CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Josh Norman is back in Carolina, and the personality splash he has made this week has already made the Panthers a more entertaining team.
The bigger question, though, is this: Can 35-year-old Josh Norman really help the Panthers win Sunday at Tampa Bay?
The Panthers hope so. The tentative plan isn’t to start Norman, but instead to activate him from the practice squad later this week and then let him play a specific number of plays off the bench at outside cornerback against his old foe Tom Brady. This is all necessary because now Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn has a broken wrist and will definitely miss Sunday’s game and perhaps the regular-season finale at New Orleans, too.
