Safety
The Panthers made some baffling moves this offseason. While it wasn’t nearly as bad as releasing a former MVP quarterback and getting nothing in return, cutting Eric Reid did not make any sense. From a football perspective, he was a quality starter who played most of the 2019 season injured. Cutting him made an already bad salary cap situation even worse.
Releasing Colin Jones (a special teams ace) did not help, either.
It sounds like Matt Rhule plans to start Juston Burris at strong safety in Reid’s place. That’s a gamble that might or might not pay off. Just in case it doens’t work out, the Panthers need to pick up another safety at some point.
As far as we’re aware, Lenoir-Rhyne’s Kyle Dugger is the only safety prospect they have shown any interest in this year. This probably means they don’t consider safety to be a need like we do, but there’s a good chance they will try to hit two birds with one stone by picking a slot cornerback who can also fill this hole like Clemson’s K’Von Wallace.