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• Panthers left tackle Ikem Ekwonu undergoes emergency appendectomy, status uncertain for Week 1 vs. Jaguars

The Panthers could be without one of their top offensive linemen when the season begins...2025
• NFL 2022 re-draft after option decisions show keepers and busts

Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images Let’s re-draft the 2022 NFL Draft now that fifth-year option decisions have been made. The 2022 NFL Draft was only a few years ago, but Thursday marks the deadline for teams to declare whether they will pick up the 5th year option on players drafted in the first round. It’s a chance to look back at who has become elite since that class, who is struggling...2025
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• The Giants botched the 2022 NFL Draft so spectacularly when it could have made them elite

Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images The Giants’ 2022 NFL Draft should have made them elite. Instead it’s just sad. Thursday is the NFL deadline for teams to formally pick up the 5th year option on their first round rookies from the 2022 draft, and while it was just three years ago it really underscores just how monumentally the New York Giants screwed this one up. The Giants will be one of two...2025
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• 2025 NFL Mock Draft: Carolina Panthers choose cornerback

Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images With the 8th overall pick in the 2025 Bleeding Green Nation community mock draft, Carolina Panthers GM 89Tremaine selects ... Will Johnson, CB, Michigan Before making the pick, let’s look at how Carolina fared in both traditional and efficiency stats over the past two seasons. It must have been painful to be a Panthers fan over the ...2025
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• Tyler Smith serves as a reminder that the Cowboys can be very good at landing first round studs

Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Tyler Smith is an important reminder that the Cowboys can surprise us all. It’s already February and before we know it, the 2025 NFL Draft will be upon us. This is the moment the Dallas Cowboys will do their heavy lifting when it comes to building the roster. It’s no secret they value the draft process immensely like any team should, but hitting on picks b...2025
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• Final score: Chiefs survive Panthers with 30-27 win at the buzzer

Photo by Matt Kelley/Getty Images Kansas City advanced to 10-1 on a last-second kick set up by a crucial run from Patrick Mahomes. The Kansas City Chiefs advanced to 10-1 with a 30-27 victory over the Carolina Panthers on Sunday afternoon, getting back on track after their disappointing Week 11 loss to the Buffalo Bills — and continuing toward their 2024 goal: a third straight Super Bowl ...2024
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• NFL 2022 re-draft after option decisions show keepers and busts
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• 2025 NFL Mock Draft: Carolina Panthers choose cornerback
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• Final score: Chiefs survive Panthers with 30-27 win at the buzzer
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• Chiefs-Panthers final injury report: Kansas City will hold back Pacheco, Omenihu

Photo by Kara Durrette/Getty Images On Sunday, Kansas City is on the road to play its Week 12 game in Carolina. Each practice day of the season, the Kansas City Chiefs release an official injury report leading up to the next game. This week, Kansas City goes back on the road to play the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte. Kickoff will be at noon (Arrowhead Time) on Sunday. Here is the Chief...2024
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• Chiefs-Panthers Thursday injury report: Pacheco, Omenihu remain limited

Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images On Sunday, Kansas City is on the road to play its Week 12 game in Carolina. Each practice day of the season, the Kansas City Chiefs release an official injury report leading up to the next game. This week, Kansas City goes back on the road to play the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte. Kickoff will be at noon (Arrowhead Time) on Sunday. Here is the Chief...2024
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• Chiefs-Panthers Wednesday injury report: Pacheco, Omenihu remain limited

Photo by Kara Durrette/Getty Images On Sunday, Kansas City is on the road to play its Week 12 game in Carolina. Each practice day of the season, the Kansas City Chiefs release an official injury report leading up to the next game. This week, Kansas City goes back on the road to play the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte. Kickoff will be at noon (Arrowhead Time) on Sunday. Here is the Chief...2024
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• Giants-Panthers inactives, injury updates: Jason Pinnock OUT for Giants

Giants will be without Pinnock and Darius Slayton New York Giants starting safety Jason Pinnock will not play Sunday morning when the Giants face the Carolina Panthers in Munich, Germany. Pinnock, a fourth-year player, is fourth on the Giants in tackles with 43 and sacks with 3.0. The Giants will be without starting wide receiver Darius Slayton (concussion) and backup wide receiver/special teamer ...2024
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• Giants news, 11/9: Jason Pinnock, Malik Nabers, Brian Burns, more headlines

