The Carolina Panthers saw the 2023 season out with a win over the New Orleans Saints, and it only cost them one spot in the 2023 NFL draft. You’d have to be trying to complain about that. It was a wild season, made all the more so by the moderate successes of interim head coach Steve Wilks and the remarkably quiet—until yesterday—play of Sam Darnold in the latter half of the season.
Panthers fans were in a race for the number one overall pick when former head coach Matt Rhule was fired after a Week 5 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.