Last week, Carolina Panthers head coach Ron Rivera used a word about second-year tackle Taylor Moton that he never had before, at least publicly.

“Mauler.”

Moton, who started Thursday’s victory over Buffalo in place of the injured Daryl Williams, is one of the biggest guys on the team at 6-foot-5 and 291 pounds. A former accounting major at Western Michigan, he’s among the smartest, too. Both were reasons the Panthers drafted him in the second round in 2017.

But the guy ahead of him, Williams, had a second-team All-Pro kind of year in 2017.

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