Hey, so the Carolina Panthers did a thing this past week. And, as a result, some other things will look a bit different heading into the 2022 regular season.
Let’s try to figure out how different they’ll look in this—our pre-training camp predictions for the 53-man depth chart.
Offense:
Position | Starter | Depth | ||
QB | Baker Mayfield | Sam Darnold | Matt Corral | |
RB | Christian McCaffrey | Chuba Hubbard | D’Onta Foreman | |
WR | DJ Moore | Terrace Marshall Jr. | Brandon Zylstra | Andre Roberts |
WR | Robbie Anderson | Rashard Higgins | Shi Smith | |
TE | Ian Thomas | Colin Thompson | ||
TE | Tommy Tremble | |||
LT | Ikem Ekwonu | Cameron Erving | ||
LG | Brady Christensen | Michael Jordan | Dennis Daley | |
C | Bradley Bozeman | Pat Elflein | ||
RG | Austin Corbett | |||
RT | Taylor Moton |
Defense:
Position | Starter | Depth | |
DE | Brian Burns | Marquis Haynes Sr. | |
DT | Derrick Brown | Daviyon Nixon | |
DT | Matt Ioannidis | Bravvion Roy | Phil Hoskins |
DE | Yetur Gross-Matos | Amaré Barno | Darryl Johnson |
WLB | Shaq Thompson | Brandon Smith | |
MLB | Damien Wilson | Julian Stanford | |
SLB | Frankie Luvu | Cory Littleton | |
CB | Donte Jackson | CJ Henderson | Myles Hartsfield |
SS | Xavier Woods | Juston Burris | |
FS | Jeremy Chinn | Kenny Robinson | |
CB | Jaycee Horn | Keith Taylor Jr. |
Specialists:
Position | ||
K | Zane Gonzalez | |
P | Johnny Hekker | |
LS | JJ Jansen | |
KR | Andre Roberts | Chuba Hubbard |
PR | Andre Roberts | Shi Smith |