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Laiatu Latu Head Shot
PICK: 33 RND: 2 (CAR)
Laiatu Latu
DL-EDGE UCLA
Jared Verse Head Shot
PICK: 39 RND: 2 (CAR)
Jared Verse
DE-EDGE Florida State
Ja'Tavion Sanders Head Shot
PICK: 65 RND: 3 (CAR)
Ja'Tavion Sanders
TE Texas
Ja'Lynn Polk Head Shot
PICK: 101 RND: 4 (CAR)
Ja'Lynn Polk
WR Washington
Sataoa Laumea Head Shot
PICK: 142 RND: 5 (CAR)
Sataoa Laumea
OT Utah
Kalen King Head Shot
PICK: 166 RND: 5 (CAR)
Kalen King
CB Penn State
Steele Chambers Head Shot
PICK: 240 RND: 7 (CAR)
Steele Chambers
LB Ohio State
Draft Grade — Panthers
Overall B
ValueA NeedB+ TradesB- FutureB-
The Panthers robbed the room for Chambers. Final grade: B.

The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Steele Chambers, the 240th pick, roughly 41 picks past where he belonged. Good, not great, and the B says as much.

They will regret leaving safety for another day if the season turns on it. They left with wide receiver solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

Add it up and it is a good, unfussy class.

Pick Analysis
Pick33 Rnd2 Laiatu Latu
They will replay Laiatu Latu at the 33rd overall pick for years; that is how good the value is. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick39 Rnd2 Jared Verse
A edge rusher of that caliber at the 39th pick is the definition of value, full stop. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Pick65 Rnd3 Ja'Tavion Sanders
Steal is underselling it; Ja'Tavion Sanders at pick No. 65 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Pick101 Rnd4 Ja'Lynn Polk
Somehow Ja'Lynn Polk was still sitting there in pick 101, and they pounced on premier wide receiver value. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Pick142 Rnd5 Sataoa Laumea
Sataoa Laumea slipping to slot 142 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Pick166 Rnd5 Kalen King
They robbed the room for Kalen King here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Pick240 Rnd7 Steele Chambers
Taking Steele Chambers in the Round 7 slot is close to grand larceny; a linebacker that good had no business lasting this long. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.