You can’t fairly grade a draft until like 3 years after
But Brooks is definitely off to a bad start, XL has potential but needs work, the rest of the guys look pretty solid. Barrett turned into Mike Jack
Incomplete because if we should have learned anything after labeling Bryce a bust last year, we should give players time to develop and grow rather than assign an arbitrary letter to them.
C+
Wallace and Sanders were good pickups, but nothing much outside of that.
Legette is still a wait and see, same with Smith-Wade.
Have barely seen anything of Crumedy, so not sure there.
Brooks is already a bust. Sorry, but it’s true. Wasted pick.
Barrett was traded before the season. At least Mike Jackson was a good pickup.
D
B-. Three solid starters and a couple of rotational pieces is a good haul. Obv Brooks was disappointing but I don’t think anyone can be blamed for that, it was a freak occurrence.
The only pick I was not into and am still not into is Jonathan Brooks. Otherwise, several guys have a good chance to be quality players, and you really never know when it comes to guys drafted in rounds 4-7 until they’re three or four years in.
Keary Colbert and Kelvin Benjamin had great rookie year stats as wr’s.
Mushin Muhammad and Steve Smith had forgettable rookie years as wr’s.
Its all how they develop.
PS shoulda taken Keon
C.
Lagette is solid but he’s shown why he was pick 32 and we should’ve taken Ladd who’s amazing that a good chunk of this sub wanted.
Brooks is a risk whiff. It sucks he’s hurt. But he barely played football in college as a starter. Didn’t make it through the one season he did start. Tore his ACL. then did it again here. He may be done forever. Yes it was a risk/reward. But that isn’t what’s remembered. Look at the titans with Wilson and Farley. When a guy doesn’t show up he doesn’t show up. Also the evaluation of picking a Rb over our many other needs is questionable.
Wallace is a project. Give it about 2 more years until we find out what he is. He still has a lot of growing to do.
Sanders is solid. Needs to continued to grow and get better. But probably the best pick Morgan made.
Wade is a fine back up. We’ll see what he turns into. He’s probably just a back up though.
Overall Morgan did a decent job. Left a ton of meat on the bones though. When you compare his class to say the chargers who had one of the best classes. Denver who had a very good class. The commies who had a good class. The eagles and ravens who had good classes. It’s very hard to give Morgan more than a C especially with that Brookes whiff.
As of right now in this current moment it’s a C at best.
Legette was never this drop happy in college so you can’t hold it against Morgan that he now is.
Sanders has been alright when given a chance.
Brooks was a stupid pick no matter what way you slice it. The rest have been “warm bodies” so far when they’ve played.
The best thing he’s done in the draft process is his UDFA signing of Coker at Canales request lol.
F. One of the worst drafts I can remember. They could all end up being off this roster in 2-3 years.
Especially when you see literally every other team having impactful rookies. Our only impactful rookie was one that we did not even draft. Every pick we made was the wrong player at that position.
Xavier Legette has not been clicking with Bryce. I understand it was only his rookie year… but I watched him drop WAY too many balls placed right in his hands for my liking
D
We keep prioritizing athletic scores over more proven players and it hurt us bad. We overreached on XL with the obvious pick of Ladd there.
Honestly would been better just picking the consensus player.
Am I the only one who’s not giving up on XL? I genuinely think the dude is going to be something special come next year. .
Fits our culture and has shown the ability to make big catches. Yes, I’m as mad as everybody else about the drops, but still have hope.
C.
Legette is still raw and has not been clutch, brooks lasted a handful of snaps before re-injury, sanders still needs a lot of development and Wallace could become a solid starter down the line. The trade up for legette is/was such a dumb move to me all to ensure you get a 5th year option on a guy who only had 1 real statistical year as a wr, and wasn’t in danger of being drafted before you. We should have taken Coleman or McConkey there. Wasn’t crazy about the brooks pick either, coming off a torn ACL in round 2 was a stretch and so far hasn’t panned out. All these people saying he’s killed it and laser eyes. He’s done ok-ish with only 1 year sample size to judge on. Let’s not forget we also traded away donte Jackson for diontae Johnson and that was a huge whiff.
XL gotta limit the drops
C- I was bummed when we didn’t take Ladd McConkey. I would be a bigger fan of XL if he could just catch half the passes he drops.
