Panthers wideout Stephen Hill cited for drug paraphernalia

Carolina PanthersOh, coaches around the NFL can’t get their players into training camp fast enough.

According to WSOC in Charlotte, Panthers wide receiver Stephen Hill has been cited for a drug paraphernalia charge during a traffic stop in nearby Concord. The Panthers report to camp tomorrow.

Hill, a former Jets second-rounder, was on the fringes of the Panthers depth chart anyway, and this can’t help. Even in a landscape barren of downfield threats last year, he never made much of an impact.

They’ve said nice things about him through the preseason, but with Kelvin Benjamin’s breakout rookie season and their own second-rounder in Devin Funchess, Hill was going to to struggle to be a factor…