{"id":818814,"date":"2026-03-18T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:22:32","slug":"all-the-dots-connected-to-bring-kenny-pickett-to-the-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818814\/","title":{"rendered":"All the dots connected to bring Kenny Pickett to the Panthers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the experience and ability are part of why the Panthers wanted the 6-3 and 220-pound passer here. General manager Dan Morgan expressed an interest this offseason in providing some competition at the backup quarterback spot with someone young and mobile.<\/p>\n<p>Young is firmly the starter, but competition at the backup spot with <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/andy-dalton\/\" title=\"Andy Dalton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Dalton<\/a> will also give Carolina a chance to develop someone still in the early stages of their career while providing a compliment to Young, whether it be on a play or in the case of injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think (Bryce and I are) very similar in how we play,&#8221; noted Pickett. &#8220;I think we both operate well from the pocket, and when things break down, we can make plays on the move. I think Coach does a lot of things play action-wise, boots, you get out on the edge, and we both can throw the ball well on the run.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I think I think we kind of complement each other in what we do. We&#8217;re excited to learn more about how he sees things, talk X&#8217;s and O&#8217;s, and get to know him better as a person first. But yeah, I think it&#8217;s definitely exciting being in a room where you feel like we kind of play the same way and we kind of, the same mold of what they&#8217;re looking for here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the experience and ability are part of why the Panthers wanted the 6-3 and 220-pound passer here.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[103558,79,235,260,2567,7,81,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-818814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-2026-free-agency","9":"tag-app-news","10":"tag-carolina","11":"tag-carolina-panthers","12":"tag-carolinapanthers","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116249449898144575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818814","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=818814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}