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports New York Giants news for Saturday Good morning, New York Giants fans! From Big Blue View Giants-Panthers crossover preview podcast: Bryce Young, winning vs. draft stock, Jonathon Brooks, more Giants injury report: Jason Pinnock questionable vs. Panthers Giants vs. Panthers, Week 10 staff picks: BBV staff confident in Giants this week Takeaways from coordinato...2024
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• Giants news, 11/7: Darius Slayton won’t make Germany trip, Jakob Johnson, Graham Gano, more headlines

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports New York Giants news for Friday Good morning, New York Giants fans! From Big Blue View Giants injury news: Darius Slayton unlikely to travel to Germany Giants-Panthers: When New York has the ball Giants vs. Panthers: What to expect when Carolina has the ball Survey: Did the Giants make the right choice at the trade deadline? Giants-Panthers 2024, Week 10: Ever...2024
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• Final Saints vs. Panthers injury report

Brett Davis-Imagn Images New Orleans listed four players out for Sunday. The New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers have wrapped up their final practices ahead of their week nine matchup in Carolina. The Saints have ruled out four players including cornerbacks Marshon Lattimore and Kool-Aid McKinstry. New Orleans also listed cornerback Rico Payton as questionable as he missed all week of...2024
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"Pick 6 - Ikem Ekwonu Pick 7 - Evan Neal Pick 9 - Charles Cross Pick 15 - Kenyon Green Pick 17 - Zion Johnson Pick 19 - Trevor Penning Pick 24 - Tyler Smith Looking back, not only did the Cowboys luck out with the best offensive lineman from this draft class, but they scored one of the best players in the entire draft."

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"A facemask penalty by Ikem Ekwonu dug them into a first-and-25 at midfield."

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"Panthers' Frank Reich has 'a lot of confidence' in Ikem Ekwonu protecting Bryce Young despite rough preseason"

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"NFL Draft analysis for Ikem Ekwonu, OL, NC State"

• NFL 2022 re-draft after option decisions show keepers and busts
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• The Giants botched the 2022 NFL Draft so spectacularly when it could have made them elite
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• 2025 NFL Mock Draft: Carolina Panthers choose cornerback
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• Tyler Smith serves as a reminder that the Cowboys can be very good at landing first round studs
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• Chiefs-Panthers Wednesday injury report: Pacheco, Omenihu remain limited
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• The Giants’ Daniel Jones era cost them a much brighter future

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images The Giants’ disastrous Daniel Jones era is even more painful because of what could have been Daniel Jones is the problem everyone but the New York Giants saw coming. Now in his sixth season, Jones is a bad quarterback masquerading as an elite one, purely by virtue of the desperate 4-year, $160M contract the Giants gave him in 2023. Now at 2-8, with fans wat...2024
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• Giants news, 11/9: Jason Pinnock, Malik Nabers, Brian Burns, more headlines
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• Giants vs. Panthers, Week 10 staff picks: BBV staff confident in Giants this week

Can the Giants take care of business in Munich? The New York Giants will take on the Carolina Panthers in Munich, Germany, as a part of the NFL’s international series this week. This is a battle between 2-7 teams who are searching for signs of growth in their team in the middle of disappointing seasons. The Panthers got a glimpse of what they’ve long hoped to see from Bryce Young last week agains...2024
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• Giants news, 11/7: Darius Slayton won’t make Germany trip, Jakob Johnson, Graham Gano, more headlines
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• Overreactions: Saints vs. Chargers

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images An offseason addition for New Orleans isn’t getting the respect he deserves due to high expectations. The New Orleans Saints fell to the Los Angeles Chargers 26-8 on Sunday afternoon in The City of Angels. The injury reinforcements weren’t enough, as the team extended their losing streak to six consecutive games following an impressive 2-0 start. The fan base...2024
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• NFL 2022 re-draft after option decisions show keepers and busts
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• 2025 NFL Mock Draft: Carolina Panthers choose cornerback
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• Final score: Chiefs survive Panthers with 30-27 win at the buzzer
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• The Giants’ Daniel Jones era cost them a much brighter future
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• Giants vs. Panthers, Week 10 staff picks: BBV staff confident in Giants this week
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• Overreactions: Saints vs. Chargers
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• Chargers-Panthers Game Recap: Dobbins, Johnston leads Bolts to 2-0 on road

