{"id":833524,"date":"2026-03-25T20:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/833524\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:38:16","slug":"panthers-address-2-massive-needs-in-field-yatess-latest-mock-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/833524\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers Address 2 Massive Needs In Field Yates\u2019s Latest Mock Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as predicting what position a team will target in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/panthers\/onsi\/draft\/1-prospect-the-panthers-would-love-to-be-able-to-draft-in-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> NFL Draft<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/panthers\/onsi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> are one of the hardest to predict because of the moves they\u2019ve made in free agency. Before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/panthers\/onsi\/both-jaelan-phillips-and-devin-lloyd-present-major-risks-for-carolina-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signing Jaelan Phillips and Devin Lloyd<\/a> to multi-year contracts, almost every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/panthers\/onsi\/panthers-make-stunning-decision-in-todd-mcshay-s-latest-mock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mock draft<\/a> had Carolina taking one of those positions in the draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now that the defense has been largely addressed, the Panthers are in a position to take the best available prospect, and in the latest mock, they do just that while also addressing crucial needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPanthers Make 2 Offensive Selections in Yates Mock Draft<\/p>\n<p>Field Yates dropped his latest mock draft on Tuesday morning, and in the two-round mock, he has the Panthers making two crucial selections. One of them gives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/panthers\/onsi\/where-bryce-young-ranks-among-recent-top-qbs-ft-fernando-mendoza-drake-maye\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Young<\/a> another star target, the other helps give Young time to find that target.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Franchise Tight End Of the Future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As far as predicting what position a team will target in the NFL Draft, the Carolina Panthers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-833524","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-nfl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116291745287411384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833524","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=833524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}