The Carolina Panthers are one of the biggest sleeping giants ahead of the 2025 NFL season. In Year 2 of the Dave Canales experiment, both the team and fan base are expecting to be much improved and make a run at an NFC South title.
This offseason, they secured a major piece of their future by extending Jaycee Horn on a massive four-year, $100 million deal. While Mike Jackson Sr. will be a solid supplementary player in the secondary, Horn and Derrick Brown are the centerpieces of the defense.
Carolina still needed to add some talent to the back end of their roster ahead of Week 1, however, as injuries are far too frequent in the NFL to not have a strong contingency plan.