{"id":990565,"date":"2026-09-03T05:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/990565\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T05:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:34:07","slug":"carolina-panthers-rb-jonathon-brooks-on-track-for-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/990565\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers RB Jonathon Brooks on track for Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Carolina Panthers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Carolina Panthers&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> RB Jonathon Brooks (undisclosed) is expected to be available for the Week 1 game even though he has missed some practice time this week because of soreness, according to head coach Dave Canales.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:SOURCE: Mike Kaye - ESPN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;SOURCE: Mike Kaye - ESPN&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/49805489\/panthers-rb-jonathon-brooks-coach-optimistic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">SOURCE: Mike Kaye &#8211; ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why It Matters: Brooks will not start this season but should still receive a solid role in the offense and can also be part of the passing game. He can be a No. 3 running back or flex option most weeks if he can stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Carolina Panthers RB Jonathon Brooks on track for Week 1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Carolina Panthers RB Jonathon Brooks on track for Week 1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/fantasy\/player-updates\/2026\/09\/02\/fantasy-rb-jonathon-brooks-week-1-outlook\/91584115007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers RB Jonathon Brooks on track for Week 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers RB Jonathon Brooks (undisclosed) is expected to be available for the Week 1 game even though&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":990566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[3050,235,260,2567,3838,7,8811,6,236,18879],"class_list":["post-990565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-brooks","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-dave-canales","tag-football","tag-jonathon-brooks","tag-nfl","tag-panthers","tag-week-1"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117205484417029888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990565","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=990565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/990566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}