \/>\n    Remove ads and support our writers&#13;<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/membership?ref=391011\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sam Robinson | at January 31, 2026 8:30 am An optimistic viewpoint can tab the Panthers&#8217; 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,67247,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-719332","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-front-office-originals","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115990428635808406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719332","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=719332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}