Jeremy Chinn’s time with the Carolina Panthers was very much up following the 2023 season. But now, his clock has been reset—and it may start ticking with a bang.
Chris Trapasso of CBS Sports recently named four veterans who could see a resurgence here in 2024. He lists Chinn, who once showed an exciting amount of promise very early on in his career:
Just a few years ago, Chinn was a prototype. A new-age model for what teams wanted and needed at the safety position. At 6-foot-3 and 221 pounds with 4.45 speed and elite explosiveness traits, Chinn proved capable of doing it all in the back seven. Covering tight ends in man, playing linebacker and halting inside and outside runs, blitzing. He was tremendous as a rookie in 2020, finishing second in Defensive Rookie of the Year voting on the heels of a 117-tackle, five pass-breakup, two-return score season.
The 2020 second-round pick was an iron man for Carolina in his first three seasons—playing in 97 percent of the team’s defensive snaps as a rookie, 98.9 percent in 2021 and 90.7 percent in 2022. But that presence decreased mightily in 2023 under new defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero, who used the versatile defender on just 38.7 percent of his unit’s looks.
But Chinn has signed away to a coach who may know precisely what to do with his talents. Trapasso continues:
And now he’s part of the Dan Quinn Takeover in Washington under new ownership. And let’s just say Quinn has experience coaching productive safeties in his past, particularly safety-linebacker hybrids like Kam Chancellor, Keanu Neal, and most recently Donovan Wilson and Markquese Bell in Dallas.
Godspeed, Jeremy!
