Dan Morgan isn't running a charity. He's running a business, and it's been a long time since the Carolina Panthers were treated as such.
The general manager is a ruthless roster builder. Anyone not buying into the team's new ethos or displaying the necessary progress is shown the door. Again, this is the correct (and only) way to bring the Panthers out of the football wilderness and back to respectability.
And that leaves one draft pick from the previous regime potentially out of chances heading into training camp.
Carolina had to prioritize its defense this offseason.