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Panthers Injury Report & Transactions – Week 12

The Carolina Panthers front office is busy throughout the season with transactions, roster moves, and injury updates. Here’s what’s happening at Mint Street this week. Injuries The 6-5 Carolina Panthers have a golden opportunity to prove they’re for real as they travel to San Francisco to take on the 7-4 49ers on Monday Night Football. At this […]

19 days ago | 0 reads

Reacts Results: It always feels good to beat the Falcons

With a win over the Atlanta Falcons, back above .500, and fresh off a franchise-record setting performance by quarterback Bryce Young, the Carolina Panthers are nearing their season high in fan confidence once again. 84% of fans are confident in the direction of their favorite franchise in Week 12. This is the fourth week that […]

19 days ago | 1 read

CSR Weekend Warriors: 11/21-11/23

Greetings, Panthers fans. Welcome to the weekend. Feel free to use this thread to chat about (almost) anything you want: video games, food, movies, non-football sports, you name it. As long as it’s allowed by the site’s ToS, it’s fair game here. You know the drill. This is now an open thread

20 days ago | 0 reads

NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year predictions: Tetairoa McMillan or Emeka Egbuka?

The NFL’s Offensive Rookie of the Year race in 2025 runs through the NFC South. It’s one of the more unpredictable elements of an already wild season. What began preseason seeming like a lock for running back Ashton Jeanty has now settled in to being a two-horse race between a pair of wide receivers, both […]

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20 days ago | 1 read

Brian Answers: Can Bryce Young end the Panthers playoff drought?

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! We’re coming off a confusing last two weeks of Panthers football, so the questions you’ve been asking have been all over the place. Personally, I love it. We’re certainly having a better time this season than in years past. […]

20 days ago | 1 read

Panthers vs 49ers: Offensive Preview

Just when the Carolina Panthers were down and out and it looked like Bryce Young’s career was on the ropes, Young and the Panthers went into Atlanta and put forth their best passing display of Young’s career and the entire franchise’s history. Young finished with a Panthers record 448 yards passing. Tetairoa McMillan accounted for […]

21 days ago | 3 reads

Bryce Young and Tetairoa McMillan win weekly awards

The Carolina Panthers swept the FedEx Air and Ground Players of the Week award this past week. Young also won NFC Offensive Player of the Week. Young set a Panthers franchise record with 448 passing yards in a win over the Falcons on Sunday. He had 396 yards in regulation, and then a single pass […]

21 days ago | 1 read

Panthers vs 49ers: The defense faces a tall task vs 49ers weapons

Hello CSR! We’re back onto the next game after the Panthers miraculous overtime win over the Falcons that once again put them into the NFC playoff conversation. Their defense struggled mightily against Bijan Robinson last week, allowing two big touchdowns that put them down by two scores going into halftime. Luckily, the Panthers managed to […]

21 days ago | 0 reads

2026 NFL Draft Prospect Profile: Arvell Reese

Even though the 2025 NFL season just started, it’s never too early to look ahead toward the 2026 NFL Draft. This weekly series will take a closer look at some of the prospects the Carolina Panthers could select in the 2026 iteration of the Draft. In this series, we’ll only be looking at prospects the […]

22 days ago | 0 reads

Panthers Reacts Survey Week 12

The Carolina Panthers have been up and they’ve been down. Bryce Young is setting franchise records and we still don’t trust him. Injuries and inconsistency has kept us from gaining a complete, predictive picture of who this team really is. All we know for certain is that, at 6-5, they have exceeded their win total […]

22 days ago | 1 read

Panthers vs Falcons game review: Who even knows anymore

After a putrid performance versus the New Orleans Saints I described Bryce Young as a ’conservative yet still turnover prone passer whose skillset heavily limits the ceiling and creativity of an offense’. Public perception and confidence of the quarterback had hit a season long low, and the team was heading for a game against the […]

23 days ago | 1 read

Ask Brian: The Panthers do the opposite of what I expect

Hello CSR! Welcome to Ask Brian, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! What a wild rollercoaster the last few weeks have been. Just last week, the narrative around these parts and the internet in general was that Bryce Young was not, in fact, THE guy. Most of the conversations on the […]

23 days ago | 0 reads

Is “Good Bryce” just a flash in the pan?

Bryce Young set a franchise record yesterday for passing yards and he did it on the road against the Atlanta Falcons. After a season of struggling to move the ball through the air, that felt good to watch. Young’s ascendance would make an excellent storyline through the holidays as he spurs a nationally overlooked team […]

24 days ago | 0 reads

The Optimist: Did Bryce Young just revive his career?

Seriously, what was that? It was easier to believe last week that Bryce Young was avoiding his wide receivers like they owed him money than it was to believe he was so bad at passing that he could only post 124 yards against a New Orleans Saints team that only had eyes for running back […]

24 days ago | 0 reads

Carolina Panthers vs San Francisco 49ers opening odds

Fresh off a convincing win on the road against the Atlanta Falcons, the 6-5 Carolina Panthers are headed to California to take on the San Francisco 49ers in their first primetime game since Bryce Young’s rookie season. The Panthers are underdogs, of course, for the Week 12 Monday Night Football appearance. Consistency and quality haven’t […]

24 days ago | 0 reads

The Scratching Post: 11/17-11/21

Greetings, internet users. Welcome to The Scratching Post. Feel free to use this thread to chat about (almost) anything you want: video games, food, movies, non-football sports, you name it. As long as it’s allowed by the site’s ToS, it’s fair game here. You know the drill. This is now an open thread

24 days ago | 1 read

Recap and Reaction: Panthers take Falcons down in overtime

Bryce Young played perhaps the best game of his career as he led the Carolina Panthers to an overtime win over the Atlanta Falcons. First Quarter A holding penalty on the first play of the game effectively ended their first drive before it got started. After the punt, the Panthers embarked on what’s been somewhat […]

25 days ago | 0 reads

Panthers vs Falcons: Live fan discussion for NFL Week 11

Last week, the Carolina Panthers were riding high off of a tough road win against the Green Bay Packers. A +.500 record and an easy home opponent on the horizon had us all thinking playoffs. Then the lowly New Orleans Saints sold out against the run and dared Bryce Young to do anything at all […]

25 days ago | 0 reads

CSR Weekend Warriors: 11/14-11/16

Greetings, Panthers fans. Welcome to the weekend. Feel free to use this thread to chat about (almost) anything you want: video games, food, movies, non-football sports, you name it. As long as it’s allowed by the site’s ToS, it’s fair game here. You know the drill. This is now an open thread

27 days ago | 3 reads

Panthers Injury Report & Transactions – Week 11

The Carolina Panthers front office is busy throughout the season with transactions, roster moves, and injury updates. Here’s what’s happening at Mint Street this week. Injury Report The Panthers injury report this week looks pretty clean, all things considered. Two players have been rules out for Sunday in safety Lathan Ransom and linebacker Trevin Wallace. Ransom has […]

27 days ago | 1 read

Brian Answers: Is a change coming at quarterback?

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! As I expected, most of the questions that came in this week were heavily centered around the future of Bryce Young, and by association the future of the coaching staff. We mixed in some Christmas fun along the way […]

27 days ago | 3 reads

Panthers vs Falcons: Offensive Preview

Normally as the season goes on, the NFL picture becomes clearer and we start to get a good idea of who’s who and what every team is capable of. For the most part, we’ve reached that point in the season, but there are a handful of teams that seem to provide an unpredictable grab bag […]

28 days ago | 4 reads