The Carolina Panthers came into the 2022 NFL draft with their hands tied. Without any picks in the second or third rounds, and pretty glaring needs at a few pretty important positions, expectations had to have been set relatively low for what the braintrust could do.
Well, they untied their hands and somehow wound up with one of the most impressive draft classes of the event. Or, at least that’s what they did according to NFL.com editors Gennaro Filice and Dan Parr.
Filice and Parr ranked the Panthers’ haul as their ninth-best overall, crediting the team’s calculated roll of the dice on high-end athletic traits.