I mean, it’s one year so obligatory Too Soon To Tell, butttttt:
XL – Hit, needs to work on drops though
Brooks – Seems like a miss, purely because he re-tore the same ACL that he tore a year ago and it’s gonna be hard to come back from that for a running back whose calling card was speed
Wallace – Seems to be a hit, was thrust into the Mike spot as a rookie and did a good job getting the plays in. I can definitely see him developing into a leader on the Defense
JT – Hit, we have a legitimately explosive Pass Catching TE again
Chau Smith-Wade – Unclear, leaning towards Hit. 5th rounder that can be a good, not great, starter from what I’ve seen.
Jaden Crumedy – How much do you really expect from a 6th rounder? Seems ok as a backup, but idk about much else, so is that a miss???
Michael Barrett – ~~He’s a Packer PS player, so that’s a miss.~~ We’ll go with Hit* with an asterisks cuz he was who we sent to Seattle to get Mike Jackson, who has been an absolute bright spot on our otherwise dreary Defense.
I’m not the biggest fan of evaluating draft classes until a few years after but it doesn’t look great. Maybe a C since I think Legette will turn out but the Brooks pick looked bad at the time and looks even worse now
Too early to tell
Morgan flipped our 7th rounder, Barrett, for Mike Jackson.
That worked out.
I said this at the time and I’ll say it now we should have gotten JPJ in the second. Brooks was a luxury pick.
B- C+
B-. Most of the players here at least showed flashes of potential. The big miss is Brooks
Should have drafted McConkey over Legette
It’s hard to say with Brooks injury but I see the vision
I mean.. it will improve but at this point it can’t be more than a C+
Probably a C-. Didn’t have a lot of capital so not mad with the results. I was more impressed with the UDFA and development of guys like Cade Mayes than this class so far
XL seems to have trouble doing the whole catching thing…
Like C+ honestly in terms of who we passed on. I think time will tell though to really know. XL may turn into a sure handed clutch machine. We don’t know. As for impact THIS SEASON, I feel C+ maybe B- is fair.
B- for now with potential for growth. Jatavion Sanders is gonna be a star and the steal of the draft
C. Only Wallace, XL, and sanders seem like they have a future with us. Brooks is sadly going to be an injury “what if”.
Not a good draft. I don’t remember the last time we had an above avg draft.
I’ll grade the entire rookie class plus Mike Jackson.
B.
I get XL and Brooks aren’t off to a great start but they’ve shown flashes. I’m willing to be very patient with Brooks because by all accounts he’s a hard worker and Chuba makes losing him hurt less.
Regardless a huge part of the reason the Panthers are in this hole is missing on day 2 and day 3 draft picks.
Trevin Wallace, Chau Smith-Wade, and JT Sanders have all been very solid contributors this year. Not to mention trading Barrett for Mike Jackson.
Not just that but even though they weren’t “drafted”, Dan Morgan should get a huge amount of credit for finding Jalen Coker and Demani Richardson.
I think in 3 years we can revisit this and it might be a A+.
C
The mid-late picks are fine and Coker’s been a nice UDFA. But we gotta start hitting on these r1/2 guys. Taking brooks coming off a torn ACL is kind of ridiculous. It wasn’t really a huge point of need and you have guys like Irving, Tracy, corum, Ray Davis, guerendo and a handful of other RBs drafted well after brooks who have had very productive seasons.
C
Because the jury is still out on every single one.
It isn’t necessarily a bad thing for a rookie, but out of an entire draft class you’d expect at least one of them to establish themselves by the end of their rookie season.
Really bummed with how XL has looked considering how badly I wanted us to draft him
Brooks was always high risk high reward
3 4 5 all look like solid NFL guys so far
I think Crumedy has been hurt since like OTAs
Legette is gonna be a beast he just needs time to develop.
C
B for Better than any of Fitterers
This is my grade on the draft at the end of year 1. Not year 3 or 4, year 1! Let’s hope they all improve greatly! Grade: D
XL – C – XL has shown flashes of big play abilities and has been ok as a number two this year. XL has drop issues and is a body catcher. If he can develop into a more refined user of his hands this can become a A graded pick, but now he’s raw.
