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Draft Selections
Payton Wilson Head Shot
PICK: 49 RND: 2 (CAR)
Payton Wilson
LB North Carolina State
Sedrick Van Pran Head Shot
PICK: 65 RND: 3 (CAR)
Sedrick Van Pran
C Georgia
Brenden Rice Head Shot
PICK: 101 RND: 4 (CAR)
Brenden Rice
WR USC
DeWayne Carter Head Shot
PICK: 105 RND: 4 (CAR)
DeWayne Carter
DT Duke
Will Shipley Head Shot
PICK: 109 RND: 4 (CAR)
Will Shipley
RB Clemson
Luke McCaffrey Head Shot
PICK: 142 RND: 5 (CAR)
Luke McCaffrey
WR Rice
Chau Smith-Wade Head Shot
PICK: 149 RND: 5 (CAR)
Chau Smith-Wade
CB Washington State
Layden Robinson Head Shot
PICK: 166 RND: 5 (CAR)
Layden Robinson
OG Texas A&M
Tatum Bethune Head Shot
PICK: 240 RND: 7 (CAR)
Tatum Bethune
LB Florida State
Draft Picks Received
Payton Wilson Head Shot
PICK: 49 RND: 2 (CIN)
Payton Wilson
LB North Carolina State
DeWayne Carter Head Shot
PICK: 105 RND: 4 (LAC)
DeWayne Carter
DT Duke
Will Shipley Head Shot
PICK: 109 RND: 4 (ATL)
Will Shipley
RB Clemson
Chau Smith-Wade Head Shot
PICK: 149 RND: 5 (CIN)
Chau Smith-Wade
CB Washington State
No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 1 (LAC)
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No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 3 (CIN)
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No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 7 (CIN)
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Draft Picks Traded
Ja'Tavion Sanders Head Shot
PICK: 33 RND: 2 (LAC)
Ja'Tavion Sanders
TE Texas
Graham Barton Head Shot
PICK: 39 RND: 2 (ATL)
Graham Barton
OT Duke
Players Gained
Head Shot
Joey Bosa
EDGE
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Joseph Ossai
EDGE
Draft Grade — Panthers
Overall B+
ValueB- NeedB+ TradesB FutureA
The Panthers let Smith-Wade fall into their laps, and walked away with a B+.

Thirty-one other rooms let Chau Smith-Wade slide, and the Panthers were the ones holding the card at pick 149. Highway robbery.

For all the activity, edge rusher went untouched, which is hard to explain. Every board in the league had Robinson lower, and that gap is the story. Wide receiver was the priority and it is no longer a question, which is most of the job.

Solid rather than spectacular, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Pick Analysis
Pick49 Rnd2 Payton Wilson
They liked Payton Wilson enough to skip the value, taking him in the Round 2 slot. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Pick65 Rnd3 Sedrick Van Pran
A market-rate offensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Sedrick Van Pran. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Pick101 Rnd4 Brenden Rice
Brenden Rice at No. 101 is a sensible buy, a touch better than market for the wide receiver. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick105 Rnd4 DeWayne Carter
A reasonable price with a little left over, DeWayne Carter in pick No. 105. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
Pick109 Rnd4 Will Shipley
Will Shipley in slot 109 is fair value, right on his grade. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Pick142 Rnd5 Luke McCaffrey
Luke McCaffrey in Round 5, Pick 6 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Pick149 Rnd5 Chau Smith-Wade
They robbed the room for Chau Smith-Wade here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Pick166 Rnd5 Layden Robinson
Layden Robinson at the 166th pick is a conviction pick that outran the value. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Pick240 Rnd7 Tatum Bethune
A slide stopped in No. 240, with Tatum Bethune worth more than the price. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.