Carolina Panthers: Remmers Return = More Draft Flexibility
The Carolina Panthers have brought back free agent tackle Mike Remmers to soothe a need before the Draft.
The Carolina Panthers added another component to their retention project when Dave Gettleman extended a 2.5 million dollar tender to restricted free agent Mike Remmers. The tackle signed the tender yesterday and so the line seems a little stiffer than it did a day ago.
Resigning Remmers means that the Panthers believe the solution to their offensive line problem is on the roster right now. It will either be Remmers or possibly second year man Daryl Williams if Williams can win the job in camp.
Remmers had one bad game last year and it happened to be against Von Miller in the Super Bowl. The Panthers are betting that Remmers can learn from that experience instead of that game exposing limits to the tackle’s game as a whole.
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With Remmers back, the Panthers have brought back the entire starting offensive line. The depth may still be a question since Fernando Velasco signed elsewhere and Nate Chandler was cut. Amini Silatolu remains unsigned and is meeting with the San Francisco 49ers. Still, this does not place the Panthers in a position for a first round lineman, but they could easily take one or two in the later rounds.
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Of course this fits with the Panthers strategy of drafting the Best Player Available assuming of course that player is not Paxton Lynch. The Panthers draft needs at this point are things like lineman depth, fourth defensive end, maybe a dime back, running back, a fifth receiver, so basically the Panthers could do just about anything and it would make sense.
The only real predictor of what Gettleman might do would be what the Giants did in the mid-2000s and that was to fill the field with pass rushers. So that is still the most likely outcome of the Panthers’ first round pick.
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The NFL draft is getting closer, and it will take place on April 28 for the first round.