It’s been a tough start to the NFL career of running back Jonathon Brooks and unfortunately it’s only looking to get even more difficult for the 2024 second-round pick. Per several reports, the Panthers are placing Brooks on the physically unable to perform list, effectively ending his 2025 season before it even began.
Brooks, who entered the NFL rehabbing a lower-body injury after being drafted out of Texas a year ago, played sparingly as a rookie before suffering a torn ACL in Week 14 of the 2024 season. With the injury occurring so late in the season, it looks like Carolina did not want to risk any sort of a rushed timetable and have decided to give him well over a year and half to recover from his latest injury.