{"id":855067,"date":"2026-04-05T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/855067\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:02:25","slug":"carolina-panthers-land-elite-playmakers-in-defense-centric-mock-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/855067\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers Land Elite Playmakers in Defense-Centric Mock Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Canales\u2019s team has come a long way since he took over a club that finished with two wins in 2023. Yes, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourlads.com\/nfldepthcharts\/depthchart\/CAR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers <\/a>have now posted eight consecutive losing seasons dating back to 2018. However, the club\u2019s 8-9 finish this past season was good enough to win a division title.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, there\u2019s room for growth on both sides of the football. This offseason, general manager Dan Morgan prioritized a defensive unit that was much improved from the disaster called 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNew mock draft predicts Carolina has defense on its mind<\/p>\n<p>Late last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/draft\/news\/2026-nfl-mock-draft-seven-rounds-all-32-teams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Edwards of CBS Sports<\/a> presented his seven-round mock NFL draft. He had Morgan and the Panthers doing something the franchise hasn\u2019t done since 2021\u2014select a defensive player in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarolina continues stockpiling defensive talent,\u201d explained Edwards. \u201cAfter signing edge rusher Jaelan Phillips and Devin Lloyd, the Panthers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/seahawks\/onsi\/seahawks-news\/new-mock-draft-has-champion-seahawks-replenishing-their-secondary?page_source=v_recirc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">address the secondary with Aveion Terrell, who has the versatility to play inside or out.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Canales\u2019s team has come a long way since he took over a club that finished with two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-855067","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\/116352237248565037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855067","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=855067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}