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Draft Selections
James Pearce Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 8 RND: 1 (CAR)
James Pearce Jr.
DE-EDGE Tennessee
Darien Porter Head Shot
PICK: 57 RND: 2 (CAR)
Darien Porter
CB Iowa State
Jayden Higgins Head Shot
PICK: 74 RND: 3 (CAR)
Jayden Higgins
WR Iowa State
Shemar Turner Head Shot
PICK: 110 RND: 4 (CAR)
Shemar Turner
DL Texas A&M
Jake Majors Head Shot
PICK: 113 RND: 4 (CAR)
Jake Majors
C Texas
Carson Schwesinger Head Shot
PICK: 141 RND: 5 (CAR)
Carson Schwesinger
LB UCLA
Oronde Gadsden II Head Shot
PICK: 147 RND: 5 (CAR)
Oronde Gadsden II
TE Syracuse
Robert Spears-Jennings Head Shot
PICK: 164 RND: 5 (CAR)
Robert Spears-Jennings
S Oklahoma
Ty Hamilton Head Shot
PICK: 229 RND: 7 (CAR)
Ty Hamilton
DT Ohio State
Draft Grade — Panthers
Overall B-
ValueB- NeedB+ TradesB- FutureB-
Larceny in the 141st pick lands the Panthers a B-, Schwesinger and all.

The board owed the Panthers one, and it paid up: Carson Schwesinger, the No. 87 name on the board, sitting there at No. 141 like a gift left on the doorstep. Good, not great, and the B- says as much.

If Porter pans out, nobody remembers the price. If not, this is the pick they hear about. A whole weekend of picks and quarterback is somehow still a want.

On the needs board they went 7 of 9, with wide receiver the one that mattered most. The trenches got the money picks, top to bottom.

In sum, a sensible class that nudges the roster the right way.

Pick Analysis
Pick8 Rnd1 James Pearce Jr.
A market-rate edge rusher, with the board and the slot shaking hands on James Pearce Jr.. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick57 Rnd2 Darien Porter
A big swing on Darien Porter at the Round 2 slot, well ahead of any board in the building. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Pick74 Rnd3 Jayden Higgins
Jayden Higgins in slot 74 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick110 Rnd4 Shemar Turner
Shemar Turner in pick 110 is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Pick113 Rnd4 Jake Majors
A tidy little value on Jake Majors in pick No. 113, a step better than break-even. A need, and now a little less of one.
Pick141 Rnd5 Carson Schwesinger
A linebacker of that caliber at the 141st pick is the definition of value, full stop. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick147 Rnd5 Oronde Gadsden II
A clean, defensible pick in Round 5, Pick 8 with a little surplus value in Oronde Gadsden II. It fills a real need, too.
Pick164 Rnd5 Robert Spears-Jennings
Robert Spears-Jennings in the 164th overall pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Pick229 Rnd7 Ty Hamilton
They went early on Ty Hamilton in pick No. 229, and the value did not follow. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.