{"id":859217,"date":"2026-04-07T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859217\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:48:42","slug":"diego-pavia-former-vanderbilt-football-qb-visiting-with-panthers-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859217\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Pavia, former Vanderbilt football QB, visiting with Panthers, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Vanderbilt football quarterback Diego Pavia<\/a> will visit with the Carolina Panthers<\/a> on April 7, per a report<\/a> from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.<\/p>\n

Pavia won SEC Offensive Player of the Year and finished second in the Heisman voting in 2025 after leading Vanderbilt<\/a> to a 10-3 season, its winningest ever. He’s hoping to be selected in the NFL draft, which will be from April 23-25.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt tight end Emmanuel Adebi, left. and tight end Eli Stowers, right, run drills during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt tight end Emmanuel Adebi, left. and tight end Eli Stowers, right, run drills during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia runs the 40 yard dash during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt tight end Eli Stowers receives a pass during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward watches football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia gets into passing position during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia warms up during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt tight end Eli Stowers receives a pass during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia runs the 40 yard dash during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt tight end Emmanuel Adebi receives a pass during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia throws the ball during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt tight end Eli Stowers gets in position for a drill during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia watches his teammates during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt wide receiver Trent Hudson warms up during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward, right, speaks with Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward speaks with Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia throws the ball during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vanderbilt tight end Eli Stowers chats with quarterback Diego Pavia during football pro day at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

MORE: Grading Diego Pavia’s performance at Vanderbilt football pro day<\/a><\/p>\n

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Diego Pavia stats<\/p>\n

Pavia threw for 3,539 yards, 27 touchdowns and eight interceptions in 2025, completing 267 of 378 passes. He led the SEC with a 70.6% completion percentage and 170.4 quarterback rating. On the ground, he had 862 yards and 10 touchdowns on 167 carries.<\/p>\n

Pavia, who played at New Mexico State from 2022-23 before two seasons with the Commodores, finished his college career with 10,255 passing yards and 88 touchdowns as well as 3,094 rushing yards and 31 TDs.<\/p>\n

Diego Pavia height<\/p>\n

Despite his impressive production at Vanderbilt, Pavia is not viewed as an early-round draft pick due to his age (24) and height. He measured 5-foot-9\u215e and 198 pounds<\/a> at the Senior Bowl in January.<\/p>\n

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Pavia is ranked as the ninth-best quarterback in the draft by NFL.com. ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. had Pavia just outside his top 10 QBs in his latest Big Board rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Panthers reached the playoffs in 2025 with third-year starting quarterback Bryce Young, and signed Kenny Pickett in March to serve as Young’s backup.<\/p>\n

Jacob Shames can be reached by email at jshames@gannett.com and on X\/Twitter @Jacob_Shames<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Diego Pavia, Heisman runner-up, visiting with Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Vanderbilt football quarterback Diego Pavia will visit with the Carolina Panthers on April 7, per a report…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[1476,235,260,2567,7491,7,570,6,126,236,2286,28752],"class_list":{"0":"post-859217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-bryce-young","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-diego-pavia","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-kenny-pickett","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-network","17":"tag-panthers","18":"tag-vanderbilt","19":"tag-vanderbilt-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116364218036274978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859217","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=859217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}