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Carolina's First Pick (1 Viewer)

they should trade down! (like practically every other team that has ever picked #1)

One of Bowers, Dareus or Fairley would help them a lot. I'd even take Green over a QB.

This reminds me of 2005 when there wasn't a QB worth taking #1 but the team needed one so they reached. 6 years later, Alex Smith hasn't shown much while the majority of the other top 12 picks have done fairly well. Same thing could happen here.
what if they picked Aaron Rodgers instead?
I commented on this earlier. With all due respect to Rodgers, I wonder how much of his success is due to sitting 3 years, Favre and his coaches. Probably not so much Favre but the other two are huge factors.
Yeah, Rodgers wasn't a top pick. Sure he wasn't worthy of being the last in the first round or whatever he was, but first rounders need to play quicker than Rodgers did. I don't know his contract, but I would take a guess that Green Bay paid him 20-30 mil before he even was truly their QB. That's just too much, with a salary cap and three years is a real long time in the NFL world.Since it's the Pack and all I think people are also forgetting that if your team has the top pick, you stink. You are literally the worst. If Rodgers were drafted by the worst team, they'd be picking first again the next year maybe two. The worst team needs immediate help.
$20-30 million? For the 24th pick in the draft?His rookie contract was only worth $7.7 million over 5 years (2005). Pretty small investment for the return. Teams do not need immediate help in the 1st round. The NFL isn't playing fantasy redraft here.

 
Don Banks offered up these tidbits: http://sportsillustr...l#ixzz1GHJEAtg6

-- A league source threw a little water on my projection of Missouri quarterback Blaine Gabbert to the Panthers at No. 1. He said Carolina doesn't really love Gabbert at this point, and doesn't feel as if he's accurate enough outside of the hash marks and deep downfield. Then again, with Gabbert not throwing at the combine, his chance to go first overall is probably riding on how he performs at the Tigers' pro day on March 17. Let him light it up there and Carolina's opinion might change rapidly. Especially if Cam Newton's game continues to be dissected, with flaws identified.

-- Don't think this is really news, but Carolina general manager Marty Hurney is said to be the only one in the building in Charlotte who still believes 2010 second-round pick Jimmy Clausen might be up to the task of handling the Panthers starting job. Everyone else in Carolina, and many coaches and personnel men around the league for that matter, thinks the Panthers have to draft a franchise quarterback this year.
 

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