If this were a baseball game, Carolina Panthers head coach Matt Rhule would be down 0-2 in the count.
Strike one came with last year’s free-agent signing of Teddy Bridgewater, who flopped in his lone season with the organization in 2020. Then came strike two after the Sam Darnold trade proved worthless—reckless even—as the team is now left without second and fourth-round picks and a $18.5 million paper weight on the depth chart.
That has left the Panthers, at least according to Pro Football Focus, as the third-neediest team at the quarterback position heading into the offseason.