Brooks – D – Not a fail cause we really have no idea what Brooks will be but being the first RB off the board and getting reinjured isn’t great. No one’s fault, just injury bug.
Trevon Wallace – B+ – For where he was drafted he produced well when playing.
JT Sanders – B – Mighty good receiver.
Smith Wade – B+ – Later pick that made some plays for us this season.
Crumedy and Barret, ngl not tracking these two.
Overall B
Legette-I’m neutral after year 1. There were a lot of near misses on deep shots to him this year, but he showed he can get separation down field. Thought he used his size well early in the season, but didn’t see it the majority of the time. We need him to be able to use his size to win contested catches going forward. The talent is there it just comes down to execution for him.
Brooks-stock is obviously down. Really liked the pick and what he could bring to the team. It feels like something happened with that knee post draft because they said they expected him back by training camp. Fact he tore his ACL again so quickly after returning makes me think his career may be short. Very unfortunate.
Wallace-stock up. They’ve looked worse with him no longer on the field. Thought his athleticism showed and think he can continue to grow into the position.
Sanders-stock up. Tight ends develop slower and I’m not reading too much into the drop in production since coming back from his injury.
None of the others have stood out to me. I do think you need to include UDFAs in this as one and obviously Coker’s impact has helped offset some of the disappointment with XL. I’m less confident in XL developing into a 1 after this year but I do feel they came out of this draft class with two contributors at WR.
I love the sanders pick in the 4th. He’s been solid.
Brooks was a very questionable pick. Looks even more questionable after extending Chuba, specifically in terms of a lack of long term planning. You don’t burn a high pick on a RB unless you plan on them starting.Especially a high second round pick. Outside of that, Morgan’s draft appears to be off to a much better start than any draft Scott Fitterer put together.
Also, Scott Fitterer is a football terrosrist.
I’m going to get crap for This but I absolutely HATED the brooks pick. I thought Trey Benson would have been a better pick and a good 1/2 with Chubba. I hope brooks can come back but doesn’t look great..
Not a GM but I think it depends on your willingness to be patient. Should they be judged for holding on to TMJ too?
B-
B, like 80% type B
A+
Still too early to judge but based on how this year went: D-
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You can’t fairly grade a draft until like 3 years after
But Brooks is definitely off to a bad start, XL has potential but needs work, the rest of the guys look pretty solid. Barrett turned into Mike Jack
Incomplete because if we should have learned anything after labeling Bryce a bust last year, we should give players time to develop and grow rather than assign an arbitrary letter to them.
C+
Wallace and Sanders were good pickups, but nothing much outside of that.
Legette is still a wait and see, same with Smith-Wade.
Have barely seen anything of Crumedy, so not sure there.
Brooks is already a bust. Sorry, but it’s true. Wasted pick.
Barrett was traded before the season. At least Mike Jackson was a good pickup.
D
B-. Three solid starters and a couple of rotational pieces is a good haul. Obv Brooks was disappointing but I don’t think anyone can be blamed for that, it was a freak occurrence.
The only pick I was not into and am still not into is Jonathan Brooks. Otherwise, several guys have a good chance to be quality players, and you really never know when it comes to guys drafted in rounds 4-7 until they’re three or four years in.
Keary Colbert and Kelvin Benjamin had great rookie year stats as wr’s.
Mushin Muhammad and Steve Smith had forgettable rookie years as wr’s.
Its all how they develop.
PS shoulda taken Keon
C.
Lagette is solid but he’s shown why he was pick 32 and we should’ve taken Ladd who’s amazing that a good chunk of this sub wanted.
Brooks is a risk whiff. It sucks he’s hurt. But he barely played football in college as a starter. Didn’t make it through the one season he did start. Tore his ACL. then did it again here. He may be done forever. Yes it was a risk/reward. But that isn’t what’s remembered. Look at the titans with Wilson and Farley. When a guy doesn’t show up he doesn’t show up. Also the evaluation of picking a Rb over our many other needs is questionable.
Wallace is a project. Give it about 2 more years until we find out what he is. He still has a lot of growing to do.
Sanders is solid. Needs to continued to grow and get better. But probably the best pick Morgan made.
Wade is a fine back up. We’ll see what he turns into. He’s probably just a back up though.
