Barring any unforeseen trade the Carolina Panthers will select eighth in the NFL Draft but with a few different needs, who becomes the newest Panther remains a mystery. Today, two of the more prominent names in draft industry, Mel Kiper Jr. of ESPN, and Daniel Jeremiah of the NFL Network both released their first mock drafts of the season. Typically, this early on, a lot of debate comes about as the two will have slightly different variations of who will be taken by each team. However, for Carolina both had Leonard Fournette, running back from LSU..
Jeremiah wrote:
“The Panthers need to take some pressure off of Cam Newton, and that’s exactly what Fournette would do.