There’s a famous saying about football teams with a struggling quarterback: Nobody’s more popular than the backup quarterback.
Around these parts that makes Matt Corral, the former Ole Miss star whom the Panthers selected at No. 94 in the third round this year, a popular man. Carolina’s front office gave up a 2023 third round pick to move up to from the fourth round in the 2022 draft to land Corral so they must have some faith in him. Corral’s slide into the third round was somewhat unexpected as many mock drafts had him going somewhere in the mid- to late-first round.