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images J.K. Dobbins’ 131 rushing yards and Quentin Johnston’s two touchdowns helped spur the Chargers to a 26-3 victory on the road. For the second consecutive game, Justin Herbert fell short of 150 yards passing. It once again did not matter. The Chargers churned out 219 yards rushing behind the legs of J.K. Dobbins (131, one TD) and Gus Edwards (59) and the...2024
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• Charles Cross has not yet lived up to top-10 draft pick expectations

Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports Charles Cross formed a fantastic duo with Abe Lucas in his rookie year. He needs to take another step in his development in Year 3 and this could be crucial. The Seattle Seahawks hadn’t selected in the top 10 since the 2010 draft, when John Schneider draft Russell Okung. That streak ended in 2022 when the team selected Mississippi State left tackle Charles Cr...2024
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• Carolina Panthers had NFL’s most sneaky-good offseason

Photo by John Byrum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Panthers had the NFL’s most underrated offseason By every metric you want to measure, the Carolina Panthers’ 2023 season was an unmitigated disaster. They had the worst record in the NFL, yet nothing to show for it because they traded their first round pick this year to the Chicago Bears for rookie QB Bryce Young. Young’s rookie yea...2024
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• Tyler Smith serves as a reminder that the Cowboys can be very good at landing first round studs
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• Final score: Chiefs survive Panthers with 30-27 win at the buzzer
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• The Giants’ Daniel Jones era cost them a much brighter future
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• Giants news, 11/7: Darius Slayton won’t make Germany trip, Jakob Johnson, Graham Gano, more headlines
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• Chargers-Panthers Game Recap: Dobbins, Johnston leads Bolts to 2-0 on road
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• Big Blue View mailbag: Trades, John Mara, Brian Burns, more

The mail’s here! Clayton Harding asks: I’d like your opinion on a few trade possibilities I’ve come up with. As I’ve posted before, I think our deepest position group, by far, is WR. So, if we’re gonna trade away a player, it’d probably have to come from there. And Slayton is my candidate. I think he’d be a solid, affordable WR2/3 on most teams, and I think we can survive losing him. And the posit...2024
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• Charles Cross has not yet lived up to top-10 draft pick expectations
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• Jaguars' Thursday Presser: "find a way just to win a game."

Photo by Courtney Culbreath/Getty Images Jaguars HC Doug Pederson addresses the media before the team's New Year's Eve matchup against the Panthers. Following their 33-12 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Jacksonville Jaguars are now entering a must-win scenario this Sunday in their matchup versus the Carolina Panther. Jaguars’ Head Coach Doug Pederson met with the press on Thursday to...2023
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• Colts 2nd-year OT Bernhard Raimann only continuing breakout campaign

Photo by John Byrum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colts’ offensive tackle Bernhard Raimann has only gotten better since entering the league—particularly in pass blocking. Indianapolis Colts 2nd-year offensive tackle Bernhard Raimann has only gotten better since entering the league last year—and it’s his pass protection that’s really stood out so far this season: Pressure rate allowed...2023
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• Panthers vs. Dolphins preview Week 6 2023: Bryce Young, injuries, and more as Carolina looks to build

Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images The Miami Dolphins welcome the Carolina Panthers to south Florida for Week 6. We get a behind enemy lines look at the Panthers with some help from Cat Scratch Reader. The Miami Dolphins look to continue a hot start to the 2023 season as they welcome the Carolina Panthers into Hard Rock Stadium for a Week 6 game. The Dolphins are 4-1 and in first place in t...2023
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• 2022 NFL Draft grades: Panthers pick Ikem Ekwonu at No. 6 overall, bolstering O-line with NC State star
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• Panthers' Frank Reich has 'a lot of confidence' in Ikem Ekwonu protecting Bryce Young despite rough preseason

The LT has registered a pass-blocking grade of 17 through two preseason games...2023
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• Re-draft of the 2022 NFL Draft has Cowboys Tyler Smith as first offensive lineman taken
Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images The Cowboys look like geniuses not even one year later. They say hindsight is 20/20. If we could make decisions about the past based on what we know in the present, then we would obviously never make any sort of mistakes. This lesson tends to ring particularly true when we talk about the NFL Draft. If we had known then what we know now, the Cowboys would ...2023
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• 'Nothing ever takes his joy': Why NFL defenders will soon fear potential No. 1 pick Ikem Ekwonu

