We are now less than three weeks old from the start of the NFL 2025 draft. (Yes, we are almost there, friends!)
So who make experts think the Carolina Panthers I will make with the eighth overall choice the first night?
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Here are the latest projections for the team’s selection in the first round. . .
USA today
Take: Walker milestone, LB / Edge, Georgia
Author:: Nate Davis
Take: This team really needs another manufacturer of difference on defense, and Walker could effectively connect a gap at Edge Rusher or as a second -ball secondary – and perhaps both if it were to be deployed by the coordinator Ejiro Evero in the optimal scenarios depending on the situation. But considering Jadeveon Clowney, 32, is the only player on this list who generated more than a dozen pressures in 2024 – and only 22 – Walker’s ability to go to the quarters could be his most necessary attribute here. Size (6-1, 243) is not among its sales arguments.
Nfl.com
Take: Tyler Warren, Te, Penn State
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Author:: Chad Reuter
Take: Bryce Young has made progress as a quarter-back from the panthers last season, and Warren is the best addition that the team can make on this slit to help keep the QB on the right track. The tight end of 6 feet 5 inches 1/2 and 256 pounds can the best seconds and safetys on short and intermediate routes with its size, but is also agile enough to test them at the bottom.
Espn
Take: Walker milestone, Edge / LB, Georgia
Author:: Field Yates
Take: The Panthers have made a series of Rusher investments on board in the past two years, but none has massively moved the needle. The Panthers – who granted the most sites per game (6.0) and tied for the third more bags (32) last season – could really meet their need in the top 10.
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Walker had 6.5 bags in 2024, even if he spent a lot of time patrolling in the middle of the field in the second ball. Carolina could deploy Walker in a hybrid role because he needs a boost in the secondary and the Rusher Edge.
Athletics
Take: Mykel Williams, Edge, Georgia
Author:: Bruce Feldman
Take: The second georgia player to present himself in the top 10, Williams was injured during the 2024 opening against Clemson and could not play much in the first half of last season. But he was back for a big match in Texas in October and gave UT crises, marking two bags. He had two other bags against the Longhorns in the game for the title of the dry. The 6-5, 260 pounds at 34 1/2 inch arms with a potential that makes coaches in D, dizzy.
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“It has been hit a lot this year, but when it was almost 100%, it is super nervous,” said a dry coach. “It’s a monster.”
He will increase a Caroline team who had the worst rush of the league passes.
“He is more the traditional defensive guy than Walker,” said a dry coach who was really impressed by the two Georgia players. “It can either be the second 3-4 outside or 4-3.
CBS Sports
Take: Mike Green, Edge, Marshall
Author:: Ryan Wilson
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Take: The old UVA transfer played the High School Lafayette in Williamsburg, Virginia, the same school that produced Lawrence Taylor. Green, who weighed 251 pounds at the senior Bowl, is incredibly explosive out of the shot, plays with surprising power and always uses her hands well to leave the blocks. He had the representative in 1 against 1 of the week at Mobile, and his band supports him.
Yahoo Sports
Take: Shemar Stewart, Edge, Texas A & M
Author: Charles McDonald
Take: Stewart production makes him a risk, but for a team that needs juice off the edge like the Panthers, his potential makes him a roller of intriguing dice at the top of the draft. Some teams will examine the construction of Stewart and its dashboard from 4.59 to 40 yards from the screening combination and will fall in love as soon as possible. According to Trumedia, the defense of the Panthers finished dead in percentage of pressure last season (25.2%). This may be the type of risk that the panthers are ready to take.
Professional football focus
Take: Walker milestone, Edge / LB, Georgia
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Author:: Josh Liskiewitz
Take: Walker is a physically and athletic player who provides the versatility of box presence as an out -of -ball second. Its anticipation and its Pass-Rush profile in its current form are lacking for a constant impact in the NFL. He must improve the way he approaches to precipitate the smuggler or his instincts outside the ball to make a top 5 selection due to age and potential.
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Take: Tetairoa mcmillan, wr, arizona
Author:: Brent Sobleski
Take: The Carolina Panthers took over a first round choice in the Large Xavier Legette recipient last year, but the weapons around the quarter-Arrière Bryce Young still require improvements.
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Tetairoa McMillan of Arizona gives the panthers a legitimate WR1, as a target of 6’4 “, which can create after capture, the work below or simply the defensive backs of the body.
“Panthers should discover if Bryce Young is their franchise quarter,” said Parson. “By adding another talented broad receiver, the move considerably helps the organization to determine what it has in the overall choice n ° 1 of 2023 as soon as possible.
“McMillan is a large receiver with good fluid hips to sink and get out of the top of his routes. He is an exceptional top-to-head ball winner to become a high-volume receiver.”
The 33rd team
Take: Mykel Williams, Edge, Georgia
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Author:: James Foster
Take: Stacking the rushers of the first round after Abdul Carter is a challenge, but I think the NFL will be much higher on Mykel Williams that people expect.
He has a long athletic setting and is already an exceptional race defender. Although it is a development rusher, it is much more technically advanced than Shemar Stewart (Bow Bar) and played all 2024 season on a tracked ankle. There are reasons to be optimistic that the best football in Williams is ahead of him.
The ringtone
Take: Mike Green, Edge, Marshall
Author:: Diante Lee
Take: I love it when a smaller school prospect has significant production; This facilitates the evaluation to base a projection on the lines alone. Mike Green had an incredible season of 2024 in Marshall, with nearly 40 plated combined for losses and bags, and I suspect that he would have run 40 meters under 4.6 seconds and jumped well if he participated in exercises with the combine harvester. Green has a well -developed passes overcoming skill for a player who only started a few seasons, and he plays the race decently despite his lower weight.
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Carolina has a major need for high -end rushers, and if they adopt this opportunity to take green here in the top 10, there is no guarantee that a defensive perspective with a similar advantage would even be available by their next choice.
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This article originally appeared on Panthers Wire: Panthers Mock Draft Roundup 8.0: follow -up of the latest projections 2025