Overall Morgan did a decent job. Left a ton of meat on the bones though. When you compare his class to say the chargers who had one of the best classes. Denver who had a very good class. The commies who had a good class. The eagles and ravens who had good classes. It’s very hard to give Morgan more than a C especially with that Brookes whiff.
As of right now in this current moment it’s a C at best.
Legette was never this drop happy in college so you can’t hold it against Morgan that he now is.
Sanders has been alright when given a chance.
Brooks was a stupid pick no matter what way you slice it. The rest have been “warm bodies” so far when they’ve played.
The best thing he’s done in the draft process is his UDFA signing of Coker at Canales request lol.
F. One of the worst drafts I can remember. They could all end up being off this roster in 2-3 years.
Especially when you see literally every other team having impactful rookies. Our only impactful rookie was one that we did not even draft. Every pick we made was the wrong player at that position.
Xavier Legette has not been clicking with Bryce. I understand it was only his rookie year… but I watched him drop WAY too many balls placed right in his hands for my liking
D
We keep prioritizing athletic scores over more proven players and it hurt us bad. We overreached on XL with the obvious pick of Ladd there.
Honestly would been better just picking the consensus player.
Am I the only one who’s not giving up on XL? I genuinely think the dude is going to be something special come next year. .
Fits our culture and has shown the ability to make big catches. Yes, I’m as mad as everybody else about the drops, but still have hope.
C.
Legette is still raw and has not been clutch, brooks lasted a handful of snaps before re-injury, sanders still needs a lot of development and Wallace could become a solid starter down the line. The trade up for legette is/was such a dumb move to me all to ensure you get a 5th year option on a guy who only had 1 real statistical year as a wr, and wasn’t in danger of being drafted before you. We should have taken Coleman or McConkey there. Wasn’t crazy about the brooks pick either, coming off a torn ACL in round 2 was a stretch and so far hasn’t panned out. All these people saying he’s killed it and laser eyes. He’s done ok-ish with only 1 year sample size to judge on. Let’s not forget we also traded away donte Jackson for diontae Johnson and that was a huge whiff.
XL gotta limit the drops
C- I was bummed when we didn’t take Ladd McConkey. I would be a bigger fan of XL if he could just catch half the passes he drops.
I mean, it’s one year so obligatory Too Soon To Tell, butttttt:
XL – Hit, needs to work on drops though
Brooks – Seems like a miss, purely because he re-tore the same ACL that he tore a year ago and it’s gonna be hard to come back from that for a running back whose calling card was speed
Wallace – Seems to be a hit, was thrust into the Mike spot as a rookie and did a good job getting the plays in. I can definitely see him developing into a leader on the Defense
JT – Hit, we have a legitimately explosive Pass Catching TE again
Chau Smith-Wade – Unclear, leaning towards Hit. 5th rounder that can be a good, not great, starter from what I’ve seen.
Jaden Crumedy – How much do you really expect from a 6th rounder? Seems ok as a backup, but idk about much else, so is that a miss???
Michael Barrett – ~~He’s a Packer PS player, so that’s a miss.~~ We’ll go with Hit* with an asterisks cuz he was who we sent to Seattle to get Mike Jackson, who has been an absolute bright spot on our otherwise dreary Defense.
I’m not the biggest fan of evaluating draft classes until a few years after but it doesn’t look great. Maybe a C since I think Legette will turn out but the Brooks pick looked bad at the time and looks even worse now
Too early to tell
Morgan flipped our 7th rounder, Barrett, for Mike Jackson.
That worked out.
I said this at the time and I’ll say it now we should have gotten JPJ in the second. Brooks was a luxury pick.
B- C+
B-. Most of the players here at least showed flashes of potential. The big miss is Brooks
Should have drafted McConkey over Legette
It’s hard to say with Brooks injury but I see the vision
I mean.. it will improve but at this point it can’t be more than a C+
Probably a C-. Didn’t have a lot of capital so not mad with the results. I was more impressed with the UDFA and development of guys like Cade Mayes than this class so far
XL seems to have trouble doing the whole catching thing…
Like C+ honestly in terms of who we passed on. I think time will tell though to really know. XL may turn into a sure handed clutch machine. We don’t know. As for impact THIS SEASON, I feel C+ maybe B- is fair.