Four years ago, Ikem Ekwonu wasn't a burgeoning NFL-level talent. He was just a big kid with a big personality and a twin brother with a far bigger recruiting pedigree....2022
• Panthers first-round pick Ikem Ekwonu on QB battle: 'Competition brings best out of everybody'
Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, and (maybe) Matt Corral will battle for the starting job...2022
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• Panthers 1st-rounder Ekwonu named starting LT

Ikem Ekwonu opened the Carolina Panthers' joint practice against New England as the starter over 2021 third-round pick Brady Christensen, and coach Matt Rhule said, "That's where we are moving forward."...2022
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• Panthers rookies celebrate Halloween at costume show with children's hospital patients

Ikem Ekwonu, Cade Mays and other Panthers rookies appeared at the "Halloween Spooktacular" event with Levine Children's Hospital patients in Charlotte on Tuesday....2022
• Detroit Lions vs. Carolina Panthers preview, prediction: On Paper

Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports Our statistical breakdown and prediction for the Week 5 matchup between the Detroit Lions and Carolina Panthers. The Detroit Lions enter unfamiliar territory this week as 10-point favorites over the Carolina Panthers, the biggest line in their favor since 2017. With it being so early in the season, it can be a scary-looking line; we don’t really know the true ...2023
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• Giants news, 11/9: Jason Pinnock, Malik Nabers, Brian Burns, more headlines
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• Will Anderson's Pressure Principles: Combine Preview
Will Anderson's Pressure Principles: Combine Preview Mike Tanier 27 Feb 2023, 09:22am Alabama Crimson Tide edge rusher Will Anderson recorded 81 pass pressures two seasons ago in 2021. That was the second-highest figure in the Sports Info Solutions database, dating back to 2016. If you have ever sifted through college football statistics, you recognize how remark...2023
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• Final score: Chiefs survive Panthers with 30-27 win at the buzzer
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• Chiefs-Panthers Thursday injury report: Pacheco, Omenihu remain limited
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• Chiefs-Panthers Wednesday injury report: Pacheco, Omenihu remain limited
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• The Giants’ Daniel Jones era cost them a much brighter future
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• Giants-Panthers inactives, injury updates: Jason Pinnock OUT for Giants
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• Giants news, 11/9: Jason Pinnock, Malik Nabers, Brian Burns, more headlines
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• Giants vs. Panthers, Week 10 staff picks: BBV staff confident in Giants this week
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• Giants news, 11/7: Darius Slayton won’t make Germany trip, Jakob Johnson, Graham Gano, more headlines
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• Final score: Chiefs survive Panthers with 30-27 win at the buzzer
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• Giants news, 5/31: Recap of OTA 5, Darius Slayton, Deonte Banks, more headlines

Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images New York Giants news for Friday Good morning, New York Giants fans! From Big Blue View OTA No. 5 practice report: Wide receivers get tutelage from Steve Smith Sr. Darius Slayton has incentives added to contract by New York Giants With Aaron Donald retired, could the Giants have the best defensive tackle in football? Giants’ Deonte Banks will be asked to as...2024
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• 2025 NFL Mock Draft: Potential first-round options next year

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Never too early to look ahead! Sheesh. The 2024 NFL Draft is in the books. Looking forward, next year’s class figures to have more high-end defensive prospects and quite a few intriguing quarterbacks. While a lot will change in a year, here are names that will be buzzing headed into the early months of college football. 1) Carolina Panthers - Will Campbel...2024
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• Five Giants with the most to prove over the final five games

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images The stakes are high for these players, but for different reasons The New York Giants’ bye week came late this year, but the good thing is that it arrives close enough to the end of the season for obvious questions to have arisen about the roster yet with enough games remaining to get some answers. Yes, the Giants are still mathematically in the hunt for a pla...2023
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• Can looking back at draft history help the Rams?
Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Or should they trade all their picks for a first round star? Over in the Fanpost section recently, an interesting philosophical proposition was offered. Should the Los Angeles Rams trade all their 2023 draft picks and move up to select a great player, in this case a tight end? Like all good philosophical questions, it brings not a necessarily an objective answer,...2023
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• Re-draft of the 2022 NFL Draft has Cowboys Tyler Smith as first offensive lineman taken
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