{"id":867405,"date":"2026-04-16T01:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/867405\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:45:19","slug":"carolina-panthers-gm-offers-hint-about-teams-draft-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/867405\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers GM Offers Hint About Team&#8217;s Draft Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Morgan has been the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/carolina-panthers\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"524\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a>\u2018 general manager for two draft processes. The 2026 NFL Draft will be his third as president of football operations\/GM. Ironically enough, Morgan, a former NFL linebacker, has invested a first-round pick in a wide receiver in the only two drafts he\u2019s presided over. <\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the Panthers made Xavier Legette the 32nd overall pick in the first round. He\u2019s yet to compile a total of 1,000 yards (860 career total). Meanwhile, last year\u2019s selection, Tetairoa McMillan, who was the eighth overall pick, racked up 1,014 receiving yards while taking home Offensive Rookie of the Year honors in his first season.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Panthers selecting a receiver in the first round in each of the past two drafts, Carolina still has a need at the position. After all, Legette hasn\u2019t developed into the star the Panthers hoped for, not like McMillan has. <\/p>\n<p>Even though the Panthers have done it in back-to-back years, their GM still says Carolina could target another receiver with their first-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, where they pick 19th. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. I\u00a0think with anything, we\u2019re going to take the best player,\u201d Morgan said, via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/news\/six-takeaways-from-gm-dan-morgan-getting-to-know-prospects-at-a-human-level-wide-receiver\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/news\/six-takeaways-from-gm-dan-morgan-getting-to-know-prospects-at-a-human-level-wide-receiver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">team\u2019s website<\/a>. \u201cSo if the best player we feel is that at 19, I wouldn\u2019t hesitate to draft another wideout. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a rule that says you can\u2019t draft a wide receiver three years in a row. So I\u2019m not really going to box us in and say we\u2019re not going to draft him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers have commonly been projected to target a receiver in the first round. After seeing how much of an impact McMillan had on former No. 1 overall pick <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/bryce-young\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"33324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Young<\/a>\u2018s game, one can\u2019t help but wonder if a more complete and consistent group of receivers could really unlock Carolina\u2019s scoring attack. The Panthers may feel the same way. <\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nfl\/2026-nfl-mock-draft-trades-take-over-first-round\" type=\"post\" id=\"1411924\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NFL Mock Draft: Trades Take Over First Round of NFL Draft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776303919_879_cdc369fe6a9c435ab1a9344f358409a43c884a12b775d8a8492a08641e9e201e.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tDedicated  NFL  copywriter\/editor.  My  work  has  been  found  on  Sportsnaut,  Sports  Illustrated,  Sporting  News,  MSN,  Yahoo,  and  Minnesota  Sports  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/andrewbr2020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Buller-Russ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Morgan has been the Carolina Panthers\u2018 general manager for two draft processes. The 2026 NFL Draft will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-867405","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\/116411861549058821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867405","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=867405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}