B- for now with potential for growth. Jatavion Sanders is gonna be a star and the steal of the draft
C. Only Wallace, XL, and sanders seem like they have a future with us. Brooks is sadly going to be an injury “what if”.
Not a good draft. I don’t remember the last time we had an above avg draft.
I’ll grade the entire rookie class plus Mike Jackson.
B.
I get XL and Brooks aren’t off to a great start but they’ve shown flashes. I’m willing to be very patient with Brooks because by all accounts he’s a hard worker and Chuba makes losing him hurt less.
Regardless a huge part of the reason the Panthers are in this hole is missing on day 2 and day 3 draft picks.
Trevin Wallace, Chau Smith-Wade, and JT Sanders have all been very solid contributors this year. Not to mention trading Barrett for Mike Jackson.
Not just that but even though they weren’t “drafted”, Dan Morgan should get a huge amount of credit for finding Jalen Coker and Demani Richardson.
I think in 3 years we can revisit this and it might be a A+.
C
The mid-late picks are fine and Coker’s been a nice UDFA. But we gotta start hitting on these r1/2 guys. Taking brooks coming off a torn ACL is kind of ridiculous. It wasn’t really a huge point of need and you have guys like Irving, Tracy, corum, Ray Davis, guerendo and a handful of other RBs drafted well after brooks who have had very productive seasons.
C
Because the jury is still out on every single one.
It isn’t necessarily a bad thing for a rookie, but out of an entire draft class you’d expect at least one of them to establish themselves by the end of their rookie season.
Really bummed with how XL has looked considering how badly I wanted us to draft him
Brooks was always high risk high reward
3 4 5 all look like solid NFL guys so far
I think Crumedy has been hurt since like OTAs
Legette is gonna be a beast he just needs time to develop.
C
B for Better than any of Fitterers
This is my grade on the draft at the end of year 1. Not year 3 or 4, year 1! Let’s hope they all improve greatly! Grade: D
XL – C – XL has shown flashes of big play abilities and has been ok as a number two this year. XL has drop issues and is a body catcher. If he can develop into a more refined user of his hands this can become a A graded pick, but now he’s raw.
Brooks – D – Not a fail cause we really have no idea what Brooks will be but being the first RB off the board and getting reinjured isn’t great. No one’s fault, just injury bug.
Trevon Wallace – B+ – For where he was drafted he produced well when playing.
JT Sanders – B – Mighty good receiver.
Smith Wade – B+ – Later pick that made some plays for us this season.
Crumedy and Barret, ngl not tracking these two.
Overall B
Legette-I’m neutral after year 1. There were a lot of near misses on deep shots to him this year, but he showed he can get separation down field. Thought he used his size well early in the season, but didn’t see it the majority of the time. We need him to be able to use his size to win contested catches going forward. The talent is there it just comes down to execution for him.
Brooks-stock is obviously down. Really liked the pick and what he could bring to the team. It feels like something happened with that knee post draft because they said they expected him back by training camp. Fact he tore his ACL again so quickly after returning makes me think his career may be short. Very unfortunate.
Wallace-stock up. They’ve looked worse with him no longer on the field. Thought his athleticism showed and think he can continue to grow into the position.
Sanders-stock up. Tight ends develop slower and I’m not reading too much into the drop in production since coming back from his injury.
None of the others have stood out to me. I do think you need to include UDFAs in this as one and obviously Coker’s impact has helped offset some of the disappointment with XL. I’m less confident in XL developing into a 1 after this year but I do feel they came out of this draft class with two contributors at WR.
I love the sanders pick in the 4th. He’s been solid.
Brooks was a very questionable pick. Looks even more questionable after extending Chuba, specifically in terms of a lack of long term planning. You don’t burn a high pick on a RB unless you plan on them starting.Especially a high second round pick. Outside of that, Morgan’s draft appears to be off to a much better start than any draft Scott Fitterer put together.
Also, Scott Fitterer is a football terrosrist.
I’m going to get crap for This but I absolutely HATED the brooks pick. I thought Trey Benson would have been a better pick and a good 1/2 with Chubba. I hope brooks can come back but doesn’t look great..
Not a GM but I think it depends on your willingness to be patient. Should they be judged for holding on to TMJ too?
B-
B, like 80% type B
A+
Still too early to judge but based on how this year went: D-
3 out of the topn4 are hits.